Modulo
A
1)
Quattro hoax letterarie fra ottocento e novecento
— Edgar
Allan Poe, “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Phaall”
(1835); “Maelzel’s Chess-Player” (1836); “The Balloon Hoax”
(1844)
https://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
— L.
Walsh, “Poe’s Hoaxing and the Construction of Readerships”,
in Sins
Against Science. The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and
Others,
New York, State University of New York Press, 2006. pp. 51-119 (*)
— Mark
Twain, “The Petrified Man” (1862); “A Bloody Massacre Near
Carson” (1863); “A Touching Story of George Washington’s
Boyhood” (1867); A
Double-Barrelled Detective Story,
cap. IV, “Incipit” (1901).
— L.
Walsh, “Mark Twain and the Social Mechanics of Laughter”, in Sins
Against Science,
cit., pp. 121-171 (*)
— Emanuel
Morgan and Anne
Knisch [Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke], Spectra.
A Book of Poetic Experiments, New
York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1916
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26918/26918-h/26918-h.htm
— W.
J. Smith, “The Story”, in The
Spectra Hoax,
Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1961, pp. 3-70 (*)
— Clifford
Irving, Autobiography
of Howard Hughes (New
York, McGraw-Hill 1972) volume mandato al macero, nel .pdf fatto
circolare dall’autore, 20062 (*)
— K.
Young, “Spruce Goose”, in Bunk.
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists. Phonies, Post-Facts, and
Fake News,
Minneapolis, Gray Wolf, 2017, pp. 253-270 (*)
2)
Su hoax, fake news, post-verità, infodemia
— B.
McHale, “‘A
Poet May Not Exist’: Mock-Hoaxes and the Construction of National
Identity”,
in The
Faces of Anonymity: Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publication from the
Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century,
ed. by R. J.
Griffin, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 233-252 (*)
— M.
Zimdars, “Introduction” to Fake
News. Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age,
ed. by M. Zimdars and K. McLeod, Cambridge (Mass.), The MIT Press,
2020, pp. 1-17. (*)
Modulo
B
1)
Mezzo secolo di teoria e critica letteraria negli Stati Uniti
(1970-2020)
— P.
Barry, Beginning
Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory,
Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2017:
“Introduction” (pp. 1-10); “Structuralism” (pp. 40-60),
“Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction” (pp. 61-81), “Feminist
Criticism” (pp.123-140); “Queer Theory” (pp. 141-158);
“Postcolonial Criticism” (pp. 194-204); “Theory after Theory”
(pp. 304-341).
In
alternativa:
— Jonathan
Culler, Literary
Theory. A Very Short Introduction,
New York and London, Oxford University Press, 2011. pp. 1-146.
2)
Un saggio a scelta, fra i seguenti (in lingua originale o in
traduzione):
R.
Barthes, S/Z.
Paris, Seuils, 1970; Jonathan Culler, Structuralist
Poetics New York, Routledge, 1975;
H. Bloom, P. De Man, J. Derrida, G. Hartmann, J. Hillis
Miller, Deconstruction and
Criticism, New York, Seabury Press,
1979; G. Genette, Seuils,
Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1987; T. Eagleton, The
Ideology of Aesthetics, New York,
Routledge, 1990; S. Feldman, Testimony:
Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History,
New York, Routledge, 1992; B. McHale, Postmodernist
Fiction, New York, Routledge, 1996; A.
Jagose, Queer Theory; An
Introduction, New York, New York
University Press, 1996; C. Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt, Practicing
the New Historicism, Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 2000; A.
Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism,
New York, Rootledge, 2005; E. Rooney (ed.), The
Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory,
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006; G. Garrard, Ecocriticism,
New York, Routledge, 2011; J. Adamson, W. A. Gleason, D. N.
Pellow, Keywords for Environmental
Studies, New York, New
York University Press, 2016.
3)
L'affaire Sokal
— A.
Sokal, “Transgressing
the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics”, Social
Text, 46/47, Spring/Summer
1996,
pp. 217-252:
https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
—P.
Barry, “The Sokal Affair”, in Beginning
Theory,
cit., pp. 301-303 (*)
4)
L'affaire Boghossian/Pluckrose/Lindsay
— H.
Wilson, “Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity
at Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon”, Gender
Place & Culture,
22 May 2018 (articolo successivamente ritirato dalla pubblicazione
dopo l’annuncio pubblico che trattavasi di hoax):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cJLr_o04R-zpHcMNaIWPGs7Ue_i-tkCw
— Z.
Beauchamp, “The
Controversy around hoax studies in critical theory, explained”, Vox,
October 15, 2018:
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-studies-sokal-squared-hoax
Extra
Introduzione
sintetica alla letteratura angloamericana
— D.
Campbell, Brief
Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to
1920. http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/
Su
Clifford Irving
Film
con e su / Intervista a / Libri di Clifford Irving
— C.
Irving, Fake!
The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time,
New York, McGraw-Hill, 1969; The
Hoax,
New York, Permanent Press, 1981.
— K.
Kipling, “Behind
the Fake: An Interview with Author Clifford Irving”, Sarasota
Magazine,
May 30, 2014
https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/arts-and-entertainment/2014/05/behind-fake-interview-author-clifford-irving
— O.
Welles, F
For Fake! (1973)
— L.
Hallström, The
Hoax (2006).
Su
Fake News e Fact Checking
— Y.
Hope, A. Swenson, and A. Seitz, “Trump’s claims of vote rigging
are all wrong”, AP Fact Check, December 3, 2020:
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-ap-fact-check-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-49a24edd6d10888dbad61689c24b05a5
Sulla
hoax di Alain Sokal
— B.
Robbins, A. Ross, “Editorial Response to Sokal’s Hoax by the
Editors of Social
Texts” https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/SocialText_reply_LF.pdf
Tutte
le hoax di Boghossian, Pluckrose e Levin
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18
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