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Study Plan
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Master’s degree in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts - 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.
1° Year
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1 module to be chosen among the following2 modules among the following1 module between the following2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
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1 module to be chosen among the following2 modules among the following
1 module to be chosen among the following
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1 module to be chosen among the following2 modules among the following1 module between the following| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1 module to be chosen among the following2 modules among the following
1 module to be chosen among the following
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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.
History of Italian literary language (m) (2025/2026)
Teaching code
4S007403
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS
Period
CuCi 2 A, CuCi 2 B
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
Aim of the course is offering a knowledge of the history of literary Italian language, with specific attention to the language of prose, and improving the ability to independently analyze the texts of Italian tradition. Through the analysis of a literary genre, an author or a group of works relevant to the tradition of Italian literary prose, the course aims to highlight the implications of the language present in the texts with the other elements of the stylistic system (narrative structures, argumentative processes, discursive approach). At the end of the course students are expected to be able to operatively apply the acquired knowledge and, therefore, to independently proceed to the linguistic analysis of a text in Italian literary prose, as preliminary element for its overall interpretation.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Knowledge, at least in essential terms, the history of the Italian language and the history of Italian literature.
Program
The course proposes the linguistic and stylistic analysis of some works by Italo Calvino: "Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno", "Il barone rampante", "Marcovaldo", a selection from "Cosmicomiche", "Le città invisibili", "Collezioni di sabbia".
The reading of the individual volumes and the relative textual analysis will allow us to go through the entire work of Calvino and to verify its role and position in the canon of the second half of the twentieth century and to verify the stylistic and formal solutions subsequently adopted by the author (from the neorealist novel to the fantastic and science fiction story to the combinatorial narrative).
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Frontal lesson in presence. Students will be asked to read some abstracts of the novels during the course.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam is oral and is intended to ascertain the knowledge of the topics covered during the course and the ability to analyze and interpret the texts.
Evaluation criteria
The evaluation criteria will take into account the direct knowledge of Italo Calvino's texts, the ability to identify its stylistic and linguistic lines, the ability to establish links with other works by the author or authors of Italian literature.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Not relevant
Exam language
Italiano
