28991 - Contemporary Italian Literature (LM)

Learning outcomes

The student is  familiar with different textual expressions, main authors and general lines of the critical debate of literature in the Italian language in the contemporary context. Knows how to use methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of literary text.

Course contents

The course has a duration of five weeks, equal to 30 hours of lectures.
Two weeks will be devoted to introducing the authors and the lines of development of the twentieth-century Italian novel. In the following weeks, will be deepened the analysis of the texts, focusing on the forms of the fictional narrative that reread, rewrite, and reinterpret the events related to history.

Readings/Bibliography

Leonardo Sciascia, La strega e il capitano, Adelphi, 1999

Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera, Rizzoli 2014

Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani, 2020

Il nome della rosa, regia di Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986

Il nome della rosa - serie TV, regia di Giacomo Battiato, 2019

 

Students will study the following critical tests:

Sergia Adamo, La giustizia del dimanticato. Sulla linea giudiziaria nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, in Postmodern Impegno, cura di P. P. Antonello, F. Mussgnug, Bern, Peter Lang, pp. 259-287.

Bruno Pischedda, Eco: guida a Il nome della rosa, Carocci, 2016.

 

Leonardo Sciascia, La strada e il capitano, Adelphi, 1999

Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera, Rizzoli 2014

Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani, 2020

Il nome della rosa, regia di Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986

Il nome della rosa - serie TV, regia di Giacomo Battiato, 2019

 

Testi critici da studiare:

Sergia Adamo, La giustizia del dimanticato. Sulla linea giudiziaria nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, in Postmodern Impegno, cura di P. P. Antonello, F. Mussgnug, Bern, Peter Lang, pp. 259-287.

Bruno Pischedda, Eco: guida a Il nome della rosa, Carocci, 2016.

 

The syllabus remains unchanged for non-attending students. Additional exam preparation materials will be made available on the Virtual platform that are also useful for those who did not attend class.

Teaching methods

The lessons are, most of all, lectures held by the teacher. During the lessons, students will be encouraged to participate. We will use also some tools to support teaching, especially power-point. Movies and documentaries will be shown for the contextualization of readings scheduled. Finally, scholars will be invited for some specific issues and for the presentation of some texts and authors.

Assessment methods

The oral test consists in an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the critical and methodological ability of the students. The students will be invited to discuss the tests on the course programme. The student must demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme.

Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the lessons, are able to use these critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.

Those students who demonstrate a mnemonic knowledge of the subject with a more superficial analytical ability and ability to synthesize, a correct command of the language but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark.

A superficial knowledge and understanding of the material, a scarce analytical and expressive ability that is not always appropriate will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark.

Teaching tools

In addition to face-to-face lectures, given by the course chair, audiovisual tools will be used to support teaching. Scholars who can bring a significant contribution to the in-depth study of the topics on which the course focuses will also be invited.

Office hours

See the website of Giuliana Benvenuti