ITALIAN LITERATURE FROM 17TH TO 19TH C.
| Official course title | LETTERATURA ITALIANA SECOLI XVII-XIX |
| Academic Year | 2009/2010 |
| Course code | FT0123 |
| University credits | 6 |
| Subdivision | Part-time |
| Degree level | First Cycle Degree M.D.270 |
| Educational sector code | L-FIL-LET/10 |
| Semester/trimester | 4° Periodo |
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Contents
Educational Goals
Part two. From Baroque to Romantic age, trough the literary developement from Renaissance classicism to XVIIth century's experimentation, from XVIIth century's observations about student's role within society to post-revolutionary comparison with European Poetics. The lessons, following the criteria of first part, will offer a general picture of the historical-literary development and a selection of critical reflections on some precipous topics.
Requirements
it would be better that learners have some Knowledge of European history from the beginning of XVIIth Century to the half of XIXth Century.
Contents
Part two. Baroque and criticism: a troubling Concept. How XVIIth Century's literature changed Cinquecento's Classicism. Themes: from Tasso to Marino and Tassoni: developing Narrative plots from epics to parody. Lyrical poetry: the 'concettismo'. Scientific prose as mannered or practical writing: Galileo and Daniello Bartoli. The 'romanzo' as a new Genre. Reactions to Baroque; 'Arcadia' Academy; Gravina and Vico. The 'Società dei lumi' looking for a renewed intellectual Class. Theatre. Carlo Goldoni and the comedy. The tragedy from Scipione Maffei to Vittorio Alfieri. Giuseppe Parini. 'Ego' going to be subject of poetry: the late Arcadia, Alfieri, monti, Cesarotti. Preromantic and Romantic literature in Italy, tested by Historical developement: Foscolo, Berchet. The romanticismo, an unusual poetic. Postrevolutionary letters facing to History, Politics and Mankind: Manzoni and Leopardi.
Recommended Reading List
C. Segre - C. Martignoni, . Letteratura, testi, culture, Milano, Edizioni scolastiche Bruno Mondadori, 2001 (e succ.), voll. 1-3;
P. Gibellini - G. Oliva - G. Tesio, Il Percorso letterario. Storia e antologia della letteratura italiana, Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, 1995 (e succ.), voll. 1-2.
G. Getto, Barocco in prosa e poesia, Milano, Rizzoli, 1969; J. A. Maravall, La cultura del Barocco, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1985; Lectura Marini, a c. di F. Guardiani, Toronto, Dovehouse Editions, 1989; L'uomo Barocco, a c. di P. Villari, Bari, Laterza, 1996; G. Jori, Per evidenza. Conoscenza e segni nell'età barocca, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998; G. Parini, Il Giorno, a c. di D. Isella - commento di M. Tizi, Parma, Ugo Guanda - Fondazione PIetro Bembo, 1996 (in particolare l'Introduzione di Isella, vol. I, pp. XXIV-CIX); I. Crotti, P. Vescovo, R. Ricorda, Il"Mondo vivo". Aspetti del romanzo, del teatro e del giornalismo nel Settecento italiano, Padova, Il POligrafo, 2001; C. Dionisotti, Appunti sui moderni. Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni e altri, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988.
Assessment
Verbal Proof.
Teaching Language
Italian
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Learners unable to come to the Lessons are requested to a rendez-vous with teacher, in order to define a different program.
