CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I SP

The course is placed among "attività caratterizzanti" in the modern and contemporary curriculum of the Master's degree course in Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature, and among "attività affini e integrative"of the medieval and Renaissance curriculum of the same degree course and the master's degree course in History from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age.

The course aims to provide students with in-depth and extensive knowledge and advanced skills in the field of methodology in the area of Italian literature from the early twentieth century to 2000, and to foster a good awareness of the plurality of critical-methodological approaches, which enables them to read the text as an open form, in dialogue with the present, through a monographic study of an author of the twentieth century.

1. Knowledge and understanding
- to deepen the knowledge of twentieth-century Italian literature, in its relations with the contemporary cultural panorama, considered in its complexity;
- to be able to analyse and comment literary texts, with full awareness of the plurality of possible critical-methodological approaches;
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
- to apply the knowledge acquired in an autonomous and critical manner;
- to make the literary text dialogue with the present, in a multidisciplinary perspective;
3. Judging skills:
- to be able to deal with literary texts from a personal perspective, rethinking critically their interpretations and being able to discuss their validity;
4. Communication skills:
- to know how to use with awareness an adequate and appropriately updated critical vocabulary;
5. Learning skills:
- to be able to critically elaborate the bibliography relating to specific topics and discussions;

A very good knowledge of the Italian language.

Otto Weiniinger in Trieste: Saba and Svevo. The course aims to re-read the novels Ernesto by Umberto Saba and Zeno's conscience by Italo Svevo, in relation to the positions of an uncomfortable (misogynistic, anti-Semitic...) but very influential philosopher like Otto Weininger. We will also focus on some poetic texts from Umberto Saba's Canzoniere.

Criticism:

G. Debenedetti, Italo Svevo, in Saggi critici. Nuova serie II.
A. Cinquegrani, Solitudine di Umberto Saba, Marsilio 2007 (out of print, but in BAUM)

Per i testi:
U. Saba, Ernesto, Einaudi
I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno e continuazioni, a cura di M. Lavagetto, Einaudi
U. Saba, Canzoniere, selected text

The student is required to write a paper of about 20,000 characters in which he/she will discuss and comment on 4 or 5 texts of the Canzoniere of his/her choice or or one of the "Continuations" of Zeno's Conscience. Alternatively, there is the possibility to discuss this part in a seminar in the classroom.
The oral exam consists in the discussion of the thesis and of other themes dealt with in the course or present in the textbooks.

Frontal and seminar lesson

Italian

Non-attenders are required to write a paper of about 30,000 characters.

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