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 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.
The achievement of these instructional goals allows the student to acquire the bases for an in-depth learning of the culture and society of the triennial languages developing the skills of comparison and evaluation.

By the end of the course the student will know the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization and will know how to correctly use a specialistic lexicon of base. 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 operating comparisons between texts also belonging to the European literature, to formulate a reasoned judgment of value.

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

The first Nineteenth Century. From the Napoleonic age to the Risorgimentale motions. The historical and cultural context. Literature and national identity. The novel of the Risorgimento. From the wound of the past to the future Italy: from "Le Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" of Foscolo to "Le Confessioni d’un Italiano" of Nievo.
In the first part we will introduce the period with an review of the main issues; in the second will be addressed the genre of the novel, deepening its relations with contemporary political events through the study of the two protagonists of the novels of Foscolo and Nievo, Jacopo Ortis and Carlo Altoviti.

The manual for the general part should be chosen from A. Casadei, M. Santagata, "Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna", Laterza, 2007, and A. Battistini (edited by), "Letteratura ita-liana. 1: Dal Settecento ai nostri giorni!, Il Mulino, 2014, pp. 187-244 and 274-279 (or R. Bonavita, "L’Ottocento", Il Mulino, 2005, capp. 1-3). Alternatively you can use a good literature handbook.
For the steps commented a lesson requires the reading of U. Foscolo, "Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" (a paperback with comment, chosen from among those commercially available: Carocci, Ei-naudi, Feltrinelli, Oscar Mondadori), and I. Nievo, "Le Confessioni d’un Italiano" (a paperback chosen from among those commercially available: Marsilio, Oscar Mondadori, Garzanti, Bur, Feltrinelli).
The teaching materials commented during the lessons will be inserted in the e-learning platform "Moodle" of the University of Venice.
Students not attending lessons will read also G. Langella, "Le piccole patrie, e la grande", in "Amor di patria. Manzoni e altra letteratura del Risorgimento", Interlinea, 2005, pp. 179-262.

The final verification of learning consists in an oral exam about 30 minutes on the topics dealt with and examined on texts. The student must demonstrate understanding of the historical and cultural context, subject of course to be able to regulate, analyze and comment in an appropriate manner the texts and to be able to expose correctly and clearly the contents.
The assessment criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of the correct understanding of the meanings and elements of contextualization historical-cultural and literary texts at the highest level of knowledge of the contents and the capacity for critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.

The course will use lecture-style presentation with multimedia support (Word and Power Point with the video projector).
The didactic materials used to lesson will be available on the e-learning platform "Moodle" of University, where self-assessment tests will be inserted.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development