2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-FIL-LET/10 (ITALIAN LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

FANARA ROSANGELA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Knowledge of elementary metrics and rhetoric. Suggested books: Dizionario di linguistica e di filologia, metrica, retorica dir. G. Beccaria, Torino, Einaudi, 1996 ; G. Lavezzi, Breve dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Roma, Carocci, 2004 ; G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia. Guida alla metrica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2006.

The course aims to introduce the basic contents and instruments of Italian
literature, and to provide a more specific competence on issues, moments
and authors copies of Italian literary tradition, investigated in the texts
and in the secondary bibliography.

A.Re-write themselves (III) : re-writing in poems of XV-XVI centuries: I. Sannazaro's rime

The texts analyzed and their subsidies will be made available on line at the beginning of the course.

B. Analysis of exemplary excerpts from Dante's Inferno.

For the examinations it is required:

1) Knowledge of some authors and literary movements of the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century.

Suggested Anthologies:

I
C. RICCARDI, Letteratura d'Italia. Dall'Ottocento al primo Novecento, Unicopli, 2014
in which should be studied the following topics: G. Carducci (cap. 16); La Scapigliatura (cap. 17); G. Verga (cap. 18); L. Capuana, F. De Roberto (cap. 19); G. Pascoli (cap. 23); G. D'Annunzio (cap. 24).

II
C. BOLOGNA, P. ROCCHI, Rosa fresca aulentissima, vol. 6, Il primo Novecento, Loescher, 2011
in which should be studied the following topics: La Poesia Crepuscolare (sez. 2, cap. 1); Le avanguardie, Marinetti (sez. 1, cap. 2); Pirandello, Svevo ( sez. 3, capitoli 1 e 2); Ungaretti, Montale, Saba (sez. 2, cap. 2, 3, 4)


As for authors and movements indicated above, knowledge of all the texts present in the anthologies will be required (reading and comment). Texts requested during the examination will be selected exclusively from the designated textbooks (which are not replaceable).


2) Reading and commentary of 10 "canti" of Dante’s Inferno, chosen by the student. Suggested editions: edited by A.M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori (« Oscar »), 2005 ; edited by G. Inglese, Roma, Carocci, 2007; edited by E. Pasquini e A. Quaglio, Milano, Garzanti, 2007 ; edited by V. Sermonti, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1996; edited by U. Bosco e G. Reggio, Firenze, le Monnier, 1988.


3) Analysis of texts analysed during the course (see above points A - B ).

Lectures

See program

Oral examination can be held only after passing a preliminary written test lasting three hours,. The written test consists of questions (a part of which with answers to be ticked) and analysis of the poetic text. Everything is related only to section 1. of the course’s syllabus. The result of the written test is valid for sixteen months guarantees access to the oral examination, which consists of a discussion of the written test and of sections 2 and 3 of the syllabus (ten Canti of Dante’s Inferno and the whole course).
A didactic seminar will be dedicated to the analysis of texts chosen among those included in the general part, in order to prepare the exam. A tutoring service is provided for helping to prepare students in need (especially foreign students, but not only). Further information will be granted at the beginning of the course.

Attendance is strongly recommended. Students who are unable to attend the classes could receive an alternative program for section 3 according to the Professor’s decision. Sections 1. and 2. will be the same for not attendants too.

Oral examination can be held only after passing a preliminary written test lasting three hours,. The written test consists of questions (a part of which with answers to be ticked) and analysis of the poetic text. Everything is related only to section 1. of the course’s syllabus. The result of the written test is valid for sixteen months guarantees access to the oral examination, which consists of a discussion of the written test and of sections 2 and 3 of the syllabus (ten Canti of Dante’s Inferno and the whole course).
A didactic seminar will be dedicated to the analysis of texts chosen among those included in the general part, in order to prepare the exam. A tutoring service is provided for helping to prepare students in need (especially foreign students, but not only). Further information will be granted at the beginning of the course.

Attendance is strongly recommended. Students who are unable to attend the classes could receive an alternative program for section 3 according to the Professor’s decision. Sections 1. and 2. will be the same for not attendants too.