Literary Culture and Genres of Modernity
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to offer an in-depth know-how of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Italian literature culture. Focus will be put on genres, types and forms of literary expression, according to the variety of their textual articulations and their multiple audience.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge: 1) Awareness of the relationship between literary, semi-literary and extra-literary dominion in the context of twentieth-century production; 2) Knowledge of the modern literary genres system; 3) Awareness of the writer's professional role. 4) Awareness of the plurality of perspectives on literary texts.
Skills: 1) Ability to identify the main textual features (structural, thematic, stylistic) linked to the genre's historical development 2) Ability to describe textual choices in connection with fiction and nonfiction production 3) Ability to sort through the modes and genres outline.
Skills: 1) Ability to identify the main textual features (structural, thematic, stylistic) linked to the genre's historical development 2) Ability to describe textual choices in connection with fiction and nonfiction production 3) Ability to sort through the modes and genres outline.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Part A will focus on methodology, with specific attention to genres, typologies and hybrid forms of the literary system of modernity.
Part B will consider works belonging to a specific genre of twentieth-century modernity: the Bildungsroman
Part B will consider works belonging to a specific genre of twentieth-century modernity: the Bildungsroman
Prerequisites for admission
Students must have a general knowledge of twentieth-century Italian literature, methodological awareness and a basic critical lexicon.
Teaching methods
Lectures; In-class discussions; Focus on assessment and marking
Teaching Resources
Part A
V. Spinazzola, Critica della lettura, pp.12-168, Edizioni GoWare; G. Rosa, Il patto narrativo. La fondazione della civiltà romanzesca in Italia, cap I Il patto narrativo, pp. 9-58 (Ariel)
Part B
A. Moravia, Agostino; E. Morante, Isola d'Arturo; M. Satrapi, Persepolis.
G. Rosa, Tre adolescenti nell'Italia del dopoguerra, in Il romanzo di formazione nell'Ottocento e nel Novecento, a cura di M. C. Papini, D. Fioretti, T. Spignoli, Pisa ETS 2007, pp. 105-120 (su Ariel); G. Rosa Elsa Morante, cap I (La preistoria romanzesca) e cap. III ( l'isola d'Arturo il romanzo di formazione di Arturo e Nunz) , il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
Non attending students, in addition:
Part A
V. Spinazzola, Il funzionalismo di Antonio Gramsci, in Critica della lettura, pp. 170-187.
Part B
F. Moretti, Il romanzo di formazione, cap I, Il Bildungsroman come forma simbolica e Postilla, "un'inutile nostalgia di me sytesso". La crisi del romanzo di formazione europeo, 1898-1914, Torino Einaudi 1999
V. Spinazzola, Critica della lettura, pp.12-168, Edizioni GoWare; G. Rosa, Il patto narrativo. La fondazione della civiltà romanzesca in Italia, cap I Il patto narrativo, pp. 9-58 (Ariel)
Part B
A. Moravia, Agostino; E. Morante, Isola d'Arturo; M. Satrapi, Persepolis.
G. Rosa, Tre adolescenti nell'Italia del dopoguerra, in Il romanzo di formazione nell'Ottocento e nel Novecento, a cura di M. C. Papini, D. Fioretti, T. Spignoli, Pisa ETS 2007, pp. 105-120 (su Ariel); G. Rosa Elsa Morante, cap I (La preistoria romanzesca) e cap. III ( l'isola d'Arturo il romanzo di formazione di Arturo e Nunz) , il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
Non attending students, in addition:
Part A
V. Spinazzola, Il funzionalismo di Antonio Gramsci, in Critica della lettura, pp. 170-187.
Part B
F. Moretti, Il romanzo di formazione, cap I, Il Bildungsroman come forma simbolica e Postilla, "un'inutile nostalgia di me sytesso". La crisi del romanzo di formazione europeo, 1898-1914, Torino Einaudi 1999
Assessment methods and Criteria
The overall evaluation consists of an oral exam on the issues addressed and on the texts included in the syllabus. Students are expected to understand and explain the historical and cultural dynamics of the literary system in modern and contemporary Italy, and to properly analyse the individually chosen literary texts.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Also students with disabilities should contact the teacher of the course, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent Office
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Also students with disabilities should contact the teacher of the course, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent Office
L-FIL-LET/11 - CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Rosa Giovanna
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