Unit CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Course
Humanities
Study-unit Code
35099206
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Sandro Gentili
Teachers
  • Sandro Gentili
Hours
  • 36 ore - Sandro Gentili
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
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
"Cento anni di letteratura italiana 1910-2010", a cura di M.A. Bazzocchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021, pp. 1-139;
Thirty poems from Carducci to Luzi on Unistudium or in
“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.
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