OVERVIEW

The teaching is part of the Master Degree Course in Primary Education Sciences (24 hours, 4 ECTS). Through the reading of some main works of Italian literature we will study themes, styles and communication strategies of the literary texts focused on the educational skills of the Italian literature.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The main objective of the course is a focused analysis of those aspects and topics in the Italian literary production that best suit the specificities of Primary Education. Literature will be analyzed and presented as a privileged reflection of society, as a projection of the human condition, with special reference to the world of childhood, of maternity, of the feminine, in the complex interweaving of historic reality, sealed by the added value of artistic transfiguration

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Further objectives are: to educate students to the reading, the analysis and the interpretation of the Italian literary texts and to their historical and cultural heritage; to provide an adequate knowledge through which the students can design learning paths for primary school.

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge, at high school level, of the history of Italian literature.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and comments of Italian literay texts, also using multimedia tools. The course also provides students with learning tools (such as slides used during classes, supplementary or support materials) available in AulaWeb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Dante and his teachers: selected passages from the Divina Commedia.

«Essa verità, cominciata a insegnare ai fanciulli, fu accettata comunemente»: the teaching of the truth in Leopardi’s Operette morali and Canti (selected passages).

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography for attending students

Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, edited by Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori; or the text edited by Giorgio Inglese, Roma, Carocci; or the text edited by Bianca Garavelli, Milano, Bompiani (passages suggested during the lessons and on AulaWeb).

Giacomo Leopardi, Operette morali, edited by Laura Melosi, Milano, Rizzoli, 2011 (passages suggested during the lessons and on AulaWeb).

Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, edited by Franco Gavazzeni and Maria Maddalena Lombardi, Milano, Rizzoli (BUR), 1998 (passages suggested during the lessons and on AulaWeb).

All the students must study the texts and the support materials available on Aulaweb.

Supplementary bibliography for non-attending students

Giorgio Inglese, Dante: guida alla Divina Commedia, Roma, Carocci, 2012 (chapters 1, 2, 7).

Emilio Russo, Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017 (chapter 4).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LUCA BELTRAMI (President)

ROBERTO PELLEREY

LESSONS

LESSONS START

25 September 2018

Class schedule

ITALIAN LITERATURE

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam. The oral exam focuses on the program carried out during the lessons and on the related bibliography.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The oral exam consists of an interview on the topics discussed during the lessons, in order to evaluate the skills to contextualize a literary text in the frame of the Italian cultural history; to illustrate its metric-stylistic features; to make a correct paraphrase; to expose the contents with an appropriate language and to design learning paths for the primary school.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

All the students are requested to register for the course in AulaWeb.