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
  • Stefano Giovannuzzi
  • Gioachino Lanotte
Hours
  • 36 ore - Stefano Giovannuzzi
  • 12 ore - Gioachino Lanotte
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
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

Between Seventies and Eighties. The course focuses on the social, political and cultural scenario of Italy in the transition between the Seventies and Eighties. This season is basically retraced through fiction (but also contemporary cinema and music). As in the 2019-20 course, the perspective will be twofold: from within the period, by reading exemplary texts of the fiction of those years, but also by putting contemporary fiction, criticism and historiography into play.
Reference texts

A choice, which will be indicated in class, among novels by: Eco, Tondelli, Palandri, Busi, Celati, Calvino, Tabucchi, Bufalino, Consolo, Vassalli, Benni.
And also, among the writers after the millennium: De Cataldo, Falco, Piccolo.

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).

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 and Eighties. 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 useful.
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 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 supplemented by 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.
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.
Extended program

The first part of the course will be dedicated to building the historical and cultural framework of the Seventies and Eighties. It will therefore be examined in an interdisciplinary way how literature, in relation to cinema and music, represents from inside the decade. In the last part of the course, instead, it will focus on how the recent narrative returns to reflect in "historical novels" on the events of the Seventies and in what perspective.
For the course, the integration between the classroom lessons and the 12 hours of ADI is fundamental.
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