Teaching Workshop: the Narrative Pact in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century Novel
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The teaching workshop aims to improve the analytical, critical and methodological skills to bridge the transition between BA (LT) and MA (LM) Contemporary Italian Literature courses. The final objective is to raise awareness on the process of "novelization".
Expected learning outcomes
Students are expected to gain full knowledge of the dynamics that, in the literary system of modernity, regulate practices of reading, writing, and the mediation of publishing.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
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
Second semester
Course syllabus
Analysis of the following works: U.I. Tarchetti, Fosca; G. Verga, Eva; L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal; I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno; C.E. Gadda, La meccanica; E. Morante, L'isola di Arturo; N. Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission.
Teaching methods
Introductory lectures; individual papers; group discussions.
Teaching Resources
G. Rosa, Il patto narrativo. La fondazione della civiltà romanzesca in Italia, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2008
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be assessed on their critical-argumentative skills and on their individual papers. The workshop final evaluation is "Approved" or "Not-approved".
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