ITALIAN LITERATURE 1 MOD II

The teaching form part of the basic subjects in the Bachelor's degree. Its principal aim
is to provide the student with the indispensable rudiments of the topic, and to start him
to a critical interpretation of the development of Italian literature from Baroque to Romanticism,
by means of a detailed historical picture and a set of selected illustrations.

Knowledge of the main lines of modern Italian literature and of the most important
and typical discussions and controversies about the matter.
Knowledge of the major authors and of their works. -----
The student will be able to use such improvements to a better
and deeper interpretation of the literary texts of modern age.

A good knowledge of Italian language.

1. Mannerism and Baroque. 2. The age of Enlightenment. 3. The literature of Neoclassicism.
4. The Romanticism in Europe and Italy.

S. GUGLIELMINO - H. GROSSER, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato, 2000; C. SEGRE - C. MARTIGNONI, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2000; G. BALDI - S. GIUSSO - M. RAZETTI - G. ZACCARIA, Dal testo alla storia dalla storia al testo,
Torino, Paravia, 2003; R. LUPERINI - P. CATALDI - L. MARCHIANI - F. MARCHESE, Perché la letteratura, Palermo, Palumbo, 2015; G. ALFANO - P. ITALIA - E. RUSSO - F. TOMASI, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari. 2. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento, Milano, Mondadori, 2018. ---- The students that will regularly attend the lessons can prepare the examination by means of their notes (and, if that is the case,
by help of a good handbook of Italian literature, such as the above-mentioned ones). The students that cannot attend the lessons will prepare the examination by means of the same handbooks. It's also demanded the reading of a classic of the Italian literature
in full version, and for this end a list of the major texts will be distributed during the course (or sent by request).

Oral examination based on questions about all the subjects of the syllabus.
Comment on the texts discussed during the course.

The course is founded on the traditional form of the so called frontal lessons.

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