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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)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (p) (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S01315
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/11 - CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
Period
1 B dal Nov 15, 2021 al Jan 12, 2022.
Learning outcomes
This course aims to: • deepen the knowledge of modern and contemporary Italian literature • analyze Italian literary texts from a historical, critical, formal and symbolic point of view.
Program
Carlo Emilio Gadda’s "Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana": pastiche, novel and “non-finito"
The course will focus on the main novel by one of the most important Italian writer of the twentieth century: Carlo Emilio Gadda’s "Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana”.
The course will first provide an introduction into Gadda's narrative and poetics: classes will focus on Gadda’s first narrative attempts, on his literary models, and on the problematic placement of his literary work in the twentieth century.
An in-depth examination of "Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana” will then follow. Particular attention will be given to:
1. the structure of “Pasticciaccio"
2. relations of “Pasticciaccio”’ with previous literary models and with the conventions of crime novel;
3. the 'pastiche';
4. the role of psychoanalysis;
5. representation of Fascism inside the novel.
TEACHING METHOD:
The course will be conducted in class. Lessons will be recorded and will remain available on the Moodle platform for 30 days.
N.B. Studens should attend the course Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea (i) before attending Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea (p).
COURSE TEXT:
- C.E. Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, a cura di G. Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2018.
(For a better comprehension of the novel students can read M.A. Terzoli, Commento a Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana di Carlo Emilio Gadda, con la collaborazione di V. Vitale, Roma, Carocci, 2015.)
- C. Benedetti, Carlo Emilio Gadda e la gioia del narrare, in P. Amalfitano (a cura di), Le emozioni nel romanzo. Dal comico al patetico, Roma, Bulzoni, 2004, pp. 191-207 (also available online).
- F. Bertoni, La verità sospetta. Gadda e l’invenzione della realtà, Torino, Einaudi, 2001, Parte prima cap. I; Parte seconda capp. I, II.4, III.1-2-4.
- E. Manzotti, Carlo Emilio Gadda, in E. Malato (a cura di), Storia della letteratura italiana, IX, Il Novecento, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2000, pp. 615-674 (also available online).
- C. Savettieri, La trama continua. Storia e forme del romanzo di Gadda, Pisa, ETS 2008, cap. I “Le vie al romanzo”, pp. 11-48.
- C. Savettieri, Il Pasticciaccio e la logica simmetrica, in «Allegoria», 81, a. XXXII, 2020, pp. 28-60 (also available online, cf. Leganto).
- Materials posted on Moodle.
Students who don’t attend the course, should also read:
- S. Agosti, Una lettura del Pasticciaccio, in Id., Gadda ossia quando il linguaggio non va in vacanza, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2016, pp. 11-34.
- F. Amigoni, La più semplice macchina. Lettura freudiana del “Pasticciaccio”, Bologna, il Mulino, 1995, cap. I, pp. 25-65.
- C.E. Roggia, Il diavolo, la campagna: alcune osservazioni sul male nel «Pasticciaccio», in «Strumenti critici», XXXI, 1, 2016, pp. 25-50 (also available online).
- C. Savettieri, Il ventennio di Gadda, in R. Luperini, P. Cataldi (a cura di), Scrittori italiani tra fascismo e antifascismo, Pisa, Pacini, 2010, pp. 1-33 (also available online).
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 Gadda’s work in the twentieth century;
- 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.
