30635 - Italian Literature (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to have a deep knowledge on diachronical aspects of the Italian literary tradition, knows the critical discussion on the keys issues about texts and authors and is able to use the main tools of the methodological analysis of texts and contexts.

Course contents

Women in Revolt!

The course addresses, from a conceptual and thematic point of view, the topic of the feminine revolt in literature. In details: E. Ferrante, L'amica Geniale, Roma, E/O 2011; M. Cutrufelli, Maria Giudice: la leonessa del socialismo, Roma, Perrone, 2022; G. Sapienza, Arte della gioia, Turin, Einaudi, 2008. S. Aleramo, Una donna, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2013 or any edition.

Readings/Bibliography

Readings: E. Ferrante, L'amica Geniale, Roma, E/O 2011; M. Cutrufelli, Maria Giudice: la leonessa del socialismo, Roma, Perrone, 2022; G. Sapienza, Arte della gioia, Turin, Einaudi, 2008. S. Aleramo, Una donna, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2013 or any other edition.

Student programme Modern, comparative and post-colonial literatures: E. Ferrante, L'amica Geniale, Roma, E/O 2011; M. Cutrufelli, Maria Giudice: la leonessa del socialismo, Roma, Perrone, 2022 or the edition Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 2024; G. Sapienza, Arte della gioia, Torino, Einaudi, 2008.

Bibliography:

Su Goliarda Sapienza

• M. FARNETTI (ed. by), Appassionata Sapienza, Milan, La Tartaruga, 2011, pp. 89-100 and pp. 101-126;
• G. PROVIDENTI (ed. by), «Quel sogno d’essere» di Goliarda Sapienza. Percorsi critici su una delle maggiori autrici del Novecento italiano, Rome, Aracne, 2012, pp. 33-52;
• A BAZZONI, EMMA BOND, KATRIN WEHLING-GIORGI (a cura di), Goliarda Sapienza in Context. Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture, Lanham, Maryland, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016 (part 3, pp. 131-163; essay by L. Fortini, A. Bazzoni e G. Polizzi);
• A. BAZZONI, Writing for Freedom. Body, Identity and Power in Goliarda Sapienza’s Narrative, Bern-Switzerland, Peter Lang, 2018 (chapter, p. 91-165);
• M. RIZZARELLI, Goliarda Sapienza. Gli spazi della libertà, il tempo della gioia, Rome, Carocci, 2018;
• M. FARNETTI, Modesta nomade, in L’invenzione delle personagge, ed. by R. MAZZANTI, S. NEONATO, B. SARASINI, Rome, Iacobelli, 2016;
• C. ROSS, Goliarda Sapienza’s Eccentric Interruptions: Multiple selves, gender ambiguities and disrupted desires, in «altrelettere», gennaio 2012 available: https://www.altrelettere.uzh.ch/article/view/al_uzh-2;
• M. FARNETTI, Goliarda Sapienza e L’arte della gioia, in Tutte signore di mio gusto. Profili di scrittrici contemporanee, Milan, La Tartaruga, 2008, pp. 231-238.

On Elena Ferrante

• T. DE ROGATIS, Elena Ferrante: parole chiave, Roma, E/O, 2018, pp. 55-164 (available online in ebook on opac bolognese).

• L. BENEDETTI, Il inguaggio dell'amicizia e della città: L'amica geniale di E. Ferrante tra continuità e cambiamento, «Quaderni d’italianistica», XXXIII, No. 2, 2012, pp. 171-187.
• I. PINTO, Elena Ferrante. Poetiche e politiche della soggettività, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 75-86 and pp. 145-201.

The students will also read E. Rausa, Le invisibili, Milan, Neri Pozza, 2024. A meeting with the author is planned for the 18th of November 2024.
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Students of the Master's Degree in Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali will read works by Ferrante, Sapienza, Cutrufelli and the corresponding critical essays.

Teaching methods

The course will be divided in frontal lessons and laboratories on the texts.

Assessment methods

The exam is an oral interview on the course topics. 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.

Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the subject matter, inappropriate language use, lack of familiarity with the literature in the programme bibliography will not be given a pass mark.

Non attending students are required to do the same readings and to study the same bibliography of attending students.

Teaching tools

Audio and video aids may be used in support of lectures.

Office hours

See the website of Lara Michelacci