CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MILENA GIUFFRIDA

Expected Learning Outcomes

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1. knowledge of the main literary movements of 19th and 20th century and understanding of their historical and cultural connections.

2. ability to apply acquired knowledge in studying and learning authors and literary movements not included in the curriculum.

3. ability to formulate independent analysis and evaluations about the authors studied and to synthesize them appropriately.

Course Structure

Lectures

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the outlines of Italian literary history from the origins to the 19th century and the essential historical lines of the 20th century. Adequate competence in the comprehension and critical reading of literary texts.

Attendance of Lessons

Optional

Detailed Course Content

A Twentieth-century fiction: the experience of the modernist novel (4 ECTS)

B The poetry of the twentieth century: from Pascoli to Pasolini (4 ECTS)

C Pasolini and Calvino compared (1 ECTS)

Textbook Information

A Twentieth-century fiction: the experience of the modernist novel (4 ECTS)

- G. Langella, La modernità letteraria. Manuale di letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Milano, Pearson, 2021, pp. 202-207; 219-242; 338-358; 363-370; 371-377; 479-493; 514-520.

A novel of your choice from:

- F. Tozzi, Con gli occhi chiusi (edition of your choice)

- L. Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore (edition of your choice)

- I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno (edition of your choice)

- C.E. Gadda, La cognizione del dolore, a cura di P. Italia-G. Pinotti-C. Vela, Milano, Adelphi, 2017.

- C. Pavese, La luna e i falò, a cura di A. Sichera e A. Di Silvestro, Milano, Mondadori, 2021.

- Choice of anthology texts totaling about 100 pages that will be made available by faculty.

B The poetry of the twentieth century: from Pascoli to Pasolini (4 ECTS)

- G. Langella, La modernità letteraria. Manuale di letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Milano, Pearson, 2021, pp. 140-168; 176-192; 248-254; 259-266; 304-330; 398-406; 411-421; 574-582; 586-591.

A book of your choice from:

- G. Ungaretti, Il porto sepolto, a cura di C. Ossola, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001.

- E. Montale, Ossi di seppia, Milano, Mondadori, 2016

- U. Saba, Il canzoniere, a cura di N. Palmieri, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.

- Choice of anthology texts totaling about 200 pages that will be made available by faculty.

C Pasolini and Calvino compared (1 ECTS)

- Selection of essays made available by faculty totaling about 100 pages from P.P. Pasolini, Scritti corsari; Id., Lettere luterane; I. Calvino, Una pietra sopra; Id., Lezioni americane.

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.

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	Introduction to the course
2	Giovanni Pascoli	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
3	Gabriele D'Annunzio	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
4	Gozzano e i crepuscolari	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
5	Luigi Pirandello	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
6	Federigo Tozzi	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
7	Italo Svevo	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
8	Il modernismo	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
9	Carlo Emilio Gadda	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
10	Giuseppe Ungaretti	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
11	Umberto Saba	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
12	Eugenio Montale	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
13	Cesare Pavese	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
14	Italo Calvino	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
15	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
16	Mario Luzi	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
17	Salvatore Quasimodo	Texts module B; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.
18	Pasolini and Calvino compared	P.P. Pasolini, Scritti corsari; Id., Lettere luterane; I. Calvino, Una pietra sopra; Id., Lezioni americane
19	In itinere testing	Texts module A; anthology excerpts, lecturer's handouts.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral test

Written in itinere examination on module A.

The assessment of the examination will take into account the candidate's mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical propriety, as well as his or her ability to argue.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

What are the characteristics of the modernist novel

The influence of psychoanalysis on 20th century literature

Characteristics of Neorealism

Paraphrase and commentary of a poetic text

The experience of the Great War for Italian writers

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