CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE-SECOND PART

The "Workshop" is addressed to students of the 2nd cycle degree courses who intend to choose a thesis in the field of Italian Literature from 18th to 20th Century or in the domain of literary criticism and theory of literature. Students attending the workshop will acquire a full mastery of the instruments for research in modern and contemporary literature and a complete knowledge of the most recent methodological perspectives.

1.Knowledge and understanding
- Know how to deal with methodologically updated literary and theoretical texts. To have a knowledge of the terminology related to the central problems of modern and contemporary literature, also in relation to the work already underway by the graduating students.
- Understand the meanings implicated in the act of reading, also as a cognitive practice of the literary and extra-literary field.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
- Use the key terms of the discipline correctly. Know how to apply the acquired knowledge to understand the peculiarities of the literary text compared to the other linguistic and non-linguistic codes.

3.Judgment skills.
- Acquire awareness of the meaning and the pragmatic value of reading. Knowing how to formulate and argue as coherently learned, also demonstrating to have gained an independent evaluation with respect to the contents transmitted.

4. Communication skills
Develop an approach both explanatory and interpretive, interacting with the recipient, real or virtual, to achieve a mature and autonomous awareness, attentive to the pragmatics of communication, not just literary.

Readings and analysis from recent methodological texts.

Read the text / read the world: the theories and practices of reading as an interpretative and cognitive process. The course examines the most relevant moments of reading theories, with particular attention to the various issues and the theoretical currents. Among the topics addressed: the reader character, reading with the body, the practices of reading in contemporary age.

Carmela Lombardi, "Lettura e letteratura. Quaranta anni di teoria", Napoli, Liguori, Editore, 2004.
Alberto Manguel, "Una storia della lettura", Milano, Feltrinelli, 2009.
Daniel Pennac, "Come un romanzo", Milano, Feltrinelli, 1993

For students who dont attend the lessons. Besides the above mentioned volumes:
Alberto Cadioli, "La ricezione", Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1998.
Aldo Nemesio, “Il lettore vagante. La percezione dei testi: letteratura, cinema e web”, Torino, Nuova Trauben, 2015.

According to the "Workshop" structure, bibliography will be given during the lessons

The verification of learning takes place through the drafting of a written report of about 10 pages, whose topic, relevant to the content of the course, and the relative bibliography are to be agreed with the lecturer. It also requires an oral presentation in which the student proves to be able to expose the chosen topic in problematic terms.

Teaching organized in the two parts of the first semester, the first of which includes lectures, while the second meetings and dialogues, mainly as seminars, with students’ presentations. In-depth knowledge analysis of concepts are planned, and further analysys are indicated in the classroom by the lecturer or requested by attending students, invited to intervene orally, in order to address the issues that might arise.

Italian

Students are allowed to attend this module even without having completed “Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature I SP” (Master´s level).
N.B.: within the 12 CFU credits to be covered in the field of "Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature/Contemporary Italian Literature", only 6 can be obtained through laboratory practice.

written and oral