SWEDISH LITERATURE 1

Swedish Literature 1 is offered at the first year of the BA-programme in Languages, Civilisation and the Science of Language (Lingue, Civiltà e Scienze del Linguaggio) to students who choose Swedish language as one of their two three-years languages. The course is crosswise valid for all of the three curricula of the BA-programme: Literatures and Culture; Linguistics, Philology and Language Teaching Research; International Politics and can also be attended as a freely chosen subject by students who are not studying Swedish as one of the two main languages. Swedish Literature 1 is a “core educational” (type B) or an “interdisciplinary” (type C) activity, according to whether Swedish is chosen as first or second language.
The course aims at giving a basic knowledge of the Swedish and Scandinavian literary and cultural heritage, providing the students with the right tools for the thematic and formal analysis of the literary text and developing their individual orienting and summarising skills, as well as their understanding of how this subject can relate to the aesthetic, social and existential issues of our time.

Knowledge and understanding:
Swedish Literature 1 is an institutional introductory course as it offers an outline of Swedish and Scandinavian history from the Middle Ages to the first decade of the Twentieth Century, with a monographic module on the literary movements and leading writers between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, that will explore the link between the formal renewal of the novel and the crisis of the modern subject.
Application skills:
The aim of the course is to provide the students with the right tools for the literary-historical and social contextualisation of the leading authors and texts from the Middle Ages to the first decade of the Scandinavian Twentieth Century.
Judgement skills:
The course is meant to develop the individual orienting and summarising ability with regards to the addressed subject, as well as the understanding of how this subject can relate to the aesthetic, social and existential issues of our time.
Communicative skills:
Students will be required to expose their knowledge of literary history and their considerations on the texts using the proper terminology during examinations as well as in class.
Learning skills:
Students are expected to have the appropriate skills to take notes and potentially to share them on line as well as to critically consult the reference bibliography.

None. The course is addressed to beginners in the field of Scandinavian languages and literatures.

Outline of Swedish and Scandinavian literature from the Middle Ages to the first decade of the Twentieth Century.

In-depth analysis on the links between the formal renovation of the novel and the crisis of the modern subject between the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

1) General part:
File pdf “Storia letteratura Nord1_2018-19”
All course-related contents uploaded on Moodle.

2) Studied works
A selction from: Edda di Snorri, Adelphi, 1975.
A selction from: Asbjørnsen e Moe, Fiabe norvegesi, Einaudi, 1962.
A selction from: La lirica di E.J. Stagnelius, Ariele, 1998 e da E.G. Geijer, Poesie, Ariele, 2000.
Herman Bang, I quattro diavoli, Iperborea, 1990.
Henrik Ibsen, Casa di bambola, Einaudi, 1963.
August Strindberg, Signorina Julie, in Teatro naturalistico 2, Adelphi, 1982.
A selction from: Selma Lagerlöf, Il meraviglioso viaggio di Nils Holgersson, Iperborea, 2017.
Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne, Iperborea, 1995.
Knut Hamsun, Fame, Adelphi, 1974.
Hjalmar Söderberg, Il dottor Glas, Giano, 2004.

3) Critical studies
Fulvio Ferrari, "Henrik Ibsen. Verità significa diventare se stessi", Uomini e libri, 110, 1986, pp. 24-33.
Fulvio Ferrari, "August Strindberg. Il mio fuoco è il più grande della Svezia", Uomini e Libri, 105, 1985, pp. 26-34.
Sara Culeddu, “Aperture sul vuoto in Fame di Knut Hamsun. Il romanzo dell’assenza”, in Studi Nordici, XIII, 2006, pp. 41-49,
Massimo Ciaravolo, “Postfazione”, in H. Söderberg, Il gioco serio, 2000, pp. 273-284.
Alessandro Fambrini, “Introduzione”, in H. Bang, I quattro diavoli, Iperborea, 1990, pp. 105-112.
Lars Gustafsson, “Postfazione”, in Selma Lagerlöf, La saga di Gösta Berling, Iperborea, 2007, pp. 480-496.
Claudio Magris, “Postfazione”, in J.P. Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne, Iperborea, 2017, pp. 260-284.

4) Optional studies or Additional studies for students who have not attended the course
Gianna Chiesa Isnardi, Storia e cultura della Scandinavia, Bompiani, 2015: Capitolo 5, pp. 283-326; Cap. 8.2, pp. 490-524; Cap. 11.3, pp. 913-945; cap. 12.4, pp. 1073-1109.
Carla Del Zotto e Luca Taglianetti (trad.), “Racconti e leggende popolari norvegesi”, in Studi Nordici, XVIII, 2011, pp. 91-98.
Claudio Magris, “Fra le crepe dell’io: Knut Hamsun”, in L’anello di Clarisse. Grande stile e nichilismo nella letteratura moderna, Einaudi,1984, pp. 142-164.
Claudio Magris, "Il tardo Ibsen e le megalomanie della vita", in L'anello di Clarisse. Grande stile e nichilismo nella letteratura moderna, Einaudi, 1984, pp. 86-119.

Students will sit an oral exam, in Italian, lasting approximately 20 minutes. The exam will focus on some of the works presented during the course, inserted in their historical, cultural and social context as well as in the poetics of their authors.
Students will have to show a thorough knowledge of the course topics, as well as the ability to present them in an appropriate form and to easily relate the specific texts to their context.
Non-attending students must complete the learning material with additional studies and come to office hours at least once before sitting the exam.

The course offers mainly frontal lectures, but with moments of voluntary participatory learning, as students may present in class one of the works included in the syllabus.

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If you have any questions or need further explanations, please write to sara.culeddu@unive.it.
Booking office hours with the professor by email is highly recommended (a weekly timetable will be provided).
Student who cannot attend the course must contact the teacher in order to discuss supplementary learning material.

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