UNITED ITALY LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- VALENTINA GRITTI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- LETTERATURA, LINGUA, STORIA E SPETTACOLO
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/12
Training objectives
- During the course students will acquire a competence of the history of Italian language and literature, poetry in particular, from the unification of Italy until the post-II World War period.
Prerequisites
- Italian Literature I and History of Italian language
Course programme
- The course is devoted to the knowledge of the evolution of Italian language and literature after the unification of Italy by the analysis of the literary works of different Italian poets (for example Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Gozzano, Saba, Rebora, Ungaretti, Montale, Luzi, Pasolini, Penna, Sereni, ecc.). In particular Montale's La bufera e altro will be analyzed and commented.
Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons. Analysis and reading of texts from 1860 until the post-II World War period.
Lessons recording for all students, also for those not attending the course (FAD) Learning assessment procedures
- Oral questions on the topics and authors examinated, as many as necessary to verify the level of student learning (from simple memorization of data to more valuable use of concepts learned).
Reference texts
- Vittorio Coletti, Storia dell’italiano letterario. Dalle Origini al XXI secolo, Torino, Einaudi, 2022, Parte terza: capitoli 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38.
Andrea Afribo e Arnaldo Soldani, La poesia moderna. Dal secondo Ottocento a oggi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012.
Eugenio Montale, La bufera e altro, edizione commentata a cura di Ida Campeggiani e Niccolò Scaffai, con scritti di Guido Mazzoni, Gianfranco Contini e Franco Fortini, Milano, Mondadori (Lo Specchio), 2019.
Costanzo Di Girolamo, Manualetto di metrica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
Course material in digital format.
