Environmental Italian Literature

The course aims to provide students with a critical knowledge of the main elements of the Italian literary system from the Origins to the present, following the tradition and development of models, themes, forms, with a keen attention to the representation and critical use of spaces, both in terms of natural surroundings and of anthropic presence.

At the end of the course the student must know the fundamental aspects and issues of Italian literature from the Origins to the present, with a proper historic and geographical contextualization and specific reference to genres, themes and poetics, authors and works. Furthermore, the student will have to know the tools (metric elements, rhetoric, style theory and narratology) and the critical methodologies necessary to analyse and interpret the texts. The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their proper geohistorical contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.