Unit LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A002651
- Curriculum
- Storia europea
- Teacher
- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Teachers
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- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Gioachino Lanotte
- Hours
- 36 ore - Stefano Giovannuzzi
- 12 ore - Gioachino Lanotte
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- 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
- Seventies: literature, history, society. The course focuses on the social, political and cultural scenario of Italy in the Seventies. This season is retraced by interweaving literature (basically fiction) with the broader historical, cultural and social panorama of the decade. Attention will also be paid to philosophical reflection, music and cinema. The perspective will be twofold: from within the period, reading exemplary texts of the fiction of those years, but also bringing into play contemporary fiction, criticism and historiography.
- Reference texts
- Fiction:
G. Celati, Le avventure di Guizzardi, Torino, Einaudi, 1972 (any edition).
G. Sapienza, L’arte della gioia, Torino, Einaudi, 2008 (any edition).
S. Benni, Bar Sport, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1976 (any edition).
R. Nisticò, L’Arcavacànte (storia di anarchici lupi e ragazze), Faenza, Mobydick, 2006.
P. V. Tondelli, Altri libertini, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980 (any edition).
E. Palandri, Boccalone [1979], Milano, Bompiani, 2017 (any edition).
For the philosophical reflection, indications will be offered in class.
For cinema and music, more precise indications will be offered in class
P. Ginsborg, Storia d'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi. Società e politica. 1943-1988, Torino, Einaudi, 20062 (a choice of chapters).
P. Ginsborg, L’italia del tempo presente. Famiglia, società civile, Stato, Torino, Einaudi, 20072 (a choice of chapters).
M. Gotor, L’Italia nel Novecento. Dalla sconfitta di Adua alla vittoria di Amazon, Torino, Einaudi, 2019 (a choice of chapters).
S. Giovannuzzi, Nello splendore della confusione. Anni Settanta: la letteratura fra storia e società, Pesaro, Metauro Edizioni, 2021.
Come strumento di supporto:
E. Deaglio, Patria 1967-1977, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017.
E. Deaglio, Patria 1978-2010, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2010.
More precise indications will be offered during the course. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course the student will have adequate knowledge to orient himself critically with respect to the historical and cultural framework of the Seventies. He will also be able to reflect independently on the relationship between literature and the profound changes underway, through the double look: of contemporaries and writers who use narrative backwards to retrace one of the critical decades of twentieth century Italian history. In particular, the student is expected to have gained: a) a critical knowledge and understanding of the topics covered; b) the ability to apply, in an active and autonomous way, the knowledge and skills acquired to reflect on the relationship between poetry and the system of contemporary literature; c) the ability to evaluate and judge in-progress phenomena and to connect them to a framework of general and complex references, literary but also social and cultural; d) an adequate capacity of expression and communication, using appropriate and scientifically sound language; e) the ability to ask questions and make hypotheses that allow him to expand on and develop the topics covered in the course.
- Prerequisites
- A good knowledge of Italian literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century is an important requirement. It is also essential to have a good command of the Italian language. A basic knowledge of contemporary history is also essential.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures on all the course topics (according to the modalities which will be indicated). Moments of discussion on the texts. Students are encouraged to collaborate actively. If possible, Power Point will be used and images and movies will be projected.
In addition, useful materials for the course will be available the unistudium: it is always recommended to check unistudium
The course will also be thankful for 12 hours of integrated teaching. - Other information
- Attendance is strongly recommended. Students who do not attend classes must agree with the instructor upon readings.
However, for not-attending students the definitive program will be available on unistudium by the end of the course.
The modalities of the lessons will be available before the beginning of the courses - 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.
- Extended program
- The first part of the course will be dedicated to building a historical, social and cultural framework (with attention also to philosophical thought) of the 1970s. We will then examine the intertwining of literature, cinema and music in an interdisciplinary way, in order to understand how these expressive media simultaneously represent the decade. In the last part of the course, instead, we will focus on how recent fiction reflects in the terms of 'historical novels' the events of the 1970s and in which perspective.
The integration between classroom lectures and the 12 hours of ADI is fundamental for the understanding of the course.