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Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - 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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module between the following
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2024/2025

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1 module between the following

3° Year   It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology must related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module between the following
6
A
L-FIL-LET/10
activated in the A.Y. 2024/2025
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1 module between the following
It will be activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology must related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S00741

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 25, 2023 al Dec 22, 2023.

Courses Single

Authorized

Learning objectives

The course aims to introduce to the study of Italian literature through the analysis of significant works especially considering their relationships with foreign literary traditions. At the end of the course the student will be able to - contextualize, understand and comment on a literary text; - move with competence in the framework of the Italian literary tradition and its main thematic and formal characteristics, with attention to the intersections with the European literature.

Program

The Grand Tour between educational journey and sentimental journey: "the age of experience" The course delves into the cultural experience of the Grand Tour, taking inspiration from Foscoli's work (from the translation of Laurence Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey' to the English articles on 'Classic Journeys in Italy' and on 'Italian Women') which rereads the stereotypes created by Northern European odeporic literature, focusing on the sociological, pedagogical, political aspects and on the issue of 'gender' in the wake of Madame's 'Corinne ou l'Italie' de Staël (1807). Against the historical-evolutionary background of the theme of travel (inserted in the Italian literary tradition, with textual references to Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Alfieri, Baretti), the specific meaning of the Grand Tour as a journey of knowledge and as a journey will be highlighted sentimental (based on imagination, subjectivity, sensitivity, encounter with the other) according to Yorick-Sterne's anticipatory doubling. Finally, at the crossroads between literary text and visual text, the iconographic status of the Grand Tour will be analysed, which is reflected in the 'en plein air' descriptions, in neoclassical ruinism, in eighteenth-century landscape painting, in the 'sublime' landscape that emerge between the second half of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, so as to confirm that "revolution of the gaze" at the center of the construction of national identity, which passes precisely from the experience of travellers, capable of transforming Italy from "foreign to itself" to topos rhetorical, that is, the sum of national characteristics, stabilized in recognizable and identifying images. In addition to thus marking a unique moment of mutual knowledge between Northern and Southern Europe, the Grand Tour built historical reflection on the landscape, on the paths of memory, on the relationship between writing and experience.

Bibliography

Visualizza la bibliografia con Leganto, strumento che il Sistema Bibliotecario mette a disposizione per recuperare i testi in programma d'esame in modo semplice e innovativo.

Didactic methods

- Lectures - Meetings with scholars/authors - Reading and commentary on texts - Discussions of critical hypotheses - Workshop on women travelers of the Grand Tour / the flaneuse between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The teaching materials will be uploaded to the Moodle platform, which students are invited to use to sign up. To make up for missed lessons, please contact the teacher (rossella.bonfatti@univr.it).
Non-attending students are strongly recommended to study the historical-critical monograph by M. Palumbo, Foscolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016; and the essay by P. Fasano, Literature and travel, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2006.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam
Students who intend to follow the teaching as a single course are asked to contact the teacher for agreements on how to carry out the exam.

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

1) The achievement by the student of an organic vision of the topics addressed, the knowledge of the bibliography and of the proposed texts, their critical discussion and comment, the demonstration of an expressive mastery, and of a specialized language will be evaluated with marks of excellence ( 27-30L). 2) Mostly mnemonic knowledge of the subject, capacity for synthesis and not in-depth analysis, notions that are not well connected and decontextualized, correct but not always appropriate language will lead to fair/good evaluations (22-26) 3) Approximate knowledge of the bibliography, superficial understanding of the topics, poor analytical skills, inappropriate language will be evaluated with graded judgments of sufficiency (18-21) 4) Gaps in preparation, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the bibliographic materials and texts addressed they can only be evaluated negatively with judgments of insufficiency (<18)

Exam language

Italiano

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