The course broadens the institutional knowledge acquired during the three-year degree course with a monograph approach.
Analysing knowledge of the history of the Italian language with particular attention to the ancient language, non-standard variations of Italian, literary Italian and issues of style and metrics.
At the end of the course, students should be able to a) recognize the topics discussed during the lectures: onomatopoeic terms, interjections, forms of deixis and unsaid, discourse markers in Italian; b) analyze, in oral and written texts, the linguistic and stylistic features of the phenomena listed above.
The student must possess the following basic skills: notions of history of Italian language and historical grammar and knowledge of the essential bibliography of the discipline. In short: the basic knowledge acquired in each three-year history of the Italian language course.
Lectures
The course is divided into two parts.
6 CFU: Young Montale's lexis and intertextuality (Ossi di seppia 1925).
3 CFU: Paolo Volponi's Corporale language and style.
Per i frequentanti (il punto 1 vale per i 6 CFU; 1 punti 1 e 2 per i 9 CFU):
1) - Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia (qualunque edizione)
- Paolo Zublena, Lingua e metrica, in Montale, a cura di P. Marini e N. Scaffai, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 169-191;
- dispensa a cura del docente su lessico e intertestualità del primo Montale.
2) - Paolo Volponi, Corporale, Torino, Einaudi (qualunque edizione);
- dispensa a cura del docente su lingua e stile di Corporale
The course handout and notes will be made available to students on Teams and possibly on Aulaweb.
Non-attending students should contact the professor.
Ricevimento: Tuesday and Wednesday, h 16.30-18 DIRAAS, via Balbi 2 (third floor) In any case, please book your appointment by e-mail (paolo.zublena@unige.it).
PAOLO ZUBLENA (President)
MANUELA MANFREDINI
Second semester: February 18th 2025
Oral exam.
Acquired knowledge about course's themes and argumentation skills will be evaluated in the oral exam.
Students who have not taken a three-year course exam in History of the Italian Language or another course from the L-FIL-LET/12 sector must agree on an alternative programme with teaching staff.
