MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE - SECOND PART - LABORATORY

Falling within the educational activities of the Master's Degree in Italian Philology and Literature, the lab is aimed at students wishing to write their thesis in the field of Italian literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century or in relation to certain theoretical aspects or methodological issues.
The teaching objectives are to encourage the learning of theoretical and methodological tools to be used for literary research and the development of autonomous analysis and evaluation skills of specific texts, aspects and genres of the modern and contemporary period.

The student will be able to provide a cultural-historical contextualization and a theoretical analysis of some representative texts of Italian literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
(S)he will have the necessary mastery of terminology and concepts.
(S)he will be able to recognize the peculiarities of a literary text using the knowledge acquired through the prior discussion and application of selected theories.
(S)he will be able to formulate and argue what (s)he has consistently learnt, also demonstrating that (s)he has developed autonomous evaluation skills with respect to the content transmitted, also in relation to work already in progress.

No prerequisites are required apart from a general interest in texts of modern and contemporary literature.

A number of representative texts from modern and contemporary literature will be analyzed, taking into account the historical-cultural frame of reference (including comparative perspective), the genre to which they belong, suggestions from geocriticism and space theory along with the analysis of forms of representation of the human and posthuman.

Ingo Berensmeye, “Literary Theory: An Introduction to Approaches, Methods and Terms“, Stuttgart, Klett, 2014.
Emilio Russo (a cura di), “Il testo letterario. Generi, forme, questioni”, Roma, Carocci, 2020.
Westphal, Bertrand. Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces, trans. Robert T. Tally Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Some chapters (indicated during the lesson) of each of the three reference books will be analysed.
Attending students will receive additional materials in class or on the moodle platform.
Non-attendants will be given some additional readings in English or Italian.

Additional Readings:
Additional bibliography will be provided during the lessons.

Verification of learning takes place 50 percent through an oral exposition in which the student demonstrates the ability to analyze and present the chosen text in light of specific theoretical suggestions and 50 percent from the oral on the theoretical texts.

Teaching is divided into the two parts of the first semester, the first of which involves lectures along with analysis, discussion and comparison, while the second consists of meetings and dialogues, with expositions by the students. There will be in-depth analysis of concepts presented by the teacher during the lesson or requested by those attending, who will be encouraged to intervene orally on the topics addressed.

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Students are allowed to attend this module even if they have not completed the “Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature I SP” (Master´s level) module.
Please note: out of the 12 CFU credits provided for the "Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature-Contemporary Italian Literature" area, only 6 CFUs can be obtained through laboratory practice.

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