Percorsi di storia della letteratura italiana: l’epica cavalleresca

The course of Italian Literature lasts six weeks, is aimed in the first instance to students and high school teachers, with the aim to facilitate the post-secondary orientation. Especially it oriented to those who intend to subscribe to the departments of Humanities of the University of Foggia. The route will be shown the historical-literary gender epic chivalry, from the origins to the contemporary literature rewrites. The course aims to rebuild the fortune in medieval and humanistic Renaissance of the epic-chivalric genre and its reception and reinvention in the modern and contemporary periods, through transmedia and videogame products. Lessons will brief moments of presentation of the founding of the genre nodes and workshop activities like crossword puzzles, video games, online research and reading and interpretation laboratories.