28997 - Italian Twentieth-Century Poetry (LM) (M-Z)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course: 1. The student has the theoretical knowledge to put 20th-century poetry in the context of the intellectual movements and history of ideas of European culture and civilization. 2. The student commands a methodology of analysis of 20th-century poetry characterized by rhetorical, stylistic, and linguistic viewpoints through an intertextual, interdisciplinary lens.

Course contents

Main topic:

Forms and functions of Intertextuality in XXth-Century Italian Poetry

The course aims to:

1) examine the notion of the poetic text as a place of intersections, overlaps and collisions between different texts, codes and discourses embodying conflicting ideological orientations;

2) analyse and compare imitations, alterations, transformations of some thematic-structural elements of D’Annunzio’s Alcyone and Pascoli’s Myricae in the 20th Century, from Guido Gozzano to Dino Campana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Andrea Zanzotto, Amelia Rosselli and the Novissimi.

 

It is strongly recommended to attend the first introductory lesson about the bibliography of the course and the assessment methods (explained in detail at the bottom of the page). Students are also invited to access the Teaching resources on Virtuale platform before the start of the course.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en ) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Further information about course, program and assessment methods will be provided in class and during Office hours (not by email).

Readings/Bibliography

Literary texts

Below are listed only the books from which the texts will be chosen. The texts of the poems to be prepared for the exam (pdf) will be available on the platform Teaching resources on Virtuale since the beginning of the lectures. 

• Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, ed. by G. Lavezzi, Milano, BUR, 2015.
• Gabriele d’Annunzio, Alcyone, ed. by F. Roncoroni, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 1995 (or other annotated edition).
• Guido Gozzano, La signorina Felicita ovvero La Felicità, in ID., Poesie e prose, ed. by L. Lenzini, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008.
• Dino Campana, Canti Orfici, ed. by F. Ceragioli, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014; alternatively: Canti Orfici e altre poesie, ed. by R. Martinoni, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Il Porto Sepolto, ed. by C. Ossola, Venezia, Marsilio, 1990; alternatively: G. Ungaretti, Il Porto Sepolto, in N. Lorenzini-S. Colangelo (ed. by), Giuseppe Ungaretti, Le Monnier, 2012.
• Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, ed. by P. Cataldi and F. d’Amely, Milano, Mondadori, 2016; ID., Le occasioni, ed. by T. De Rogatis, Milano, Mondadori, 2011; ID., La bufera e altro, ed. by I. Campeggiani and N. Scaffai, Milano, Mondadori, 2019.
• Andrea Zanzotto, Le poesie e prose scelte, ed. by S. Dal Bianco and G.M. Villalta, Milano, Mondadori, 1999. ID., Erratici, ed. by F. Carbognin, Milano, Mondadori, 2021.
• Amelia Rosselli, L'opera poetica, ed. by S. Giovannuzzi, with the collaboration of F. Carbognin, C. Carpita, S. De March, G. Palli Baroni, E. Tandello, Milano, Mondadori, “I Meridiani”, 2012.
• Antonio Porta, Poesie 1956-1988, Milano, Mondadori, 1989, pp. 179-195.

 

Critical essays

The following essays are available on the Teaching resources on Virtuale platform.

About the notion of "mith"

• Roland Barthes, Il mito, oggi, in ID., Miti d’oggi, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, pp. 191-238.

About the concept of "intertextuality"

• Andrea Bernardelli, Che cos’è l’intertestualità, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (capp. I-IV).
• Michail Bachtin, La parola nel romanzo, in ID., Estetica e romanzo, Torino, Einaudi, 2001, pp. 67-230 (optional reading)
  

Poetics and ideologies

• Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (ed. by), Poeti italiani del Novecento, Milano, Oscar Grandi Classici Mondadori, 2003 (Introduzione and the short introductions to the following poets: Dino Campana, Corrado Govoni, Aldo Palazzeschi, Guido Gozzano, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Andrea Zanzotto, Amelia Rosselli).
• Guido Guglielmi, Interpretazione di Ungaretti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989 (chapter 1 only).
• Enrico Testa, Montale, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2000, pp. 1-77.
• Luigi Blasucci, Percorso di un tema montaliano: il tempo, in ID., Gli oggetti di Montale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2002, pp. 87-111.
• Andrea Zanzotto, i saggi L’inno nel fango, Testimonianza, I «Novissimi», in ID., Scritti sulla letteratura, ed. by G.M. Villalta, Milano, Mondadori, 2001, vol. I, pp. 15-20 epp. 87-98; vol. II, pp. 24-29.
• Francesco Carbognin, Linguaggio (1956 – 1969), in N. Lorenzini – S. Colangelo [a cura di], Poesia e Storia, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2013, pp. 195-239.
• Alfredo Giuliani (ed. by), I Novissimi. Poesie per gli anni ’60, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.
• Niva Lorenzini, Postfazione, in A. Porta, Poesie 1956-1988, Milano, Mondadori, 1989, pp. 179-195.
• Fernando Bandini, Zanzotto dalla “Heimat” al mondo, in A. Zanzotto, Le Poesie e Prose scelte, ed. by Stefano Dal Bianco and Gian Mario Villalta, with two essays by Stefano Agosti and Fernando Bandini, Milano, Mondadori,1999, pp. LII-XCIV.
• Francesco Carbognin, Variazioni Belliche, in A. Rosselli, L'opera poetica, ed. by S. Giovannuzzi, with the collaboration of F. Carbognin, C. Carpita, S. De March, G. Palli Baroni, E. Tandello, Milano, Mondadori, “I Meridiani”, 2012, pp. 1292-1310.

Please note

Additional resources (pages from critical essays discussed in class) will be available on the Teaching resources on Virtuale platform at the beginning of the course. These materials, whose knowledge is mandatory, even for non-attending students, are part of the exam program.

 

Not-attending students

Teaching materials and examination procedures are the same for both attending and non-attending students.

 

International students

International students will prepare a shorter program, to be agreed with the teacher during the Office hours (not by email).

Teaching methods

Classes with a strong interaction between students and teacher. Lessons will be held in in-person mode.

 

Timetable

• Wednesday, 13:00-15:00
  I period: Aula 3, via del Guasto
  II period: Aula II, via Zamboni 38

• Thursday, 13.00-15.00
  I period: Aula VI, via Zamboni 38
  II period: Aula Tibiletti, via Zamboni 38

• Friday, 13.00-15.00
  Aula Tibiletti, via Zamboni 38

 

Beginning of lectures

Wednesday, 18 september 2024

 

Assessment methods

The final oral exam is an interview aimed at verifying in each student some argumentative and technical skills related to the theoretical matters and the poetic texts analyzed throughout the class. Students will be required to read and comment some poems from the course programme, of which they are expected to recognize and to describe the main metrical and rhetorical-syntactic features.

A positive or excellent score (27 to 30/30, even with distinction) corresponds to a full mastering of technical, theoretical, historical tools for the analysis of poetic text, to a strong ability to make connections among any single part of the course contents and to correctly approach textual features with an appropriate language; an average score (23 to 26/30) goes to students who show some lacks in one or more topics or analytical exercises; a low score (18 to 22/30) to students who have severe lacks in one or more topics or exercises, that show improprieties in using notions and approaching textual examples. A negative score is assigned to students who are absolutely not able to manage the general notions and the technical language appropriate to literary analysis, and who cannot recognize the different characteristics (metrical, rhetorical, syntactic, semantic) of a poetic text.

 

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is necessary to contact the relevant University office with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

PC, video projector, overhead projector, slides and digital scans of images and excerpts from poetic and critical texts.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Carbognin