LEARNING OUTCOMES

Analysis of modern Italian literature (poetry, narrative prose, essays) both in relation to texts and critical methodology as well as a pondered historiographical setting. Broadening the critical perspective to take account of parallel experiences and experiments in the terrain of music and visual arts

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to achieve the following educational objectives: 1) knowledge of the evolution of Italian literary history of the last century, with particular attention to the fundamental junctions examined; 2) understanding of the mechanisms that regulate the "literary field", ie how a single work is placed with respect to the historical, critical and editorial context; 3) ability to analyze the interaction that is triggered between the literary text and the surrounding society, and how the former is a consequence of the second, but also represents an attempt to modify it.

At the end of the course the student is expected to have achieved the following results: 1) adequate knowledge of contemporary Italian literature; 2) a capacity for oral expression appropriate to the subject matter, with mastery of an appropriate vocabulary; 3) ability to analyze literary text; 4) ability to understand the interaction between literary text, social context and editorial.

PREREQUISITES

Essential prerequisite of teaching is a good ability to read and understand literary texts that allows access in autonomy to authors and works of the last century that will be the subject of monographic study during the lessons.

Students are advised to have taken the Italian literature I and II exams before attending this course.

All students are required to register on AulaWeb.

TEACHING METHODS

The teaching consists of lectures, with pc and projector, for a total of 60 hours.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Programme for students taking the course for 6 cfu

The program is divided into a general part and two in-depth monographs. The general part of the program refers to the whole history and texts of Italian literature of the last century: it will be treated in class for general lines and will be studied in depth by the student. The two in-depth monographs will focus on the following topics:

- Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana

- Beppe Fenoglio: a bibliographic path among the letters

Programme for students taking the course for 9 cfu

The program is divided into a general part and three in-depth monographs. The general part of the program refers to the whole history and texts of Italian literature of the last century: it will be treated in class for general lines and will be studied in depth by the student. The three in-depth monographs will focus on the following topics:

- Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana

- Beppe Fenoglio: a bibliographic path among the letters

- Italo Calvino between war and post-war

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Programme for students taking the course for 6 cfu

1) For the general part:

- Cento anni di letteratura 1910-2010, a cura di Marco A. Bazzocchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.

2) For the two in-depth monographs:

- Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, a cura di Giorgio Pinotti, Adelphi, Milano 2018.

- Beppe Fenoglio, Lettere 1940-1962, a cura di Luca Bufano, Torino, Einaudi, 2022.

- Beppe Fenoglio, I ventitre giorni della città di Alba (qualsiasi edizione in commercio).

- All materials uploaded to Aulaweb and / or Teams during the lessons.

NON-FREQUENTING STUDENTS are also required:

- Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Gadda: guida al Pasticciaccio, Carocci, Roma 2016.

- Piero Negri Scaglione, Questioni private. Vita incompiuta di Beppe Fenoglio, nuova edizione, Einaudi, Torino 2022

Programme for students taking the course for 9 cfu

1) For the general part:

- Cento anni di letteratura 1910-2010, a cura di Marco A. Bazzocchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.

2) For the three in-depth monographs:

- Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, a cura di Giorgio Pinotti, Adelphi, Milano 2018.

- Beppe Fenoglio, Lettere 1940-1962, a cura di Luca Bufano, Torino, Einaudi, 2022.

- Beppe Fenoglio, I ventitre giorni della città di Alba (qualsiasi edizione in commercio).

- Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, con il racconto inedito Flirt prima di battersi, a cura di Mario Barenghi, Milano, Mondadori, 2020.

- All materials uploaded to Aulaweb and / or Teams during the lessons.

NON-FREQUENTING STUDENTS are also required:

- Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Gadda: guida al Pasticciaccio, Carocci, Roma 2016.

- Piero Negri Scaglione, Questioni private. Vita incompiuta di Beppe Fenoglio, nuova edizione, Einaudi, Torino 2022.

- Silvio Perrella, Calvino, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010.