OVERVIEW

This course of Italian Literature (fraz. C) is designed specifically for students of Modern Languages ​​and Cultures. Maintained and supported for many years, with considerable scientific effort, by Prof. Luigi Surdich, the teaching aims to offer a critical and mature approach by the freshmen to the study of a major European literature, taking a journey through authors and texts of the utmost importance, both Italian and supranational.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide a picture of the Italian literary tradition from its origins onwards using exemplary texts, with reference to the different styles and genres, to the analysis of texts and cultural contexts, and to relations with foreign cultures.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Acquisition of historiographical expertise on Italian literary history. Ability to analyse a literary text (narrative and poetic) through the tools of paraphrase and commentary (metrics –rhetorical figures - content). Enhancement of written and oral communication skills. Study of the relationships between Italian and European cultures literature. 

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lessons, textual commentary (students are required to attend classes with the books that will be indicated for every lesson).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Written exam:

1.            Dante Alighieri, La Commedia della politica: Inferno VI, X, XIX, XXVII, XXXIII; Purgatorio III, V, VI, XVI; Paradiso VI, XVII, XXVII (1-66) (28 ore).

2.            Selected readings from XIIIth to XVIIth literature (15,16 ) availables on Aulaweb. History of literature of this period is requested.

Oral exam:

4.  Novel and pamphlet face to history, in 19th and 20th century Italian literature and in the european context.

Alessandro Manzoni Storia della colonna infame ( introduction by L. Sciascia); Federico de Roberto, I Vicerè; Leonardo Sciascia, Il consiglio d'Egitto.  Two of these three books: Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata; Cesare Pavese, La casa in collina; Italo Calvino, La giornata di uno scrutatore

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Texts available in Aulaweb
• Dante, Divina Commedia (suggested editions: a cura di A.M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori, edizione recente; a cura di U. Bosco e G. Reggio, Milano, Le Monnier)
• Carlo Vecce, Piccola Storia della letteratura italiana, Napoli, Liguori, 2 voll, 2013 (selected chapters will be indicated in class).
• Alessandro Manzoni, Storia della colonna infame, any edition; Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata, Torino, Einaudi, 2014; Italo Calvino, La giornata di uno scrutatore, Milano, Mondadori, 2012 and recent ed.;  Cesare Pavese, La casa in collina, Torino, Einaudi, recent edition; L. Sciascia, Il consiglio d'Egitto, Milano, Adelphi, recent edition.
• Non attending students will study selected chapters of Gino Tellini, Storia del romanzo italiano, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SIMONA MORANDO (President)

MATTEO NAVONE

FRANCESCO SORRENTI

STEFANO FERNANDO VERDINO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

October 18th, 2017

Class schedule

ITALIAN LITERATURE C

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written exam (Dante; anthology of 13th-17th century texts): students will be asked to paraphrase some extracts ant to answer to some essay questions.

Oral exam (Novels of 19th and 20th century Italian literature). Oral exam can be taken after the written exam has been successfully passed.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written exam: acquisition of text analysis skills; writing skills in Italian

Oral exam: text analysis skills; knowledge of Italian cultural and literary history

FURTHER INFORMATION

Non-attending students are requested to contact the teacher and to register for the course in aulaweb