Unit CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35099206
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sandro Gentili
- Teachers
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- Sandro Gentili
- Hours
- 36 ore - Sandro Gentili
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature moderne
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/11
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Autors, works and periods of Italian literature from 1860 to 1945. Main genres (poems and short stories from 1860 to 1960). Main elements of literary criticism.
- Reference texts
- A.Casadei, M.Santagata, “Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Bari, Laterza, 2009
“Antologia della poesia italiana” diretta da C. Segre, C. Ossola, “Novecento, vol. I, Torino, Einaudi, 2003
P.V. Mengaldo, “Com’è la poesia”, Roma, Carocci, 2018 - Educational objectives
- The teaching is the main opportunity in the first three years to learn the design of contemporary Italian literature and to compete with the methodologies of analysis of literary texts. The main Knowledge should cover: 1) Knowledge of authors, works and periods of contemporary Italian literature; 2) Knowledge of the salient features of the mains genres; 3) Knowledge of the main elements of contemporary italian versification. The main skills will be: Knowing how to analyze and comment on a literary text, identifying the elements of content and highlighting the message.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand and to make a development of the knowledge of the literary concepts provided from teaching, you must have a basic knowledge of contemporary italian literature. This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students.
- Teaching methods
- The predominant teaching method consists of lectures in the classroom assisted, if necessary, by multimedia tools; or distance learning. It also provides exercises of text analysis.
- Other information
- reception hours: Wednesday, 11-13
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussione-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts. The test aimes at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of language and of exposure, what he has acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the peformance of the test itself.
- Extended program
- Italian poetry from Carducci to Montale: analysis and comment. Short stories by A. Boito, Verga, Pirandello, Tozzi, Moravia, Bassani. Knowledge of authors, works and periods of contemporary Italian literature.