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 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - 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.
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - 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 performance of the test itself.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - 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.