Unit ITALIAN LITERATURE OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005239
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sandro Gentili
- Teachers
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- Sandro Gentili
- Hours
- 36 ore - Sandro Gentili
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Lingua e letteratura italiana
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/11
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Umberto Saba: poetical work. Analysis of poetical text. Elements of literary criticism and versification.
- Reference texts
- Umberto Saba, "Il canzoniere 1900-1954", introduzione di Nunzia Palmieri, Torino, Einaudi, 2014;
Stefano Carrai, "Saba", Roma, Salerno editrice, 2017. - Educational objectives
- The teaching is the main opportunity to learn the poetic work of a very important contemporary Italian poet and to compete with the methodologies of analysis of literary texts. The main Knowledge should cover: 1) Knowledge of a very important author and work of Italian literature; 2) Knowledge of the main features of italian poetry; 3) Knowledge of the main elements of 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 sufficient knowledge of italian literature, in particular of italian poetry of the nineteenth century. 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
- Ugo Foscolo: "Poems": 12 sonnets, 2 odes, Dei Sepolcri, Le Grazie. Analysis of poetical text. Elements of literary criticism and versification.