CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

The course is inserted between the basic disciplines common to the Program of Study and aims to provide an adequate critical knowledge of Contemporary Italian literature and the fundamental tools for the textual interpretation. The teaching activity aims to start an analysis historically and philologically aware of the literary texts, founded on the mastery of the technical language. Because of the broad scope of the subject matter, different topics will be chosen each year. The general perspective will be open to making comparisons with European and Extra-European literature.
The objectives to be achieved are functional to the course of study, are aimed at making reach to the student good critical skills based on appropriate knowledge, and a comparative spirit able to link with profit the other disciplines of the three years.

1) orientation in the contemporary Italian literary landscape 2) identification of the proposed texts and ability to comment with other Italian and foreign texts. 3) ability to present the authors and works proposed in the course in an argumented and clear way with intelligent choice of the basic critical bibliography.

Good knowledge of Italian language and interest in literature. Awareness of their language skills and criticisms, and commitment to improve them

"Satura" by Eugenio Montale, "Filò " by Andrea Zanzotto and the Italian poetry in the 1970s.

"Satura" comes out in 1971 and introduces a new poetic time. It will mark a turning point in contemporary Italian and European poetry.
"Filò ", a dialect collection by Andrea Zanzotto, tied in his first part to the film "Casanova " by Fellini, first came out in 1976 with five drawings and a letter from the director. It is an important articulation in the Zanzotto's poetics.

From the reading and analysis of these two works we will be analyse the vast and complex panorama of contemporary Italian poetry.
It is also expected a conversation with the composer Claudio Ambrosini, who in 2004 has produced a musical composition for Filò.

Manuals to be chosen : 1) CLAUDIO GIUNTA: "CUORI INTELLIGENTI. Mille anni di letteratura". Volume 3 B Dal secondo Novecento a oggi", Milano, Garzanti Scuola. Edizione Blu, 2016. or Alberto Casadei, Marco Santagata, Manuale di Letteratura italiana contemporanea; or other manual to be agreed with the teacher.

Selected pages that will be commented of "Prologhi ed epilogh"i by M.A. Grignani
F.De Rosa, Profilo di Satura, in Chroniques italiennes n. 57 (1/199) (in web);
Fernando Bandini, Zanzotto dalla Heimat al mondo, in Zanzotto, Le poesie e le prose scelte (Mondadori, I Meridiani)
Further bibliography will be indicated during the course.

The assessment is made on the basis of an oral examination (about 15 minutes). The exam takes place starting from a detailed comment of a passage from the works analysed during the course. Students are also asked to show their knowledge of the whole work from a critical, exegetical and philological point of view, alongside a good familiarity with the broader historical-literary context within which the work was written.
Clearness of exposition, pertinence of language and terminology competence are taken into account for the assessment. A written exercise will be proposed to be delivered 10 days before the chosen appeal. The tutorial modes will be illustrated in lesson

Traditional methods with educational materials online.

Not attending students are requested to meet the professor, and they will add one of the following books, at their choice:
Maria Borio, "Satura". Da Montale alla lirica contemporanea, Fabrizio Serra ed. euro 19
Giulio Ferroni, "Gli ultimi poeti", Milano, Il saggiatore, 2013

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