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 2017
- Offered
- 2018/19
- 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
- A) Italian Literature 1860-1945
B) Italian Poetry from Carducci to Montale
C) Childhood and Adolescence in Italian Fiction 1860-1960: Pinocchio, Agostino, Ernesto - Reference texts
- A) A. Casadei, M. Santagata, "Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea", Bari, Laterza
B) Anthology of Italian Literature ("Antologia della poesia italiana. Il Novecento, a c. di C. Segre, C. Ossola, Torino, Einaudi, 2003)
C) F. Tozzi, "Con gli occhi chiusi", Milano, Garzanti, 2015 (introduzione e note di G. Nicoletti); A. Moravia, "Agostino", Milano, Bompiani; U. Saba, "Ernesto", Torino, Einaudi. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of Italian literature from 1900 to 1945; and of italian poetry from Carducci to Montale, and italian fiction from 1860 to 1960.
- Prerequisites
- Knwoledge of basic elements of Italian Literature and literary analysis.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures on all subjects of the course
- Learning verification modality
- A written exercise plus an oral test are both needed to pass the examination. The written exercise – which should be compulsory carried out before the oral one – will be set to check the general candidate qualification, according a suggested handbook (A). The oral exam will verify knowledge and full understanding of those textbooks which are included in the anthological selection (B and C) . Three different dates will be scheduled during the Academic Year 2018-2019 to afford the written exercise or – in case a 18/30 grade is not reached – to repeat it. Students will be asked to answer 25 questions, each of them with one right answer only, plus three question with open answer (in this case a max. number of lines for answers will be given).
The oral exam (30 minutes) will deal with the analysis of two or more texts, among all those included in the anthological selection and commented upon the class. Average of written and oral grades will be registered as final exam mark, which will produce one report only. - Extended program
- Knowledge of Italian Literature 1900-1945,
of Italian Poetry from Carducci to Montale (30 poems), and of three novels: "Pinocchio", "Agostino", "Ernesto" (Childhood and Adolescence in Italian literature 1860-1960).