LETTERATURA DEL MERIDIONE D’ITALIA

Knowledge and understandig: Knowledge of fundamental data of the southern Italian literary civilization of the twentieth century; learning of philological and critical-literary research methodologies, with particular regard to the ability to critically analyze the literary text.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to consider literary texts critically; ability to connect elements of one’s own culture with those of other cultures; ability to orient oneself within the printed and online bibliography; ability to link competences in an interdisciplinary fashion.

Making judgement: Critical ability to combine literary competences acquired in an interdisciplinary fashion and to interpret different sociolinguistic and cultural domains from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.

Communication skills: Ability to present the results of one’s study in complex ways; ability to discuss literary contents effectively and critically.

Learning skills: Development of autonomous learning skills in studying the literary materials of the course with the aim of interacting with diverse interlocutors and in different working environments.

1) Critical texts:

-       Massimo Onofri, Storia di Sciascia, Inschibboleth, 2021, pp. 23-358.

-       Giuseppe Traina, Leonardo Sciascia, in Il romanzo in Italia, vol. IV Il secondo Novecento, a cura di G. Alfano e F. de Cristofaro, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 341-354 (the essay will be available on the Studium platform).

 

2) Literary texts:

-       Leonardo Sciascia, La Sicilia, il suo cuore – Favole della dittatura, Adelphi, paperback edition, pp. 72.

-       Leonardo Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo, Adelphi, 2000, paperback edition, pp. 132.

-       Leonardo Sciascia, La scomparsa di Majorana, Adelphi, 2004, paperback edition, pp. 113.

-       Leonardo Sciascia, Il cavaliere e la morte, Adelphi, 2007, paperback edition, pp. 84.

-        The essays of Leonardo Sciascia L’ordine delle somiglianze, L’ignoto marinaio, Appunto su “Bouvard e Pécuchet”, Letteratura e mafia, Parigi (the essays (40 pp.) will be available on the Studium platform).

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.