ITALIAN LITERATURE - FORMS, METRICS AND STYLE

This class, among the modules in the bachelor’s degree in Humanities, curriculum in Science of the Literary Text and Communication, is meant to furnish students with the primary methodological tools in the field of metrics, rhetoric, and stylistics.
The class thus aims to offer basic knowledge that is indispensable in the analysis of poetic and prose texts of the Italian literary tradition, and to render students capable of thoughtful and autonomous reflection on the specifics of a literary text. Particular attention is devoted to the technical aspects of metrical and rhetorical analysis, and to the tools that are available (including on the computer) to scholars of this discipline.
The accomplishment of these aims equips the student for future advancement in the philologico-literary study of the Italian tradition.

Knowledge and comprehension: Students should be able to trace the history of Italian metrical forms (especially the most-used forms); to know in theory and recognize in practice the principal rhetorical devices; to recognize and comprehend the metrical, rhetorical, stylistic forms of literary texts.
Ability to use said knowledge: Students should be able to employ their technical and critical knowledge in the metrical, rhetorical, and stylistic analysis of literary texts; to use correctly the specific terminology of the discipline, especially with respect to meter and rhetoric; to analyse a literary text in its various aspects; to employ the acquired theoretico-methodological tools in concrete, specific cases.
Communication skills: Students should be able to express the specifics of their thoughts on a text, with adequate terminology.
Learning skills: Students should be able to critically consult the assigned texts as well as the bibliography therein.

A good knowledge of the Italian Language.

Elements of metrics, rhetoric, and stylistics.

P. G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012.
G. Lavezzi, Breve dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Rome, Carocci, 2004 (or later reprints).
P. Landi, Le strategie della narrazione. Voci, tempo, modi, personaggi, Bologna, Archetipo Libri, 2013, cap. II, pp. 51-107.
Non-attending students must add the following essay:
P. V. Mengaldo, Prima lezione di stilistica, Bari, Editori Laterza, 2001 (or reprints).

The examination consists of an oral test, based on some textual examples of italian writers to be analized from the point of view of metrics, rhetoric and narratology.

Lessons combine lectures with active student participation. On the e-learning platform, the teacher will upload the literary texts to be studied.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development