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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Romance and Latin American Studies
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Manuela Consonni
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday 14:00-15:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Manuela Consonni
Course/Module description:
Beginning with a reconstruction of the characteristics that define Primo Levi as intellectual and writer and Primo Levi as witness, from his formative years up to his death, the course aims to elucidate, highlight and clarify the close link in his work between writing and testimony. Levi’s artistic and ethical writing come together in, and give shape to, an anthropological approach to writing, in which the narrative choice of using testimony reaches it greatest expressive heights. The structure established by Levi’s use of testimony is, therefore, both a narrative device as well as a record of the survivor’s historical experience: indeed, testimony is the only device that enables him to write about the human species at Auschwitz and after Auschwitz.
Course/Module aims:
To provide students with an overview of one of the most important author and witness in world history.
To develop analytic tools for understanding the relation between narratological structure, memory and writing. Primo Levi developed a unique strategy of writing from his experience in Auschwitz to more sophisticated mode of literary telling and writing, creating a paradigmatic structure that changed the witness story as well as the status of the story teller.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To master the broad corpus of chosen sources that will be tackled along the course.
To describe and to differentiate among the different sources and the different disciplines to which the same sources belong.
To enable analyzes, to develop critical questions, to recognize the different genres of corpus of study.
To compare texts by different authors and from different genres.
To criticize, evaluate, interpret the scientific articles of the different authors and to explain their meaning in the context of the discussion.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Seminar for graduate and post-graduate students
Course/Module Content:
סמסטר א'
שיעור ראשון :
מבוא לקורס : פרימו לוי ואומנות הכתיבה ואומנות הזיכרון
שיעור שני, שלישי, רביעי :
סטיוארט יוז, "הכימאי פרימו": "משורר" מחנה הריכוז, אסירי התקווה. "תור הכסף" של יהודי איטליה 1974-1924, עמ' 70-61, עמ' 89-79.
Ian Thomson, Primo Levi, London : Hutchinson, 2002, pp. 6-129.
Primo Levi & Tullio Regge, Dialogo, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1989, 68 pp.
Sergio Parussa, ‘The Modesty of Starbuck. On Hybrids, Judaism and Ethics in Primo Levi’, Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008, pp. 132-166.
שיעור חמישי, שישי :
מרקו בלפוליטי, עורך, פרימו לוי, שיחות וראיונות : 1987-1963, תל אביב : עם עובד, 2007 :עמ' 17-9, עמ' 92-71, עמ' 108-106, עמ' 115-113, עמ' 141-132, עמ' 238-203, עמ' 266-249, עמ' 284-271.
שיער שביעי :
Gillian Banner, ‘Primo Levi’, Holocaust Literature Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence, London : Vallentine Mitchell, 2000, pp. 87-131.
שיעור שמיני :
פרימו לוי, הזהו אדם?, תל אביב : עם עובד, 1988.
פרימו לוי, ההפוגה, תל אביב : ספרית פועלים 1963.
פרימו לוי, השוקעים והניצולים, תל אביב : עם עובד, 1989.
שיעור תשעי :
פרימו לוי, מפתח כוכב, תל אביב : קיבוץ מאוחד, 1991.
שיעור עשירי :
Primo Levi, The Sixth Day, New York, Summit Books, 1990 :
‘The Mnemogogues’, pp. 11-18; ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge’, pp. 55-71; ‘For a Good Purpose’, pp. 174-181; ‘His Own Blacksmith : to Italo Calvino’, pp. 195-202.
שיעור אחד-עשר :
Primo Levi, Other People Trades, London : Michael Joseph, 1989:
‘The Invisible World’, pp. 47-51; ‘Why does one write?’, pp. 63-65; ‘Stable/Unstable’, pp. 96-99; ‘The Language of Chemist (I), pp. 100-106; ‘The Language of Chemist (II)’, pp. 106-110; ‘On Obscure Writing’, pp. 157-163.
שיעור שנים-עשר :
Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve, New York : Penguin Books, 1995: ‘Rappaport’s Testament’, pp. 1-8; ‘The Juggler’, pp. 9-16; ‘Lilith”, pp. 17-26; ‘The Cantor and the Barrack Chief’, pp. 47-54; ‘Last Christmas of War’, pp. 55-66; ‘Lorenzo’s Return’, pp. 107-118; ‘Story of a Coin’, pp. 119-128.
שיעור שלושה-עשר :
Berel Lang, Primo Levi : the Matter of Life, New Haven : Jewish Lives, 2013, 173 pp.
Mirna Cicioni, Primo Levi : Bridges of Knowledge, Oxford : Berg, 1995, 222 pp. : ‘My Own Stories, Other People’s, Everybody’s and Nobody’s’, pp. 55-101.
שיעור ארבעה-עשר :
דיון וסיכום
Required Reading:
Berel Lang, Primo Levi : the Matter of Life, New Haven : Jewish Lives, 2013, 173 pp.
Mirna Cicioni, Primo Levi : Bridges of Knowledge, Oxford : Berg, 1995, 222 pp. : ‘My Own Stories, Other People’s, Everybody’s and Nobody’s’, pp. 55-101.
Ian Thomson, Primo Levi, London : Hutchinson, 2002, pp. 6-129.
Primo Levi & Tullio Regge, Dialogo, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1989, 68 pp.
Additional Reading Material:
none
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
none
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