Unit CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- GP005153
- Curriculum
- Lingue e letterature
- Teacher
- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Teachers
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- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Hours
- 36 ore - Stefano Giovannuzzi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/11
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The contemporary novel in Italy: between biography, history, noir. The course deals with Italian fiction of the Zero years with a historical background, focusing especially on the events of the Seventies and terrorism.
- Reference texts
- The course will focus on the following texts:
G. De Cataldo, Romanzo criminale, Torino, Einaudi, 2002.
L. Rastello, Piove all’insù, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2006.
F. Piccolo, Il desiderio di essere come tutti, Torino, Einaudi, 2015.
B. Arpaia, Il passato davanti a noi [2006], Milano, Guanda, 20192.
E. Albinati, La scuola cattolica, Milano, Rizzoli, 2016.
N. Ravera Rafele, Il senso della lotta, Roma, Fandango, 2017.
M. Gotor, L’Italia nel Novecento. Dalla sconfitta di Adua alla vittoria di Amazon, Torino, Einaudi, 2019 (una scelta di capitoli).
G. Benvenuti, Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2010.
R. Donnarumma, Storia, immaginario, letteratura: il terrorismo nella narrativa italiana (1969-2010), in Per Romano Luperini, a cura di P. Cataldi, Palermo, Palumbo, 2010.
Gianluigi Simonetti, Nostalgia dell’azione. La fortuna della lotta armata nella narrativa italiana degli anni Zero, «Allegoria», s. iii, a. xxiii, 64, luglio-dicembre 2011.
S. Giovannuzzi, Nello splendore della confusione. Anni Settanta: la letteratura fra storia e società, Pesaro, Metauro Edizioni, 2021.
Additional and more precise will be offered at the beginning and during the course. - Educational objectives
- The topics covered in the course are aimed at acquiring more in-depth knowledge and skills in relation to an aspect of the history of twentieth-century literature: postmodernism in fiction. The course aims to a) develop a general reflection on the historical or neo-historical novel as one of the hallmarks of contemporaneity; b) to develop a concrete ability to analyze and understand contemporary narrative works. The course aims to provide tools that students are able to use independently, applying them also to texts other than those dealt with in class.
- Prerequisites
- It is important a basic information on the main issues of Italian culture and literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century (at least until the Sixties); fundamental a very good knowledge of contemporary Italian language. Basic knowledge of contemporary history (post-World War II) is required.
- Teaching methods
- 1. Lectures on all the course topics (according to the modalities which will be indicated).
2. Moments of seminar discussion on the texts. Students are encouraged to collaborate actively, even with planned presentation.
In addition, useful materials for the course will be available on unistudium: it is always recommended to check the platform. - Other information
- As all the work will be close reading of texts, attendance is strongly recommended.
For not-attending students the definitive program will be available on unistudium by the end of the course. - Learning verification modality
- The assessment consists of an oral examination (open questions), which aims to value the skills acquired and the ability to apply them independently at the end of the course. The oral examination lasts about half an hour. The final evaluation will be based on: a) the skills acquired; b) the ability to reprocess the contents of the course; c) the ability to re-use the skills acquired independently. Points b) and c) are critical to a positive evaluation. A paper on one of the topics of the course can be arranged, as part of the oral examination.
- Extended program
- A first part of the course will be devoted to framing the historiographical issue of the neo-historical novel and the return to reality in Italy. The second part of the course will be devoted to an examination of the different ways (and genres adopted) to narrate the recent past in Italy.