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Study Plan
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Laurea in Lettere - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
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Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (i) (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S01285
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/11 - CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
Period
1 A dal Sep 27, 2021 al Nov 6, 2021.
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the knowledge of modern and contemporary Italian literature; present and analyze texts by Italian authors under a historical, critical and formal point of view.
Program
The early twentieth-century novel: Tozzi, Svevo, and Gadda
The course aims to offer a historical-critical overview of contemporary Italian literature with specific focus on early twentieth-century novels.
The course will first provide an introduction both into narratology (Genette’s and Stanzel’s theory) and into the literary category of Modernism. It will then focus on the relationship(s) between novel, Italian periodicals, and such literary trends in twentieth-century italian prose as fragmentism, autobiography, and “prosa d'arte”. An in-depth examination of three of the most representative novels of the period will then follow (Federigo Tozzi’s Con gli occhi chiusi; Italo Svevo’s La coscienza di Zeno; Carlo Emilio Gadda’s La cognizione del dolore).
Particular attention will be given to the interaction between medical discourse and literary works.
Novel will be analysed both from a narratological and a historical-critical point of view.
TEACHING METHOD:
The course will be conducted in class. Lessons will be recorded and will remain available on the Moodle platform for 30 days.
COURSE TEXTS:
- F. Tozzi, Con gli occhi chiusi, a cura di G. Nicoletti, Milano, Garzanti, 2002.
- I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno, in Id., Romanzi e “Continuazioni”, a cura di N. Palmieri, F. Vittorini, Mondadori, Milano, 2004 ("Paperback").
- C.E. Gadda, La cognizione del dolore, a cura di P. Italia, G. Pinotti, C. Vela, Milano, Adelphi, 2017 (for a better comprehension of the novel students can read: C.E. Gadda, La cognizione del dolore, Edizione critica commentata con un’appendice di frammenti inediti a cura di E. Manzotti, Torino, Einaudi, 1987).
- G. Debenedetti, Il romanzo del Novecento, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2019 o Garzanti 1998 [“Quaderni del 1960-1961”; “Quaderni del 1961-1962”, (cap. V, “Tozzi dai Ricordi a Tre Croci”); “Quaderni del 1963-1964”; “Quaderni del 1964-1965”].
- R. Donnarumma, Disarticolazioni e sopravvivenze. La trama nel romanzo modernista italiano, in «Allegoria», 77, a. XXX, 2018, pp. 41-67 (also available online).
- R. Castellana, Con gli occhi chiusi e la mimesi del desiderio, in Id., Parole cose persone. Il realismo modernista di Federigo Tozzi, Pisa-Roma, Serra, 2009, pp. 25-36.
- M. Lavagetto, L’impiegato Schmitz e altri saggi su Svevo, Torino, Einaudi, 1975, pp. 39-107.
- C. Savettieri, Il racconto del tempo nella Cognizione del dolore, in «Italianistica», XXXI, 2-3, 2002, pp. 237-252 (also available online).
- Materials posted on Moodle.
Students who don't attend the course, should also read:
- F. Bertoni, Il romanzo, in M. Tortora (a cura di), Il modernismo italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 15-37.
- M. Tortora, Federigo Tozzi, in G. Alfano, F. De Cristofaro (a cura di), Il romanzo in Italia. III. Il primo Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 121-136.
- F. Vittorini, Svevo: guida alla Coscienza di Zeno, Roma, Carocci, 2003, pp. 19-31, 85-105.
- E. Manzotti, Carlo Emilio Gadda, in E. Malato (a cura di), Storia della letteratura italiana, IX, Il Novecento, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2000, pp. 615-651, 663-674.
Students who don't attend the course are kindly invited to get in touch with the teacher.
Bibliography
Examination Methods
The students’ knowledge on the course contents will be assessed through an oral examination, which will aim to ascertain:
- the students’ ability to place the literary texts that form part of the course program in the Modernism;
- their ability to explain, in appropriate language, the meaning of the novel, and the main linguistic-stylistic and narratological aspects of the texts under scrutiny;
- their ability to reflect on such texts within the frame of their literary genres.
The assessment method applies to all students, both attending and not attending classes.
