ITALIAN LITERATURE

The course is inserted between the basic disciplines common to the Program of Study and aims to provide an adequate critical knowledge of Italian literature and the fundamental tools for the textual interpretation. The teaching activity aims to start an analysis historically and philologically aware of the literary texts, founded on the mastery of the technical language.
The achievement of these instructional goals allows the student to acquire the bases for an in-depth learning of the culture and society of the triennial languages developing the skills of comparison and evaluation.

By the end of the course the student will know the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization and will know how to correctly use a specialistic lexicon of base. It is expected to be able to understand, to analyze and to interpret the literary texts object of the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and to examine themes, topics and ideas developed by the treated authors, to organize the contents in appropriate synthesis operating comparisons between texts also belonging to the European literature, to formulate a reasoned judgment of value.

To adequately follow the lessons the student must possess the essential lines of the history of Italian literature and easily move between the texts and the authors of greater importance, recognize the formal and linguistic aspects of a text, have a good knowledge of the Italian language written and oral.

India and Japan in the Italian literas of the 20th century.
The written testimonies of travellers have for centuries been the vehicle of knowledge ofthe Far East. Through the analysis of texts located throughout the 20th century (Gozzano, "Verso la cuna del mondo. Lettere dall’India"; Pasolini, "L’odore dell’India"; Buzzati, "Cronache terrestri"; Parise, "L’eleganza è frigida") the course aims to reflect on the progressive openness and integration of the writer who pushes towards India and Japan.

The texts analyzed in class will be uploaded on the University’s “Moodle” e-learning platform.
Critical Bibliography:
G. Benvenuti, "Il viaggiatore come autore. L’India nella letteratura italiana del Novecento", il Mulino, 2008;
A.M. Pellegrino, "Verso Oriente. Viaggi e letteratura degli scrittori italiani nei paesi orientali (1912-1982)", La Vita Felice, 2018;
R. Ricorda, "La letteratura di viaggio in Italia. Dal Settecento a oggi", Editrice La Scuola, 2012, author pages.

The final verification of learning consists in an oral exam of about 30 minutes on the topics discussed and in-depth on the texts. The student must show to know the historical and cultural context, object of the course, to be able to frame, analyze and comment appropriately the texts and to be able to expose correctly and clearly the contents.
The evaluation criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and the elements of historical-cultural contextualization of the literary texts at the highest level of knowledge deepened of the contents and the ability of critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.

The course will use lecture-style presentation with multimedia support (Word and Power Point with the video projector).
The didactic materials used to lesson will be available on the e-learning platform "Moodle" of University, where self-assessment tests will be inserted.

A booking system has been set up to access the LT0180 Italian Literature course (link: https://apps.unive.it/prenotazioni/p/dsaamletteratura ). Individual students can book themselves into one of the 4 classes. The deadline for booking classes is 31 October 2021. There are 270 places available per course.

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