ITALIAN LITERATURE 1 MOD II

The course is part of the basic courses common to degree courses in Conservation and Management of Arts and Cultural Heritage. Its aim is to provide students with a basic and overall knowledge of the Italian literary framework between the 17th and mid-19th centuries. and a more precise knowledge of the authors, works and genres endowed with pre-eminence within said framework.

The teaching objectives coincide with the essential historical data concerning Italian literature between the 17th century and the mid-19th century (authors and texts); with the basic notions around the major formal and stylistic theories formulated within the period examined by the course; with the critical tools of first consultation in the independent study of Italian literature. The student who achieves these objectives can be considered equipped with the elementary knowledge and essential methodologies to orient himself independently and with the ability to critically reflect within the horizon of literary studies relating to the Italian panorama.

1. Knowledge and understanding
Acquisition of documentary data pertinent to authors and texts; understanding the meanings and textual contents; understanding of the chronological taxonomy underlying authors, texts and literary genres.
Knowing the texts in their reciprocity, not only temporally but above all in how the priors can exert influence on the subsequent ones; understand the texts despite their archaism or linguistic dissimilarity compared to the present.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Knowing how to broadly discriminate one author from another, one text from another, one formal genre from another, placing it correctly within a historical framework.
Know how to recognize the chronological progression of the main literary genres included in the period covered by the course. Knowing how to adequately paraphrase the inevitably ancient texts that are addressed in lessons and in independent study, taking advantage of the linguistic, lexicographic and critical tools proposed in lessons and acquired through personal study of the indicated manuals.

3. Judgment skills
The development of Italian literature is the result of historiographical reconstruction and, as such, perpetually susceptible to rediscussion. Faced with this axiom, the possibility of independently evaluating and verifying the critical formulations that have become final is open to the student who wishes to take advantage of the notions and tools offered during teaching.

4. Communication skills
Knowing how to discriminate between expressive registers, identifying the most appropriate for the exposition of the data acquired during the course.
Know how to clearly ask questions relating to the course, speaking publicly in the classroom.

5. Learning ability
Knowing how to take notes, putting yourself in the best collaborative conditions to integrate the missing notes and resolve any doubts about the content of the lessons.

To adequately follow the lessons the student must possess the essential lines of the history of Italian literature and 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.

This class will be devoted to the development of Italian literature, from Tasso to the end of the nineteenth century. Highlighting the connections between art, history and literary production, it will focus on the main authors of the period, analysing their poetics, works and connections with contemporary historical and cultural contexts. Meaningful literary texts, written both in prose and in verse, will be examined. A final module will be devoted to the "Promessi sposi" and the historical novel: resorting to interesting textual examples, this module will examine the main characteristics of the Italian historical novel and the role played by Alessandro Manzoni in the development of this genre.

.Per la storia della letteratura italiana da Tasso alla fine dell'Ottocento si consiglia: G. Alfano, P. Italia, E. Russo, F. Tomasi, “Profilo di letteratura italiana”, Milano, Mondadori, 2021 (dall'epoca 6 all 'epoca 10 compresa). Alla fine del corso in un progetto "Collaborative" il docente affiancato dagli studenti produrrà due ipotesi di ricerca su tematiche di attualità quali:- La sezione aurea in letteratura , arte e musica . I testi oggetti di studio sono J. da Lentini (sonetto ) Dante Alighieri ( La terzina ) nei canti XXIII- XXXIII
;-2 I linguaggi letterari verso Intelligenza artificiale da Dante e Geoffrey Chaucer I testi in analisi sono per Dante i primi canti di Inferno, Purgatorio e Paradiso; mentre per Chaucer i prologhi di tre poemi : La leggenda delle buone donne (1385 ca.), Troilo e Criseyde (1380 ca.) e The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400 ca.)
Gli studenti non frequentanti sono esenti dalla produzione di ricerca, sugli argomenti su citati, salvo loro richiesta di approfondimenti.

Oral exam, which aims at testing students’ knowledge of both the main authors and works of Italian literature, from Tasso to the end of the nineteenth century. Students who attended the lectures will be asked to demonstrate their knowledge of the themes and texts analysed in class, combining the notions that they have learned during the course with what they have learned from the assigned readings. Students who cannot attend will have to show their knowledge of the texts, the manual, and the supplementary bibliography. All students will be evaluated also according to their ability to employ a proper vocabulary and to detect connections between literature and contemporary historical and cultural contexts.


IMPORTANT! Students whose study plan includes the 12 cfu exam, will take a single oral exam that include the programme of both the first and second module (the exam can be taken starting from the 2024 summer session).

Frontal lessons during which the active participation of students will be encouraged in order to activate a critical spirit in the discussion. The lesson will be discussed in order to broaden the horizons of the contents learned and to activate research on the issues learned.
The University e-learning platform (Moodle) will be used to share texts and teaching materials, which will be examined.

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