Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the main tools and methods of study relating to discipline, and to expand the canon of authors and texts covered during the 1st degree courses (Laurea triennale) of Italian Literature
Reccomended or required readings
GENERAL SECTION
The Italian literature of the second half of the nineteenth century: Carducci, the Melodrama, Collodi. De Amicis, Salgari, De Marchi, Fogazzaro, Verga, Capuana, De Roberto, D'Annunzio, Pascoli.
Manual recommended: C. Bologna, P. Rocchi, "Rosa fresca aulentissima", vol. 5 ("Naturalismo e Decadentismo"), Torino, Loescher, 2010.
MONOGRAPHIC COURSE
G. Pascoli, Myricae, a cura di G. Lavezzi, BUR, 2015
P. V. Mengaldo, Un'introduzione a Myricae, in La tradizione del Novecento, Nuova serie, Vallecchi, 1987, pp. 79-137.
The critical bibliography will be provided during the lectures.