30931 - Italian Literature 1 (G-N)

Course contents

Manzoni, History and the Novel

Reading and commenting on a choice of 20 cantos from Dante's Comedy is also required, as well as the knowledge of Italian literary history from the second half of the Eighteenth Century to the first half of the Twentieth, with a specific regard to the following literary movements and authors: Goldoni, Alfieri, Neoclassicism, Foscolo, Romanticism, Manzoni, Leopardi, the "Scapigliatura", Verism, Verga, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, Pirandello, Svevo, Futurism, the Crepuscolarismo, Ungaretti, Montale.

Readings/Bibliography

Dante, Commedia, ed. by E. Pasquini-A. Quaglio, Milano, Garzanti, or by A.M. Chiavacci, Bologna, Zanichelli

One of the following anthologies is also recommended:
C. Segre, C. Martignoni, Testi nella storia, Milano, Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori
R. Luperini, La scrittura e l'interpretazione, Palermo, Palumbo
E. Raimondi, G.M. Anselmi et al., Tempi e immagini della letteratura, Milano, Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori
M. Santagata et al., Il filo rosso. Antologia e storia della letteratura italiana ed europea, Roma-Bari, Laterza

A good guide to the theorical and technical problems is P. Giovannetti, La letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea. Guida allo studio, Roma, Carocci, 2001.

Specific bibliography will be given during the course.

Non attending students are required to contact the teacher directly (not by mail) to define an alternative programme with integrative bibliography.

Teaching methods

Lectures and analyses of literary texts.

Assessment methods

Written and oral exams.

Teaching tools

Some texts will be available on the Internet (http://campus.cib.unibo.it)

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Baffetti