MODERN HISTORY 3

ART AND LITERATURE: BETWEEN NATION AND SOCIETY
The invention of national identities in long nineteenth-century Europe.

The course is structured on the learning needs of students of the "political-international" curriculum, but deals with topics and arguments that could be of particular interest and usefulness for students in French languages of the "literary-cultural" curriculum; the course can therefore be attended as a free choice exam by all students enrolled in the CdS LCSL

Knowledge and understanding:
• knowledge of the methods of analysis of the specific areas of historiographical research in the languages of study in relation to the different types of sources (of political-institutional history, religious, social and culture, historical mentality, cultural systems, literary history, artistic and performative);
• long-term knowledge and framing of origins and dynamics of the development of the European social imaginary, from the ancien régime and the Age of Revolutions (cultures, religious, political, economic institutions) up to modern parliamentary democracies;
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• ability to articulate a coherent historical framework of the events that are at the origin of the processes of secularization of thought and of today's arrival in the modernity of the individual and of rights;
• ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, with the conscious use of the historiographical categories;
• ability to autonomously initiate investigations on specific cases related to the thesis topic.

The course is structured around the learning needs of third-year students of the "political-international" curriculum of the Triennale, but deals with themes and topics accessible to students of all degree programs with a purely historical and historical-cultural methodological slant and which they could be of particular interest and usefulness for students of French in the "literary-cultural" curriculum; the course can therefore be attended as a free choice exam by all students enrolled in the CdS LCSL.

Art and literature between nation and society. The invention of national identities in long nineteenth-century Europe.

In nineteenth-century Europe the idea of Nation, "imaginary community", took root in the consciences of vast masses essentially through literature, visual arts, melodrama, theater. The great forms of social communication helped to forge a certain idea of Patria, a model of belonging and participation, through the invention of a collective heritage (of heroes and founding fathers, a common language and history, monuments, traditions) ; the re-enactment in a patriotic key of myths and exemplary figures of a remote past.
It is, in truth, the most classical of the existing models of "political" use of history.
The course aims to analyze the ways and forms through which, in the long European nineteenth century and beyond, literatures, theater, music and visual arts contributed to shaping national identities, thus retracing the origins of modern political cultures of mass.

a) the lecture notes and b) some readings which will be indicated at the beginning of the course.

Students who for various reasons intend to agree on an alternative exam program to the (compulsory) attendance of the course, must contact the teacher during office hours.

The oral test, with an average duration of about 20 minutes, will focus on at least two topics covered during the lessons and aims at a transversal verification of the student's preparation and his ability to explain and coordinate the topics covered by the course, his ability to connect between different topics.

During the oral exam, the student will have to demonstrate:
a) to be able to articulate a coherent historical picture of the events and debates that are at the origin of the birth of modern politicals and mass cultures in the 'long' Nineteenth Century.
b) ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the different historical and literary sources examined, therefore
c) to be able to adequately comment on the complex of historical sources (visual and written) analyzed in class,
d) to show a conscious use of the historiographical categories used during the lessons;
e) the ability to autonomously initiate insights and reflections on specific cases related to the topic of the course.

15 frontal academic lessons, with the aid of iconography; source commentary

Italian

NB: Attending students will be required to print and bring to class a paper version of the texts that will be read during the lessons, which can be downloaded in pdf from the Moodle section on this page.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development