Teaching

The course will explore various aspect of the interaction between literature and the visual arts in Italy from the Middle Ages to the end of the Renaissance. The focus will be on the intersection between the literary and visual modes of perception in the works of representative Italian authors from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries. Restricted to newly-admitted first-year students.

This course will explore various facets of the interaction between literature and the visual arts in Italy, addressing questions such as: which kind of challenges do we face when attempting to look at word and image in one glance? What kind of elements lying in-between media can be of methodological interest? How can we theorize these intersections, overlaps, or gaps between the literary and visual domains? The instructor and the students will be engaged in a collaborative effort to devise a ‘word-and-image toolkit’, ready to use as direct application in individual research projects. The course will include a hands-on experience, consisting in four lab sessions held at the Thomas J. Fisher Rare Book Collection, The Kelly Library, and at the Art Gallery Of Ontario.