Narratives of Social Change in Italy

Acquisition of key concepts in the formal analysis—primarily narratological but also rhetorical—of literary texts and essays. Knowledge of major issues concerning the relationship between textual representation and the dynamics of historical and social change.

Ability to identify connections between formal techniques and both the construction of worldviews and representations of social contexts while reading texts. Ability to autonomously analyse and interpret literary texts or other cultural works and their links to socio-cultural contexts using appropriate and conceptually defined technical terminology.