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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The 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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2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

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Teaching code

4S002898

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 26, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.

Learning objectives

To acquire knowledge about: - authors, works, texts and cultural or literary contexts; some texts among the most important for the national literary identity; - resources needed to comprehend and interpretate texts; - the theme of the relationship between writing and landscape. To acquire competences in: - reading poetry, also in an intertextual view. At the end of the course students will be able to put the texts known in the adequate cultural context, and to analyze them focusing on the main formal aspects, main themes and the dynamic relationship that connects these two levels.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge of the Italian language

Program

"Paths of prose between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: memorials, autobiography, travel writings"

The first part of the course will be devoted to provide the theoretical and historical-critical elements for defining the genres of autobiography, memorials of travel literature (diaries, reports, letters); the second part will involve reading and discussing extracts from a corpus of exemplary texts, with particular attention to the chronological period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, the writings of Italian authors most open to European solicitations, interests and perspectives will be taken into consideration (Francesco Algarotti, Giuseppe Baretti, Giacomo Casanova, Vittorio Alfieri, Carlo Goldoni, Lorenzo Da Ponte)

The slides projected in class and critical readings will be made available to students on the e-learning platform. In addition to the texts indicated in the bibliography, other indications will be provided during the lessons

Erasmus students are required to contact the teacher to agree on a program

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

Lectures (36 hours)
Exercises in reading and interpreting literary texts

Learning assessment procedures

The proof will be a oral test
The lecture notes and slides (available on the e-learning platform) are integral part of the exam material
The detailed exam program will be published on the platform at the end of the course
Erasmus students must contact the teacher about the evaluation methods

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Evaluation criteria

The proof will check the possess of knowledges and competences acquired during the course (contents: texts read and analyzed during the course; cultural and biographical contexts involved in texts' genesis; theme aspects concerning the development of the autobiography and the travel literature)

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The mark will be expressed out of 30 (thirties)

Exam language

italiano