MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I SP

The course belongs to the master's degree program in Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature. Its purpose is to deepen the critical knowledge of Italian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and that of the fundamental tools for textual interpretation, so as to provide students with the necessary skills to contextualize the authors examined, to analyze the texts to rhetorical and stylistic level and achieve the capacity to interpret them in a reasonably autonomous way.

By the end of this course, the student will have acquired extensive knowledge and advanced skills in the methodological field related to 19th and 20th centuries Italian literature, and a developed awareness of the plurality of critical-methodological approaches to the text, with particular attention to the rhetorical-stylistic processes. In fact, 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.

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

Svevo’s metawritings

Starting from the incipit of “Una vita” (the letter that Alfonso Nitti wrote to his mother), Italo Svevo's writing is configured as a writing that reflects on itself, on its objects of representation and on the (possible) relationships of this with reality. It becomes a reflection on writing, which closes the nineteenth century and which Svevo will carry forward in subsequent novels and diaries.
Through a sample reading of the three novels, the course aims to identify and reconstruct the stages of a discourse with which the Trieste writer rediscusses and breaks the link between writing and reality, and constitutes the primary foundation of his irony.

Texts:
Any integral edition of t"Una vita", "Senilità", La coscienza di Zeno".

Studies:
- Claudio Gigante e Massimiliano Tortora (a cura di), "Svevo", Roma, Carocci, 2021;
- Notes from lectures.

The examination is oral, and aims to be assured in the mastery of the topics addressed in class, the ability to frame, understand and analyze the texts that have been presented in class, the knowledge of the secondary bibliography assigned.
The evaluation criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and the elements of historical-cultural contextualization of the literary texts at the highest level of knowledge deepened of the contents and the ability of critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.

Lectures: discussion of historical-literary and theoretical issues and analysis of the texts to be studied.

Italian

Bibliography in progress

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