Unit CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35099206
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Teachers
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- Stefano Giovannuzzi
- Hours
- 36 ore - Stefano Giovannuzzi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature moderne
- Sector
- L-FIL-LET/11
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course focuses on three phases of Italian literary history between the early twentieth century and the season of Neorelism:
1) The Eighties generation and the rejection of the novel in the early twentieth century
2) Italian literature between the two wars
3) World War II and neorealism - Reference texts
- Novels:
S. Aleramo, Una vita, 1906.
F. Tozzi, Con gli occhi chiusi, 1919.
L. Pirandello, Uno, nessuno e centomila,1925
M. Bontempelli, Il figlio di due madri, 1919.
A. De Cespedes, Nessuna torna indietro, 1938
T. Landolfi, La pietra lunare, 1939.
D. Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari, 1940.
C. Pavese, Il compagno, 1947.
I. Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, 1947
E. Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio, 1948
E. Vittorini, Le donne di Messina, 1949
A. Moravia, Il conformista, 1951
Poetry:
G. Ungaretti, Allegria di naufragi, 1919.
E. Montale, Le occasioni, 1939.
Students read a choice of 5 novels: the choice must be justified so as to illustrate important aspects of Italian fiction of the first half-century. At least 2 novels must be between 1900 and 1925; 2 between 1929 and 1940: 2 between 1947 and 1951.
One of two poets of your choice.
G. Ruozzi – G. Tellini, Letteratura italiana contemporanea, Mondadori Educational (a part indicated in class).
M. Gotor, L’Italia nel Novecento. Dalla sconfitta di Adua alla vittoria di Amazon, Torino, Einaudi, 2019.
Additional materials useful for the course will also be made available on unistudium: it is recommended that you always check it.
Further guidance on the use of the bibliography will be provided in class.
Students requesting to take the course as non-attended read Ruozzi - Tellini in full. - Educational objectives
- The topics covered in the course are aimed at the acquisition of deeper knowledge and skills in relation to the development of Italian literature between the early twentieth century and the 1950s. The course aims to a) carry out a general reflection on the various phases of Italian literature, taking strong account of the historical context in which they are to be placed; b) develop a concrete ability to analyze and understand a narrative and poetic text and its mechanisms. The course aims to provide tools that students will be able to use independently, applying them also to authors and texts other than those covered in class.
- Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, with the aid of audiovisual tools.
- Other information
- Students with disabilities and/or DSAs are requested to contact the lecturer in good time for all aids useful for taking the course and agreeing on exam arrangements. For general information, please consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Contact Person for the Department (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).
- Learning verification modality
- The assessment consists of an oral examination, with open-ended questions, which is designed to test the skills and ability to apply them independently gained at the end of the course, thanks to the course itself and the reading of the bibliography, based on the directions included under “Reference Texts.” The duration of the examination is approximately half an hour. The final assessment is made on the basis of (a) the skills acquired; (b) the ability to rework the course content; and (c) the ability to reuse the skills acquired independently. Points (b) and (c) are essential for a positive evaluation.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA, who have been accredited through SOL, can consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and get in touch with the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- The Course is divided into three major sequences:
1) The transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the emergence of a generation (the one born in the 1980s) that makes a clean slate of the past, rejecting models and seeking a way of expression not conditioned by tradition. At the expense is the novel, while privileged forms of expression are poetry and short forms.
2) The end of the war opens a season of reopening dialogue with tradition. Between the 1920s and 1930s the privileged form of expression rendered poetry. But there is also a revival of the novel, with young narrators such as Moravia and a discrete strand of fantastic literature.
3) With the war and postwar period there is a real reversal, with the crisis of poetry, especially its most extreme form, Hermeticism, and the emergence to the forefront of the novel. The novel, often a witness to the war and the liberation struggle, of the postwar period brings us inside the debate on the relationship between literature and society: this is the season of Neorealism. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Quality education 8 Decent work and economic growth 10 Reducing inequality