2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-FIL-LET/13 (PHILOLOGY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN PHILOLOGY. SCIENCE OF LITERATURE THEATRE CINEMA

Filologico-letterario

2°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

RICCARDI CARLA - 6 ECTS

Students must have acquired at least 18 CFU of Italian Literature during the three-year degree. Students who have a lower number of CFU will have a program supplement.

The course aims to provide the student with the knowledge, in direct and autonomous form, of the principal tools and methods of study related to the discipline, as well as to extend the fee of the authors and the texts dealt with during the three year degree courses

The Italian novel of the nineteenth century with particular reference to Vita dei campi e Novelle rusticane by Giovanni Verga. The topic will have a historical-critical-theoretical introduction to short fiction, structures, the relationship between macrotesto and texts of novelist collections. It will be briefed on the birth of the novel in general and in Italy in particular, for the specific texts will be illustrated the philological paths that led to the critical editions and will provide tools for their interpretation and for the correct acquisition of the ecdotic methodology for the reading of the textual apparatus.
the Verga's novels will be read and analyzed from a historical-critical point of view, will highlight the structure, novelty in Italian literary production, stylistic and linguistic aspects

It will begin by illustrating the short-story historical-critical and theoretical way by referring to studies beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century to arrive at the most recent discussions on macrotesto and politesto by referring to the texts of the Italian tradition from Novellino to the verismo's short stories.
The reading of the texts will be the crucial moment of the course in which it will be deepened at all levels.
Students are offered the full reading of the texts indicated.

Parte GENERALE:

Recommended Textbook: C.Riccardi (con la collaborazione di A.Peonia e B.Rodà), Letteratura d’Italia. Dall’'Ottocento al primo Novecento, Milano, Unicopli, 2014 + antologia su supporto informatico:http://www.bookrepublic.it/book/9788840017853-letteratura-ditalia/

http://www.ultimabooks.it/letteratura-d-italia

http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/ebook/9788840017853/autore-riccardi-carla/letteratura-d-italia-e-book.htm


CORSO MONOGRAFICO
G. Verga, Vita dei campi, edizione critica a cura di C.Riccardi, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di G.Verga, Firenze, le Monnier, 1987
G.Verga, Novelle rusticane, edizione critica a cura di G.Forni, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di G.Verga, Novara, Interlinea, 2016. Racconti italiani dell'Ottocento, introduzione di C.Riccardi, Milano, Mondadori, 2005 (leggere Introduzione)

Saggi critico-teorici:
H. Bonheim, The Narrative Modes. Techniques of the Short Story,
Brewer, Cambridge 1982; M.L. Pratt, The Short Story: The Long
and The Short of It, in «Poetics», X, 1981. Si veda anche P. De
Meijer, La prosa narrativa moderna, in Letteratura italiana. Le forme
del testo. II. La prosa, Einaudi, Torino 1984.
V. Sklovskij, Teoria della prosa, Einaudi, Torino 1976.
E.M. Meletinskij, Introduzione alla poetica storica dell’epos e del
romanzo, Il Mulino, Bologna 1993.
Critical and theoretical deepenings:: M.Corti, Il viaggio testuale, Torino, Einaudi, 1978; C.Segre, Avviamento all'analisi del testo letterario, Torino, Einaudi, 1985; G.Cappello, La dimensione macrotestuale, Ravenna, Longo, 1998; M.Duyck, La raccolta di narrativa breve tra teoria e pratica, in "Critica letteraria", 40, 4, 2012; M.Duyck, The Short story Cycle, 2014; M.Santi, Simul styabunt...Note per una teoria politestuale, in "Allegoria", 69-70, 2015.

Examination takes place in oral form. The history skills of 19th century Italian literature from Monti to D'Annunzio will be verified. Knowledge of critical historical-critical data is required, the ability to analyze the texts introduced and annotated in the on-line edition of the manual is verified. Analysis in which narrative and / or lyric structures, content, language and style are to be taken into account.

The exam is unique and it is not possible to support the two parts of the two modules in two different appeals.