Teaching code

4S008059

Teacher

Anna Maria Salvade'

Coordinatore

Anna Maria Salvade'

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE

Period

CuCi 1 A, CuCi 1 B

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning objectives

The main objective of the course is to introduce students to the study of Italian literature through the direct analysis of a corpus of texts representative of a theme of particular importance. Specific attention will be paid to the relationships between literature, publishing and journalism. At the end of the course the student will be able to - contextualize, understand and comment autonomously a literary text; - look at the literary text as a complex organism, in constant dialogue with other areas of Western culture and in particular in close relationship with the publishing and communication world that allow its diffusion and success; - to move with competence within the framework of the Italian literary tradition and its main thematic and formal characteristics, with particular attention to the intersections with the history of journalism and communication, especially publishing.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge of the Italian language

Program

LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM: THE ORIGINS
The course aims to reconstruct the history of journalism in Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular regard to European models, social, political and cultural aspects, as well as the communicative, formal and stylistic ones that characterize it . Among the salient facts of the history of eighteenth-century publishing, we will take into consideration the evolution of periodicals from the "gazette" form to the "newspaper" form, at the origin of modern journalism; the main Italian newspapers will then be analyzed from the 1760s to the second half of the 19th century (among others, "La Frusta letteraria"; "Il Caffè"; the "Biblioteca Italiana"; "Il Conciliatore"; the "Anthology" ). The last part of the course, shorter, of a seminar nature, will be dedicated to the contaminations between journalism and writing in twentieth-century authors such as Dino Buzzati and Giovanni Comisso: the students will present relationships with the analysis of some articles assigned. The slides projected in class, the handouts and useful critical readings will be made available to students on the e-learning platform. In addition to the texts mentioned in the bibliography, other indications will be provided during the lessons. Erasmus students are required to contact the teacher to agree on any personalized programme.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures
Seminar meetings
Reading and interpretation exercises of literary texts
Teaching materials and support resources (such as the slides projected during the course) will be uploaded to the teaching Moodle platform, with the indication of the date of the lesson to which they refer.

Learning assessment procedures

Attending students will have an ongoing test which will focus on the knowledge of the main lines of journalistic communication and Italian literary journalism in the 18th-19th centuries. The essay/report they will present on the arguments of the last part of the course will also be evaluated.
For non-attending students and for those attending who have not taken the test in itinere nor subjected the report on the seminar part to evaluation, an oral test with the complete program is foreseen.
The oral test consists of an interview aimed at ascertaining the knowledge acquired, the argumentative and expressive skills, the ability to grasp the links between the history of journalism and that of the context in which it unfolds, in addition to the communicative, formal and stylistic aspects that characterize this type of writing.
Lecture notes, handouts and slides (the latter available from time to time on the e-learning platform) are an integral part of the exam material; the detailed exam program will be published on the platform at the end of the course.
Those who intend to take the exam as non-attending students are invited to contact the teacher to arrange an interview, online or face-to-face (annamaria.salvade@univr.it), and will follow the PROGRAM for NON-ATTENDANTS uploaded on the platform Moodle of teaching.
Erasmus students are kindly requested to contact the teacher about the program and assessment methods.

Evaluation criteria

The proof will check the possess of knowledges and competences acquired during the course; to evaluate linguistic skills, the ability to critically discuss and textual analysis.
Contents: texts read and analyzed during the course; cultural and biographical contexts involved in texts' genesis; theme aspects concerning the relationships and connections between journalism and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The mark will be expressed out of 30 (thirties)

Exam language

Italiano