For the knowledge of the general features of the
history of Italian literature in the twentieth century and of the authors to be
studied in depth according to the program indications, the use of the following
manuals is recommended:
Alberto Casadei, Marco Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea,
Laterza, Roma-Bari 2024 (2007) pp. 51-88, 102-111, 136-163, 177-187, 203-220,
231-287, 292-299, 305-309, 363-371, 390-392.
Andrea Battistini (a cura di), Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. 6,
Il Novecento (a cura di Alberto
Casadei), Bologna, il Mulino 2014, pp. 1-194 (available at the library
«Biblioteca di Lingue» )
Any critical in-depth texts will be indicated and
provided during the lessons (or during the teacher’s office hours), and made
available on the Studium online platform
(about 40 pages).
Module A:
A selection of poetic texts (about fifty) by
Guido Gozzano, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Cesare
Pavese, Attilio Bertolucci, Giorgio Caproni. The texts, with relative comments
and analyses, will be indicated and provided during the lessons (or during the
teacher’s office hours) and made available on the Studium online platform.
Module B
1) A
book of your choice from the following:
Federigo Tozzi, Con
gli occhi chiusi (edition of your choice, about 200 pages).
Vitaliano Brancati, Il bell’Antonio, Mondadori (278 pages).
2) A
book of your choice from the following:
Anna Maria Ortese, Il mare non bagna Napoli, Adelphi (176 pages).
Anna Maria Ortese, Silenzio a Milano, La Tartaruga (140 pages).
3) A
book of your choice from the following:
Beppe Fenoglio, La
paga del sabato, Einaudi (136 pages).
Leonardo Sciascia, L’antimonio, da Id., Gli
zii di Sicilia, Adelphi (about 70 pages).
4) A
book of your choice from the following:
Italo Calvino, Il
barone rampante, Mondadori (228 pages).
Leonardo Sciascia, Candido ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia, Adelphi (137 pages).
The course program is valid for both attending
and non-attending students. However, active and consistent attendance is
recommended to facilitate the acquisition of appropriate reading techniques and
metrical and rhetorical commentary on the proposed texts.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.