CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: MASSIMO SCHILIRO'

Expected Learning Outcomes

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

- knowledge and understanding in a post-secondary level field of study and knowing the fundamental themes in one's field of study;

- ability to apply knowledge and understanding in order to demonstrate a professional approach and possess adequate skills both to conceive and support arguments and to solve problems in one's field of study

-  learning skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Historical introduction to Italian literature from 1915 to today; reading of the canonical texts of the period.

Course Structure

Lectures.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

The course includes a first module aimed at the acquisition of basic historical knowledge on contemporary Italian literature (poetics, trends, genres, authors and works) and a second module aimed at the full reading of nine canonical works with the support of critical studies and teaching monographs.

Textbook Information

History

Cento anni di letteratura italiana 1910-2010, a cura di Marco A. Bazzocchi, Einaudi, 2021, pp. 1-494 (to consult)

 

Works

1.      Luigi Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore, 1916 e 1925

a.       Riccardo Castellana, Pirandello o la coscienza del realismo: «I Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore» in R. Luperini e M. Tortora (a cura di), Sul Modernismo italiano, Liguori, 2012, pp. 105-134

b.      Giancarlo Mazzacurati, Il doppio mondo di Serafino Gubbio, in Pirandello nel romanzo europeo, il Mulino, 1985, pp. 241-267

2.      Giuseppe Ungaretti, Il porto sepolto, 1916

a.       Carlo Ossola, commentary on Giuseppe Ungaretti, Il porto sepolto, Marsilio, 2001

b.      Andrea Cortellessa, Ungaretti, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 1-68

3.      Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno, 1923

a.       Fabio Vittorini, Svevo: guida alla Coscienza di Zeno, Carocci, 2003, pp. 128

4.      Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, 1925

a.       Alberto Casadei, Montale, il Mulino, 2018, pp. 1-41

b.      Pietro Cataldi e Floriana d’Amely, commentary on Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, Mondadori, 2016

5.      Italo Calvino, Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, 1979

a.       Claudio Milanini, L’utopia discontinua. Saggi su Italo Calvino, Carocci, 2023, pp. 127-143

6.      Elsa Morante, Aracoeli, 1982

a.       Massimo Schilirò, Il ritorno di Adamo in paradiso, in Tornare alla casa della madre, ETS, pp. 59-120

 

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.
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