OVERVIEW

Basic university required course

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of this University Course is to give an idea of Italian literary tradition, from its origins to the actual days, with a particular eye to the different cultural typologies, interpretation of texts and contexts (musical, artistic, historical), and principally to the relationship with other foreign cultural systems.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Particular attention must be given to the development of the skill in written expression (summary; report; etc) and in the interpretation of the various themes - having always in mind the relationship between Italian and foreign literary culture.

TEACHING METHODS

frontal lessons

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

part for the written exam:

1.           txts - philology - metric - rhetoric - I generi letterari – Literary production center  –  How Italian potetics grew and flourished in the course of time, cfr: V. Magrelli, Millennium poetry (il Mulino) (home reading partly) (12 hours).

2.            L’Europa di Dante: inferno XXIX – Purgatorio VI, VII, XX – Paradiso VI – 12 hours

3.            L’Europa di Alfieri: Vita – 12 hours (home reading partly)

Part for the oral exam:

4.  The Europe of the contemporary Italian novel

Home reading of five novels chosen by te students: Svevo, Senilità - Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo – Brin, Olga a Belgrado –- Calvino, Il barone rampante - Tomasi, Il Gattopardo - Fenoglio, Una questione privata - Soldati, Lo smeraldo –  Rumiz, Trans Europa Express.

5. The prose of Sbarbaro :Trucioli 1941 e Autoritratto (involontario) di Elena Vivante (15 hours).

6. Meeting with a contemporary writer: Destini minori di Marco Ercolani (3 hours).

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography:

• Texts in aulaweb
• V. Magrelli, Millennium poetry, il Mulino.
• Dante, Commedia (any editions or online divinacommedia.weebly.com), limited to cantos examined.

-Vittorio Alfieri, Vita (edizione BUR o Garzanti, or online su aulaweb), Lettura integrale.

-Home reading of five novels chosen by te students:

-Svevo, Senilità - Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo – Brin, Olga a Belgrado –- Calvino, Il barone rampante - Tomasi, Il Gattopardo - Fenoglio, Una questione privata - Soldati, Lo smeraldo –  Rumiz, Trans Europa Express

-Camillo Sbarbaro, Trucioli 1941, Fondazione Devoto-ed. San Marco dei Giustiniani

-Autoritratto (involontario) di Elena Vivante de Bosis da sue lettere, Fondazione Devoto-ed. San Marco dei Giustiniani

-Marco Ercolani, Destini minori, Il canneto

For non-attending students:

                Annus mirabilis 1814-1815, a cura di M.Bacigalupo, D. Lovascio e S.Verdino, Roma, Aracne, 2012.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

STEFANO FERNANDO VERDINO (President)

SIMONA MORANDO

MATTEO NAVONE

LESSONS

Class schedule

ITALIAN LITERATURE A

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

written and oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

written examination:

praphase of the text (Dante) - Open questions (Magrelli . Alfieri) - literary orientatin scheme (authors and works of Italian literature)

oral examination:

analysis of the text (Sbarbaro) - Summary and Comparisons (Ercolani - Five novels)

Exam schedule