Environmental Italian Literature
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
Undefined
Expected learning outcomes
Undefined
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The class is subdivided into two units.
Unit A offers some exemplary critical readings selected from the main texts of the Italian literary tradition, typically from the Middle Ages and Dante to Romanticism. Its content will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the class.
In Unit B (which may vary every year) the focus is on a specific work, author, or literary movement, treated monographically. Unit B will be the main topic of the discussion during the oral exam.
This year's class examines "Italian" literature's troubled encounter with the "other", both as an outcome of the Great Migration outbound to the New World, and as the result of the problematic and stimulating opening of Italian society to new subjects.
Unit A offers some exemplary critical readings selected from the main texts of the Italian literary tradition, typically from the Middle Ages and Dante to Romanticism. Its content will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the class.
In Unit B (which may vary every year) the focus is on a specific work, author, or literary movement, treated monographically. Unit B will be the main topic of the discussion during the oral exam.
This year's class examines "Italian" literature's troubled encounter with the "other", both as an outcome of the Great Migration outbound to the New World, and as the result of the problematic and stimulating opening of Italian society to new subjects.
Prerequisites for admission
The class is conducted entirely in Italian. Course materials and readings require an average knowledge of the main currents of Italian medieval, early modern ad modern literature, set in their historic and cultural context, with special emphasis on their literary and linguistic peculiarities.
Teaching methods
The class consists in 30 lectures. Students are strongly invited to turn in written assignments, the content of which is discussed with the teacher. These papers, though, are not mandatory.
Teaching Resources
Unit A
Course materials are uploaded in the Ariel portal: https://ariel.unimi.it
Unit B
Texts
Syria Poletti, Gente con me, edizione Rubbettino (Soveria Mannelli 2022) o Marsilio (Venezia 1998)
Adrián N. Bravi, L'idioma di Casilda Moreira, Exorma, Roma 2019
Jhumpa Lahiri, In altre parole, Guanda, Milano 2015
Gino Tellini, Scritture della migrazione. Per una prospettiva globale della letteratura italiana, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2023
Criticism. Either one of the following volumes:
Martino Marazzi, Italexit. Saggi su Risorgimento e disunione nazionale, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2019
Martino Marazzi, A occhi aperti. Letteratura dell'emigrazione e mito americano, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2011
Additional readings for non-attending students. Three out of the following books:
Marisa Fenoglio, Il ritorno impossibile, Nutrimenti, Roma 2012
Elvira Mujčić, La lingua di Ana, Infinito edizioni, Castelgandolfo (Roma) 2012
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Mondo nuovo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro) 2022
Ti-Noune Moïse, Terra! ma nessuna patria, Lussografica, Caltanissetta 2022
Adrián N. Bravi, Verde Eldorado, Nutrimenti, Roma 2022
Course materials are uploaded in the Ariel portal: https://ariel.unimi.it
Unit B
Texts
Syria Poletti, Gente con me, edizione Rubbettino (Soveria Mannelli 2022) o Marsilio (Venezia 1998)
Adrián N. Bravi, L'idioma di Casilda Moreira, Exorma, Roma 2019
Jhumpa Lahiri, In altre parole, Guanda, Milano 2015
Gino Tellini, Scritture della migrazione. Per una prospettiva globale della letteratura italiana, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2023
Criticism. Either one of the following volumes:
Martino Marazzi, Italexit. Saggi su Risorgimento e disunione nazionale, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2019
Martino Marazzi, A occhi aperti. Letteratura dell'emigrazione e mito americano, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2011
Additional readings for non-attending students. Three out of the following books:
Marisa Fenoglio, Il ritorno impossibile, Nutrimenti, Roma 2012
Elvira Mujčić, La lingua di Ana, Infinito edizioni, Castelgandolfo (Roma) 2012
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Mondo nuovo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro) 2022
Ti-Noune Moïse, Terra! ma nessuna patria, Lussografica, Caltanissetta 2022
Adrián N. Bravi, Verde Eldorado, Nutrimenti, Roma 2022
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written + oral exam:
at the end of the class, either in November or December, a two-hour written exam on Unit A (no dictionary allowed) tests the understanding of the specificities of literary texts, as well as students' familiarity with the basics of critical scholarship, and their acquisition of a personal and grounded judgement. Clarity and rigor of the analysis is required through a proper use of the critical vocabulary. Two additional tests are typically scheduled in May and in September.
Grades breakdown: Fail, Basic, Average, Good, Excellent.
Once the written part is completed, students can access to the oral exam (Unit B). All students can take part in it, even those who were graded as Fail (in which case, they will have to repeat their preparation of Unit A, in accordance with the teacher).
The oral part asks for the same learning requirements as the written part, and, in compliance with the Italian academic tradition, will be graded on a 30-point scale, from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude .
at the end of the class, either in November or December, a two-hour written exam on Unit A (no dictionary allowed) tests the understanding of the specificities of literary texts, as well as students' familiarity with the basics of critical scholarship, and their acquisition of a personal and grounded judgement. Clarity and rigor of the analysis is required through a proper use of the critical vocabulary. Two additional tests are typically scheduled in May and in September.
Grades breakdown: Fail, Basic, Average, Good, Excellent.
Once the written part is completed, students can access to the oral exam (Unit B). All students can take part in it, even those who were graded as Fail (in which case, they will have to repeat their preparation of Unit A, in accordance with the teacher).
The oral part asks for the same learning requirements as the written part, and, in compliance with the Italian academic tradition, will be graded on a 30-point scale, from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude .
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Marazzi Martino
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