Unit Contemporary Italian literature
- Course
- Communication studies
- Study-unit Code
- A002976
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Teachers
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- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Hours
- 36 ore - Stefano Giovannuzzi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline semiotiche, linguistiche e informatiche
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/11
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Pasolini between literature and cinema. The course deals with Pasolini from the beginning, as a poet and then a narrator, to the 1960s, with his arrival in cinema and theoretical reflection on it.
- Reference texts
- P. P. Pasolini, Amado mio – Atti impuri, MIlano, Garzanti.
P. P. Pasolini, Ragazzi di vita, MIlano, Garzanti
P. P. Pasolini, Una vita violenta, Milano Garzanti.
P. P. Pasolini, Accattone
P.Heusch e B. Rondi, Una vita violenta
P. P. Pasolini, Mamma Roma
A selection of Pasolini's poems and essays on cinema will be available on unistudium.
M, A. Bazzocchi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1998
M. A. Bazzocchi, I burattini filosofi. Pasolini dalla letteratura al cinema, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010.
Further and more precise information, as well as other bibliographical material, will be offered at the beginning and during the course.
For Communication Science students only:
G. Langella, La modernità letteraria. Manuale di letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Milano-Torino, Pearson, 2021: le sezioni 4, 5, 6 e 7. - Educational objectives
- The topics covered in the course are aimed at the acquisition of deeper knowledge and skills in relation to Pier Paolo Pasolini and his complex relationship with literature and cinema. The course aims to (a) develop a general reflection on Pasolini and the historical context in which his work is to be placed; (b) develop a concrete ability to analyze and understand Pasolini's poetic, narrative and cinematic works (as well as critical essays). The course aims to provide tools that students are able to use independently, applying them even to texts other than those covered 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.
To supplement gaps, and to develop an overall picture of Contemporary Italian literature, Communication Science students will supplement the course with a literary history textbook. - 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
- Attendance is strongly recommended. Students who do not attend classes must agree with the instructor upon readings.
For not-attending students the definitive program will be available on unistudium by the end of the course.
NB: Students with disabilities and / or SLDs are requested to contact the teacher in time for all the useful aids to follow the course and to agree on the examination methods. - 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 written examination on the textbook part is provided for Communication Science students. The date will be set during the course. - Extended program
- The course will be articulated in three successive moments: a) Pasolini's beginnings in the 1940s, between poetry and fiction, with particular attention to the knot of literature and homosexuality and to the lyrical condition from which Pasolini moves; b) the fifties in Rome: the original lyrical horizon transferred to urban decay; c) between the fifties and sixties: the landing in cinema and theoretical reflection on cinema.