Modulo
A“Hoax
letterarie vs. fake news, infodemia, post-verità”Quattro
hoax letterarie fra xix e xx secolo (Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain,
Witter Bynner &
Arthur Davison Ficke, Clifford
Irving) a confronto con la retorica di fake news, infodemia e
post-verità.
Modulo
B“La
'teoria' e la sfida delle hoax accademiche”Teoria
e critica letteraria a confronto con la sfida posta dalle hoax di
Sokal e Boghossian / Pluckrose / Levin.

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”,
inSins
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”, inSins
Against Science,
cit., pp. 121-171 (*)
—Emanuel
MorganandAnne
Knisch [WitterBynner andArthur Davison Ficke],Spectra.
A Book of Poetic Experiments,New
York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1916https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26918/26918-h/26918-h.htm—W.
J. Smith, “The Story”, inThe
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”, inBunk.
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”,
inThe
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” toFake
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
PoeticsNew 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
YorkUniversityPress, 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”, inBeginning
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 to1920.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, 2014https://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 ofSocial
Texts”https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/SocialText_reply_LF.pdf

Tutte
le hoax di Boghossian, Pluckrose e Levinhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18

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