CODE 55897 ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 1 TEORIE E TECNICHE DELLA MEDIAZIONE INTERLINGUISTICA 8741 (L-12) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/11 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER Annual TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW Course title a) Novelists and poets in in 20th century Italian society” b) Modern Italian history in the pages of Ligurian writers Prerequisits Knowledge of the general tendencies in Italian literature and history from Unification to 2000 AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES This course is intended to broaden students’ knowledge of contemporary Italian literature, to get them accustomed to doing critical reading and to be familiar with the phenomena of literary creativity in relation with publishing and cultural reviews. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES This course will take into account both the relationship between Italian culture and that of foreign countries, and the interaction literature has with other art forms, with the most significant developments in society and with 20th century Italian life. After this introductory part, students will work on the prose and poetry of Ligurian writers who have depicted the main social and historical developments of Post-Unification Italy. TEACHING METHODS 54 hours of lessons corresponding to 9 cfu SYLLABUS/CONTENT a) Novelists and poets in 20th century Italian society” b) Modern Italian history in the pages of Ligurian writers. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Required in order to facilitate exam preparation a) Francesco De Nicola, Il Novecento letterario italiano, Genova, De Ferrari; read the entire book (any edition): Il cappello del prete by Emilio De Marchi; Conversazione in Sicilia di Elio Vittorini; Una questione privata di Beppe Fenoglio, Il nome della rosa di Umberto Eco plus one other novel among those cited in class. b) Maria Teresa Caprile-Francesco De Nicola, “Italia chiamò…”, Genova, De Ferrari, 2010; Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Da Quarto al Volturno, Sestri Levante, Gammarò; 2010; Carlo Pastorino, La prova della fame, ivi, 2016; Flavia Steno, “Sissignora”, Genova, De Ferrari, 2017. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD FRANCESCO DE NICOLA Exam Board FRANCESCO DE NICOLA (President) MARIA TERESA CAPRILE STEFANO FERNANDO VERDINO LESSONS Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The oral exam in the summer, fall and winter exam sessions will include questions on the poetry and novels that were explained in class. Students will be asked to read, historically contextualize and comment on the poems studied in class and to focus on some of the novels in the bibliography to connect them to the issues and matters of literary history approached in class. Students must use correct Italian, which is appropriate to the university context, with a broad vocabulary. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 24/01/2019 09:30 GENOVA Orale 07/02/2019 09:30 GENOVA Orale 11/06/2019 09:30 GENOVA Orale 03/07/2019 09:30 GENOVA Orale 03/09/2019 09:30 GENOVA Orale 18/09/2019 09:30 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION This course is required for first-year TTMI students. It is recommended for students, especially non-Italians, who intend to focus their studies on Contemporary Italian Literature through the study of the most important cultural issues of the 20th century and the most significant works of poetry, which will be explained in class.
