Unit ITALIAN LITERATURE
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- 35032609
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Chiara Piola Caselli
- Teachers
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- Chiara Piola Caselli
- Hours
- 54 ore - Chiara Piola Caselli
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Lingua e letteratura italiana
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/10
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is aimed at presenting and discussing a general survey of History of Italian Literature from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth century. At class meetings, main works by a selected number of relevant authors will be read and commented. Progressively, wherever needed, the techniques and the scientific tools required for the critical analysis (including elements of prosody, philology, and bibliography) will be introduced and utilised. The lectures will also cover notions of history of literary criticism, particularly in connection with the authors and the texts presented.
- Reference texts
- ATTENDING STUDENTS:
A) General and historical-literary part. The reference textbook is the following one: Alberto Casadei, Marco Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Bari, Laterza, 2016.
B) Anthological part: students can refer to to the lecture notes which will be available, prior to the class meetings, on the unistudium website.
NON ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Students unable to attend regularly the class meetings are kindly requested to get in touch with the Professor via e-mail (chiara.piolacaselli@unipg.it) or coming in person to the Professor’s office at the office hours (Palazzo San Bernardo – Via degli Offici 14, third floor). The office hours schedule will be soon available on the University website. - Educational objectives
- The course is aimed at providing a basic knowledge of the history of the Italian literature spanning from the Thirteenth to the early Nineteenth century, by means of a thorough analysis of a body of selected works. At the end of the course and following individual study, the students are expected to master all the basic elements and notions of literature history, including literary movements and their protagonists. Students are also expected to demonstrate their ability to analyse critically all the anthological texts, providing a clear contextualization within the authors’ lives and works, and pointing out their stylistic and formal specificities. Moreover, at the oral examination, the students’ presentation skills and ability to use an appropriate technical vocabulary will be assessed.
- Prerequisites
- Adequate elements of Italian literature, according to secondary school programs.
A good knowledge of written and spoken Italian.
The (First Year) Italian literature exam may be taken only if the Italian language qualification has been obtained first, passing the preliminary test that takes place in the First Semester. Such test consists of some open-ended and closed-ended questions, aimed at assessing the knowledge of the orthography and of the grammar, as well as the competences in the elaboration of written texts. If a student fails the preliminary test, then he/she has to attend the Italian language laboratory (25 hours) held in Semester One. At the end of the laboratory, the student will be allowed to take again the preliminary test. The date and time of the preliminary test, as well as the calendar of the Italian language laboratory lessons will be communicated on the Department's website: www.lettere.unip.it. - Teaching methods
- The course consists of frontal lectures focusing on the historical-critical overview and the analysis of a selected body of relevant classics of the literature. The lectures will be supported by Power Point presentations in order to ease and enhance the understanding and the memorization of the key concepts. Every other week, an optional practical class on the topics covered until that point in the delivery will be scheduled on the unistudium platform.
- Other information
- Attendance is highly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- For regularly attending students, the exam consists of two parts: a 60-minute long written test, and a 30-minute long oral test. The written test is a prerequisite for being admitted to the oral test. The written test will assess the students’ knowledge of the part of the programme to be prepared on the textbook. The oral test will assess the knowledge and the level of understanding of the textbooks included in the anthological selection. The oral test will verify knowledge and full understanding of those textbooks which are included in the anthological selection (B).
The final mark is given by the average of the individual marks obtained at the written and at the oral tests. A unique mark is registered.
For non-attending students, the exam consists solely of the oral test. - Extended program
- The course is aimed at providing and discussing a general survey of the History of the Italian Literature from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth century. The class meetings will focus on the main works of a selected number of relevant authors. Progressively, wherever needed, the techniques and the scientific tools required for the critical analysis (including elements of prosody, philology, and bibliography) will be introduced and utilised. The lectures will also cover notions of history of literary criticism, particularly in connection with the authors and the texts presented.
A detailed lesson syllabus will be available, prior to the beginning of the course, on the unistudium platform.