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30931 - Italian Literature 1 (GR. 2)

Academic Year 2011/2012

Docente: Francesco Sberlati
Credits: 9
Language: Italian

Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Campus: Bologna
Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)

Learning outcomes

Students will achieve a good knowledge of Italian language and literature, according to a methodological deepening in textual and historical analysis.

Course contents

The whole course of Italian Literature includes two units. The first unit (introductive course) will face Italian literary history between XIX and early XX Centuries. Within the first unit students are also requested to read Dante Alighieri's Purgatory, cantos I-XII. The second unit will focus on some authors or works. Please, refer to the scheduled academic calendar for length and terms of each unit.

I unit (general section): History of Italian Literature of XIX and early XX Centuries (1815-1920).

II unit (specific section): National Identity and Literary Tradition in Italy in XIX Century.

A punctual attendance of lectures is recommended, especially for the second unit.

Warnings and remarks. The present is the only outline for Italian Literature examination. Previous outlines are no more valid. Changes from a course to another, or from a professor to another, are not permitted.

Readings/Bibliography

I section. Students are requested to read the following books:

GIULIO FERRONI, Storia della letteratura italiana, volume III. Dall'Ottocento al Novecento, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, 1998;

or, by choice, ALBERTO ASOR ROSA, Storia europea della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi, 2009, volume II. Dalla decadenza al Risorgimento, pp. 307-634, and volume III. La letteratura della Nazione, pp. 3-257;

and moreover VITTORIO RODA (ed.), Manuale di italianistica, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2005, pp. 13-130.

It is also requested the reading of DANTE ALIGHIERI's Purgatory, cantos I-XII. The following updated editions are recommended: E. PASQUINI - A. QUAGLIO (eds.), Milano, Garzanti, 1988; U. BOSCO - G. REGGIO (eds.), Firenze, Le Monnier, 2000; B. GARAVELLI - L. MAGUGLINI (eds.), Milano, BUR, 2000; T. DI SALVO (ed.), Bologna, Zanichelli, 2003; P. STOPPELLI (ed.), Bologna, Zanichelli, 2008.

II section. Students are requested to closely read the following specific books:

EZIO RAIMONDI, Letteratura e identità nazionale, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2002, chapters 1, 2, 3;

FRANCESCO SBERLATI, Filologia e identità nazionale. Una tradizione per l'Italia unita (1840-1940), Palermo, Sellerio, 2011, chapters I, II, III.

Those who will not attend lectures are requested to read, additionally, LUCA SERIANNI, Il secondo Ottocento. Dall'Unità alla prima guerra mondiale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001, pp. 15-154 (series Storia della lingua italiana).

Teaching methods

Lectures on courses themes, connected with information about bibliographic references, using pc, web sites, slides, overhead projector.

Assessment methods

Propaedeutic paper on topics strictly related to the course themes. After the paper, students will face discussion about the whole course topics, including analysis of literary texts.

Please note. The paper is valid for two academic years.