STYLISTICS AND PROSODY

Academic year

2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years

Official course title

STILISTICA E METRICA SP.

Course code

FM0163 (AF:308413 AR:170293)

Modality

On campus classes

ECTS credits

6

Degree level

Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

Educational sector code

L-FIL-LET/12

Period

2nd Term

Where

VENEZIA

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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals

The course takes part of the core educational activities of the Master's Degree programme in Italian Philology and Literature, as a 6 ECTS course.

Expected learning outcomes

This course offers a solid specialised training in the study of Italian poetry, by an approach to some important texts, that will be studied by many points of view, such as exegetical, stylistical, prosodical, rhetorical, critical methods. At the end of the course, students will know the chief tools for a metrical and stylistical lecture of poetical texts, that they could apply to any other Italian poetical text.

Pre-requirements

To be admitted to this course students must possess a good knowledge of Italian Language and of the chief notions of Prosody, Rhetorics and Stylistics.

Contents

Analysis of exemplar texts of Italian poetry, from the Origin to the XXth century. Second part: from Metastasio to Zanzotto.

Referral texts

Referral text:
Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, "Attraverso la poesia italiana. Analisi di testi esemplari", Rome, Carocci, 2008 (or reprints): texts from p. 113 (n. 16) to p. 207 (n. 34).
Critical essays:
P. G. Beltrami, "La metrica italiana", Bologna, il Mulino, 1994 (or reprints).
Lorenzo Renzi, "Come leggere la poesia", Bologna, il Mulino, 1991, pp. 13-39.
Non-attending students must add the complete volume of Mengaldo quoted above.

Assessment methods

The examination will start by a lecture of one of the texts presented during the course; students must explicate it literaly and give a commentary on it. Other questions will concern texts quoted on the Bibliography.
Students must demonstrate to have well understood the contents of the course and to have joint a personal critical ability.

Teaching methods

Teacher will do lectures.

Teaching language

Italian

Type of exam

oral

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Definitive programme.

Last update of the programme: 03/11/2019