Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

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
2 course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
Certificate of the CLA at level B2 in Italian for students of the University of Augsburg and in German for students of the University of Verona
A stage in a company with an agreement is warmly recommended
3
F
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
2 course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
Certificate of the CLA at level B2 in Italian for students of the University of Augsburg and in German for students of the University of Verona
A stage in a company with an agreement is warmly recommended
3
F
-

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.




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Teaching code

4S02260

Credits

12

Coordinator

Giuseppe Chiecchi

Language

Italian

Also offered in courses:

The teaching is organized as follows:

I MODULO PARTE (I)

Credits

6

Period

Semestrino IIA

Academic staff

Giuseppe Chiecchi

II MODULO PARTE (P)

Credits

6

Period

Semestrino IIB

Academic staff

Fabio Danelon

Learning outcomes

Module: I MODULO PARTE (I)
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Textuality as a place of knowledge and verification of literary specificity, in its formal, historical, symbolic and thematical connections, in the background of the Italian and Western civilization.


Module: II MODULO PARTE (P)
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Textuality as a place of knowledge and verification of literary specificity, in its formal, thematical, historical, symbolic connections, in the background of the Italian and Western civilization.

Program

Module: I MODULO PARTE (I)
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Prerequisites: Knowledge of literary tradition; ability in orientation and historical contextualization.

Course content: The Dolce Stil Novo: poetics and poetry.

Textbooks:
-Poesie dello Stilnovo, a cura di Marco Berisso, Milano, BUR, 2006 (during the course will be given an anthology of poems ).
-DONATO PIROVANO, The Dolce Stil Novo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2014.
-Notes from the lessons (with bibliographic and critical supplementary indications).

Teaching methods: lectures. Oral exercises in reading and interpretation of texts.


Module: II MODULO PARTE (P)
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Prerequisites: knowledge of literary tradition; ability to orientation and historical contextualization.

Course contents: 2. Part 2 (prof. Fabio Danelon, 36 hours)
The modern novel in Italy Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo of Vittorio Imbriani and Mastro-don Gesualdo of Giovanni Verga. Stylistic paths and thematic itineraries.

Textbooks: part two:

- Vittorio Imbriani, Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo (ed. of Romanzi di Imbriani a cura di Fabio Pusterla, Milano, Garzanti is advised; or Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo, a cura di Sandra Carapezza, Napoli, D’Auria, 2011; or Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo, a cura di Siriana Sgavicchia, Ravenna, Allori, 2004); Giovanni Verga, Mastro-don Gesualdo ( l’ed. a cura di Giulio Carnazzi, Milano, Rizzoli-BUR is advised; or a cura di Giancarlo Mazzacurati, Torino, Einaudi; or a cura di Carla Riccardi, Milano, Mondadori; or a cura di Nicola Merola, Milano, Garzanti). N.B. For both novels, any other edition, provided unabridged and commented on.

-Notes of the lessons.

- For an orientation on the 19th century novel, students are required to study at least one of the following volumes:
Renato Bertacchini, Il romanzo italiano dell’Ottocento: dagli scottiani a Verga, Roma, Studium, 1996; Matteo Palumbo, Il romanzo italiano da Foscolo a Svevo, Roma, Carocci, 2007; Michele Colombo, Il romanzo dell’Ottocento, il Mulino, 2011 (the last for the implications of language history).

In addition to the above mentioned introductions of novels: Sandra Carapezza, «Mai, inteso nominare». La citazione in «Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo» (pp. 123-144) and Gian Paolo Marchi, Citazioni e autocitazioni nel «Mastro-don Gesualdo» (pp. 145-166), in: Tessere di trame. La citazione nel romanzo italiano dell’Ottocento, a cura di Fabio Danelon, «Parole rubate», 11, giugno 2015 (freely downloadable file from: http://www.parolerubate.unipr.it/); and at least one of the following essays and/or volumes (one for Imbriani, one for Verga): Francesco Spera, Il principio dell’antiletteratura: Dossi, Faldella, Imbriani, Napoli, Liguori, 1976; Gabriella Alfieri, La lingua “sconciata”. Espressionismo ed espressivismo in Vittorio Imbriani, Napoli, Liguori, 1990; Studi su Vittorio Imbriani, a cura di Rosa Franzese ed Emma Giammattei, Napoli, Guida, 1990; Antonio Palermo, Ottocento italiano, L’idea civile della letteratura. Cattaneo, Tenca, De Sanctis, Carducci, Imbriani, Capuana, Napoli, Liguori, 2000; Fabio Danelon, «Le pesche non s’innestano sull’olivo». Sulla rappresentazione del matrimonio nel “Mastro-don Gesualdo”, con qualche riflessione preliminare, in: Id., Né domani, né mai. Rappresentazioni del matrimonio nella letteratura italiana, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, pp. 251-325; Guido Baldi, L’artificio della regressione. Tecnica narrativa e ideologia nel Verga verista, Napoli, Liguori, 2006; Il punto su Verga, a cura di Romano Luperini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004; Romano Luperini, Verga moderno, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005 Pierluigi Pellini, Verga, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012

Other bibliographic indications will be provided during lectures.

Teaching Methods: lectures. Exercises in reading and interpretation of texts.

Examination Methods

Module: I MODULO PARTE (I)
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oral ascertainment of acquired knowledge with regard to every single point of the syllabus.

N.B.IMPORTANT: You need to have successfully passed the examination on point 1 (prof. Giuseppe Chiecchi), before taking the examination on point 2 with prof. Fabio Danelon. The final vote will be unique for the entire syllabus of the course.


Module: II MODULO PARTE (P)
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Oral ascertainment of acquired knowledge with regard to every single point of the syllabus.

N.B.IMPORTANT: You need to have successfully passed the examination on point 1 (prof. Giuseppe Chiecchi), before taking the examination on point 2 with prof. Fabio Danelon. The final vote will be unique for the entire syllabus of the course.

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