MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE – A
Stampa
Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2018/2019
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/11 (CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
HUMANITIES
Curriculum
Lettere moderne
Year of study
Period
(24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
Prerequisites
For foreign students, a good level of linguistic knowledge is requested
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide thorough investigations on modern works and authors addressing various literary aspects: philological matters, cultural links, historical and cultural context, stylistic items, literary genres, foreign models, the relationship between tradition and innovation.
Course contents
Readings mainly from:
Italo Svevo, Una vita e Senilità;
Aldo Palazzeschi, Il codice di Perelà:
Massimo Bontempelli, La vita intensa e La vita operosa;
Luigi Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore e Uno, nessuno, centomila.

For bibliographic information and suggestions, you can ask the teacher, the tutors and assistants. For foreign students, an alternative and personal programme will be arranged. A good level of knowledge of Italian is also requested to attend the classes.

Programme for students not attending the course
The attendance at the lessons is highly recommended. Students who cannot attend, are invited to come to speak to the teacher during his consulting hours or to contact him by an email to fix an alternative programme.
Teaching methods
Lectures with discussions and verification of various skills, starting from the readings and comment on texts.
Reccomended or required readings
Texts will be supplied on Kiro.

Editions:

I. Svevo, Romanzi e continuazioni, Milano, Mondadori, 2004 (paperback edition available).

II. L. Pirandello, Tutti i romanzi, vol. II, Milano, Mondadori, 1973.

Other editions:

Per Svevo: Romanzi, Milano, Mondadori, 1985;
Una vita, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, a cura di F. Amigoni;
Senilità, edizione commentata della princeps (1898) a cura di F. Catenazzi, Milano, Mimesis, 2005.

Per Pirandello: Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore, Milano, Garzanti, 2008, Introduzione di N. Borsellino, Prefazione e Note di M. A. Grignani; Uno, nessuno e centomila, a cura di Giancarlo Mazzacurati, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.

Per Palazzeschi: Romanzi, vol. I, Milano, Mondadori, 2004;
Il codice di Perelà, Milano, Mondadori, 1997 (con molte ristampe)

Per Bontempelli: Opere scelte, Milano, Mondadori, 1978;
La vita intensa, Milano, Isbn edizioni, 2009.

Basic bibliography:
Both for Svevo and Pirandello, still fundamental are G. Debenedetti's essays: Il romanzo del novecento, Milano, Garzanti, 1998; Saggi, Milano, Mondadori, 1999.

For Svevo:
G. Mazzacurati, Tre progetti di analisi per tre microstrutture sveviane («Una vita»), in Forma e ideologia, Napoli, Liguori, 1974; B. Porcelli, Sulla struttura di «Una vita» di Svevo, in «Italianistica», V, 2, 1976; P. Sarzana, Le varianti in «Senilità», in «Studi di filologia italiana», XXXV, 1977; M. Lavagetto, L’impiegato Schmitz e altri saggi su Svevo, Torino, Einaudi, 1986; S. Maxia, Svevo e la prosa del Novecento, Bari, Laterza, 1990; F. Catenazzi, L’italiano di Svevo: tra scrittura pubblica e scrittura privata, Firenze, Olschki, 1994;

For Pirandello:
G. Giudice, Luigi Pirandello, Torino, UTET, 1963; W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, in Opere complete, vol. VII, Scritti 1938-1940, Torino, Einaudi, 2006, pp. 300-31; G. Mazzacurati, Pirandello nel romanzo europeo, Bologna, il Mulino, 1987; U. Artioli, L'officina segreta di Pirandello, Bari, Laterza, 1989; F. Angelini, Serafino e la tigre. Pirandello tra scrittura teatro e cinema, Venezia, Marsilio, 1990; E. Gioanola, Pirandello, la follia, Milano, Jaca Book, 1997; A. Sichera, Ecce Homo! Nomi, cifre, figure di Pirandello, Firenze, Olschki, 2005; Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore (1916-2016). Atti del 53° Convegno internazionale di studi pirandelliani, Caltanissetta, Lussografica, 2016, a cura di S. Milioto.

Further bibliographic informations will be supplied during the course.

For foreign students, an alternative and personal programme will be arranged. A good level of knowledge of Italian is also requested to attend the classes.

Programme for students not attending the course
The attendance at the lessons is highly recommended. Students who cannot attend, are invited to come to speak to the teacher during his consulting hours or to contact him by an email to fix an alternative programme
Assessment methods
Lectures with discussions and verification of various skills. Oral examination with precise verification of acquired competences, of connection abilities among the subjects dealt during the lessons, and of an appropriate exposition. Possible tests in progress.
Further information
Lectures with discussions and verification of various skills. Oral examination with precise verification of acquired competences, of connection abilities among the subjects dealt during the lessons, and of an appropriate exposition. Possible tests in progress.
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