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CODE 65076
ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/12
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester

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: history and problems of the notion of style; b) identify the most important formal traits of the poetic text  and narrative text of the 20th century; c) reveal the possess of the appropriate terminology for the analysis of formal facts; d) 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: The notion of style. Analysis of poetic texts of the twentieth century Italian.

3 CFU: Analysis of narrative texts of the twentieth century Italian.

 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For the bibliography see le list of texts indicated in the section of the Italian language teaching sheet.

The course handout and notes will be made available to students on Aulaweb.

Non-attending students should contact the professor.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First semester: October 1, 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.

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.