ITALIAN LITERATURE MOD.2

The course is inserted between the basic disciplines common to the Program of Study. Its principal aim
is to provide the student with the indispensable tools and rudiments of the discipline, and to start him
to a critical interpretation of the development of Italian literature. It's a monographical
course, and tend to pay special attention to the large field of Italian modern poetry. The general
perspective will be open to making comparisons with the European and Extra-european literatures.

At the end of the course, the student is expected to know: the authors and works
that have been dealt with during the course; the historical and literary context;
the secondary discussion about the topics proposed in the lessons. These particular knowledge will be
completed by a refinement of the critical and exegetical tools indispensable to the interpretation
of a literary text. So the student will be able to use such improvements in the whole field of Italian literature.

A good knowledge of Italian language.

The dream of the prisoner. Reading of " The Storm and other Poems" by Eugenio Montale.

E. MONTALE, Tutte le poesie, a cura di G. Zampa, Milano, Mondadori / Oscar, 1990 (and following reprints).
The students that will regularly attend the lessons can prepare the examination by means of their notes.
The students that cannot attend the lessons will prepare the examination by means of a detailed
bibliography, that will be sent by request.

Oral examination based on questions about the author and his works. Comment on the texts
discussed during the course.

The course is founded on the traditional form of the so called frontal lessons.

Italian

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