MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I SP

The course belongs to the master's degree program in Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature. Its purpose is to deepen the critical knowledge of Italian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and that of the fundamental tools for textual interpretation, so as to provide students with the necessary skills to contextualize the authors examined, to analyze the texts to rhetorical and stylistic level and achieve the capacity to interpret them in a reasonably autonomous way.

By the end of this course, the student will have acquired extensive knowledge and advanced skills in the methodological field related to 19th and 20th centuries Italian literature, and a developed awareness of the plurality of critical-methodological approaches to the text, with particular attention to the rhetorical-stylistic processes. In fact, it is expected to be able to understand, to analyze and to interpret the literary texts object of the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and to examine themes, topics and ideas developed by the treated authors, to organize the contents in appropriate synthesis.

To adequately follow the lessons, the student must possess the essential lines of the history of Italian literature and easily move between the texts and the authors of greater importance, recognize the formal and linguistic aspects of a text, have a good knowledge of the Italian language written and oral.

Representing reality: the narrative of Giovanni Verga.
The module proposes the reading of some of the most significant texts of Giovanni Verga's production, with the aim of highlighting his experimentalism and openness towards the twentieth century. Using the sample method, some of the short stories (from "Vita dei campi", "Novelle rusticane", "Per le vie") and excerpts from the "Malavoglia" and "Mastro-don Gesualdo" will be read.

Texts:
Any integral edition of the Novelle, of the "Malavoglia" and of the "Mastro-don Gesualdo": the BUR and Mondadori editions are recommended.

Studies:
- Pierluigi Pellini,"Verga", Bologna, il Mulino, 2012;
- Romano Luperini, "Giovanni Verga. Saggi (1976-2018)", Roma, Carocci, 2019.
- Notes from lectures.

Non-attending students will add: Riccardo Castellana, "Lo spazio dei vinti: una lettura antropologica di Verga", Roma, Carocci, 2022.

The examination is oral, and aims to be assured in the mastery of the topics addressed in class, the ability to frame, understand and analyze the texts that have been presented in class, the knowledge of the secondary bibliography assigned.
The evaluation criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and the elements of historical-cultural contextualization of the literary texts at the highest level of knowledge deepened of the contents and the ability of critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.

Lectures: discussion of historical-literary and theoretical issues and analysis of the texts to be studied.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development