MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I SP

The course belongs to the master's degree program in Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature. Its purpose is to deepen the critical knowledge of Italian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and that of the fundamental tools for textual interpretation, so as to provide students with the necessary skills to contextualize the authors examined, to analyze the texts to rhetorical and stylistic level and achieve the capacity to interpret them in a reasonably autonomous way.

The course aims to enable the student to acquire in-depth and extensive knowledge and advanced level skills in the methodological field in the field of Italian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a developed awareness of the plurality of critical-methodological approaches to the text, with particular attention to rhetorical-stylistic processes. The student must therefore be able to understand, analyze and interpret the literary texts covered by the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and examine themes, topics and ideas developed by the authors treated, to organize the contents in appropriate syntheses, making comparisons between texts, to formulate a reasoned value judgment.

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.

Svevo’s metawritings.


Starting from the incipit of “Una vita” (the letter that Alfonso Nitti wrote to his mother), Italo Svevo's writing is configured as a writing that reflects on itself, on its objects of representation and on the (possible) relationships of this with reality. It becomes a reflection on writing, which closes the nineteenth century and which Svevo will carry forward in subsequent novels and diaries.
Through a sample reading of the three novels, of which full co-conception is assumed, the course aims to identify and reconstruct the stages of a discourse with which the Trieste writer rediscusses and breaks the link between writing and reality, and constitutes the primary foundation of his irony.

Texts:
Any integral edition of "Una vita", "Senilità", La coscienza di Zeno".

Studies:
- Claudio Gigante e Massimiliano Tortora (a cura di), "Svevo", Roma, Carocci, 2021 (excluding the chapters on Novellas and theatre);
- B. Stasi, "Svevo", Bologna, il Mulino, 2009;
- Notes from lectures.

The exam is oral and aims to ascertain mastery of the topics covered in class, the ability to frame, understand and analyze the texts that have been presented, and knowledge of the critical bibliography indicated. The evaluation criteria respond to different levels of ability: the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and elements of historical-cultural contextualization of literary texts, and of a sufficient ability to analyze them through the appropriate use of the rhetorical terminology learned in the course of lessons (18-22); the level of discrete knowledge of the contents, the ability to critically reorganize them and a good competence in the exposition and analysis of texts, (23-26); finally, an excellent level, which requires in-depth knowledge of the contents, the ability to critically reorganize them, excellent competence both in the exposition of the arguments and in the use of specific rhetorical terminology (27-30). The award of honors will correspond to excellent ability regarding the same requirements.

Lectures: discussion of historical-literary and theoretical issues and analysis of the texts to be studied.

Italian

oral

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