Contemporary Italian Literature

The course aims to provide a thorough training in contemporary Italian literature from critical and methodological as well as historical and cultural points of view. A reconstruction of the XX century Italian literary system will be therefore proposed, aware of the changes in relationships between authors, genres, movements, editorial mediation and public, accompanied by monographic insights, functional to the improvement of critical analysis and to the interpretation of single works.

Knowledge: 1) Dynamics of the Italian literary system from the XX century to the present day: movements, poetics, personalities and key works, articulation by genres and styles, relationship with publishing and cultural institutions. 2) Understanding of the basic elements to set up an analysis of contemporary Italian literary texts (narrative structures & stylistic, rhetorical, metrical strategies).
Skills: 1) Ability to identify the specific expressive textual features and recognize authorial choices and modalities of the pact with the reader. 2) Ability to place chronology, historical contextualization and genre attribution of the texts. 3) Ability to examine critical texts, understanding their structure, concepts, arguments. 4) Ability to identify and control documentary sources and bibliographic tools in the context of contemporary Italian literature.