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B001526 - ITALIAN LITERATURE
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Academic Year 2021-22
Coorte 2021 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PROJECT AND MANAGEMENT FOR CULTURAL ENTERPRISE
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
13/09/2021 ⇒ 03/12/2021
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The present Course will consist of the reading and critical analysis of selected texts, belonging to the core canon of the Italian Literature. Such texts will be of high eminence, both from the artistic and historic point of view, and especially in relation with the establishment of the Italian national identity.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Course title: Rebel literature:
Scapigliatura's narrative and the anguish of modernity.
Texts:
Full reading of:
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, "Fosca"
Giovanni Verga, "Eva"
Arrigo Boito, "L'alfier nero"
Camillo Boito, "Senso"
These texts can be read in any modern edition.
Critical essays:
R. Bruscagli, G. Tellini, "Letteratura e storia", vol. 5. "L'età del realismo", pp. 23-29, 38-44, 99-133.
G. Tellini, "Storia del romanzo italiano", Firenze, Le Monnier Università, capp. VII e VIII, pp. 146-206.
G. Rosa, "La narrativa scapigliata", Roma, Laterza, 1997, or Bologna, CUEM, 2010, capp. 1 e 2, pp. 3-36.
Other study support materials will be provided via the moodle platform (e-l.unifi.it)
Scapigliatura's narrative and the anguish of modernity.
Texts:
Full reading of:
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, "Fosca"
Giovanni Verga, "Eva"
Arrigo Boito, "L'alfier nero"
Camillo Boito, "Senso"
These texts can be read in any modern edition.
Critical essays:
R. Bruscagli, G. Tellini, "Letteratura e storia", vol. 5. "L'età del realismo", pp. 23-29, 38-44, 99-133.
G. Tellini, "Storia del romanzo italiano", Firenze, Le Monnier Università, capp. VII e VIII, pp. 146-206.
G. Rosa, "La narrativa scapigliata", Roma, Laterza, 1997, or Bologna, CUEM, 2010, capp. 1 e 2, pp. 3-36.
Other study support materials will be provided via the moodle platform (e-l.unifi.it)
Learning Objectives
Knowledge: The course involves a general introduction to the features of Italian narrative of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a specific study of the artistic movement of Scapigliatura, with reading and commentary of some novels and short stories. The course includes preliminary notions of text analysis, rhetoric and philology, besides presenting the main tools for study of Italian literature.
Competence: The course involves a first look at scientific editions from Italian literary tradition as well as bibliographical sources; it will also prepare students to use text commentary tools properly; students will have a first experience with bibliographical research in the library; their public speaking skills will be put to test.
Competence: The course involves a first look at scientific editions from Italian literary tradition as well as bibliographical sources; it will also prepare students to use text commentary tools properly; students will have a first experience with bibliographical research in the library; their public speaking skills will be put to test.
Prerequisites
An excellent knowledge of the Italian language is necessary, as are mastery of grammatical and syntactical structures of written Italian, good ability to read literary and critical texts, as well as reasonable competence in using dictionaries and commentaries. Finally, an important prerequisite is a thorough knowledge of the Italian historical events of the second half of the nineteenth century.
Teaching Methods
Lectures. Students are encouraged to participate, to ask for explanations, to suggest interpretations and comments and to maintain a direct interaction with the teacher, also during the weekly office hours as well as through electronic means.
Further information
Attendance in person is highly recommended, as the course will largely consist of reading and commenting on the texts. Due to the health emergency, the lessons are still streamed and remain available to students on the Webex platform, so there are no program differences between attending and non-attending students.
Type of Assessment
Students will be tested in an end-of-course oral examination (lasting about twenty minutes), which assesses general knowledge of:
- data and concepts related to the Italian narrative of the second half of the nineteenth century and the artistic movement of the Scapigliatura, with particular regard to writers the works covered during the course;
- the texts of the novels "Fosca" by Tarchetti and "Eva" by Verga, and the short stories "L'alfier nero" by Arrigo Boito and "Senso" by Camillo Boito, in a full reading;
- the content of the lectures and any materials made available on the moodle page;
- the critical essays in the course program.
Students must demonstrate the following skills:
- to be able to read, interpret and comment correctly the texts covered by the course ("Fosca" by Tarchetti, "Eva" by Verga, "L'alfier nero" by Arrigo Boito, "Senso" by Camillo Boito) in their entirety, with particular attention to the pages analyzed in class;
- to possess sufficient oral exposition skills, with a correct use of the proper terminology;
- hopefully, to have a minimum personal critical processing capacity of what has been studied.
- data and concepts related to the Italian narrative of the second half of the nineteenth century and the artistic movement of the Scapigliatura, with particular regard to writers the works covered during the course;
- the texts of the novels "Fosca" by Tarchetti and "Eva" by Verga, and the short stories "L'alfier nero" by Arrigo Boito and "Senso" by Camillo Boito, in a full reading;
- the content of the lectures and any materials made available on the moodle page;
- the critical essays in the course program.
Students must demonstrate the following skills:
- to be able to read, interpret and comment correctly the texts covered by the course ("Fosca" by Tarchetti, "Eva" by Verga, "L'alfier nero" by Arrigo Boito, "Senso" by Camillo Boito) in their entirety, with particular attention to the pages analyzed in class;
- to possess sufficient oral exposition skills, with a correct use of the proper terminology;
- hopefully, to have a minimum personal critical processing capacity of what has been studied.
Course program
Course title: Rebel literature:
Scapigliatura's narrative and the anguish of modernity.
The course deals with the study of the Italian narrative of the second half of the nineteenth century, with particular regard to the artistic movement of Scapigliatura, which took place in Milan in the first post-unification decades, between 1860 and 1880, as an expression of concern and anguish of artists and writers in front of the fall of Romantic and Risorgimental values and the rise of modern urban and industrial development. The young "scapigliati" writers ("rebels" towards the Italian literary tradition, and often also towards the bourgeois order of society), open towards contemporary European experiences, face unprecedented themes in our narrative tradition (the ugly, the obsession, the fantastic), experience new expressive possibilities, introduce new anti-hero protagonists, and give space to unusual strong female figures.
While also paying attention to other artistic events - in the fields of painting, music, poetry - the course focuses on the novel and the short stories, through the reading and analysis of some significant texts: "Fosca" by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1869); "Eva" by Giovanni Verga (1873); "L'alfier nero" by Arrigo Boito (1868); "Senso" by Camillo Boito (1883).
Scapigliatura's narrative and the anguish of modernity.
The course deals with the study of the Italian narrative of the second half of the nineteenth century, with particular regard to the artistic movement of Scapigliatura, which took place in Milan in the first post-unification decades, between 1860 and 1880, as an expression of concern and anguish of artists and writers in front of the fall of Romantic and Risorgimental values and the rise of modern urban and industrial development. The young "scapigliati" writers ("rebels" towards the Italian literary tradition, and often also towards the bourgeois order of society), open towards contemporary European experiences, face unprecedented themes in our narrative tradition (the ugly, the obsession, the fantastic), experience new expressive possibilities, introduce new anti-hero protagonists, and give space to unusual strong female figures.
While also paying attention to other artistic events - in the fields of painting, music, poetry - the course focuses on the novel and the short stories, through the reading and analysis of some significant texts: "Fosca" by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1869); "Eva" by Giovanni Verga (1873); "L'alfier nero" by Arrigo Boito (1868); "Senso" by Camillo Boito (1883).