OVERVIEW

The course broadens the institutional knowledge acquired during the three-year degree course with a monograph approach.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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. 

PREREQUISITES

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. 

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

PAOLO ZUBLENA (President)

MANUELA MANFREDINI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester: February 18th 2025

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Acquired knowledge about course's themes and argumentation skills will be evaluated in the oral exam.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

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.