Teaching code

4S02260

Teacher

Fabio Danelon

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Italian Literature II of the course Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity)
• Italian Literature II - LM [Sede VR] of the course Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE

Period

1 A dal Sep 27, 2021 al Nov 6, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Learning outcomes

The teaching of Italian literature (m) aims at:
• perfect the linguistic, historical-literary and formal structures of Italian literature;
• analyze and comment on literary texts from a philological-critical point of view and through the tools of literary hermeneutics (stylistic and metric philology, textual philology, narratological aspects, ancient and modern interpretations of the texts in question).
The course aims to provide students with the ability to read and interpret critical-philological and historical-literary texts of Italian literature. At the end of the course the student must be able to
• understand, analyze and translate the text / texts taken into consideration;
• place the examined works within history and literary genres;
• knowing how to apply the acquired knowledge to other texts of the Italian literary tradition of different ages and gender;
• be able to communicate the acquired knowledge with an appropriate vocabulary.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of Italian literary tradition; capacity for orientation and historical contextualization.

Program

Prerequisites: knowledge of literary tradition; ability to orientation and historical contextualization.

Course contents: Part 1 (prof. Fabio Danelon, 36 hours)

The objects in the Promessi sposi. Ways of use of the material and of the concrete in the Alessandro Manzoni novel.

The aim of the course is to study fully a fundamental text in the history of italian novel.

Textbooks: part first:

It requires the reading and in-depth study of the "Promessi sposi" in an integral and commented edition. We suggest: Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, ed. Francesco de Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli-BUR, 2014

-Notes of the lessons.

- For an orientation on the modern italian novel, students are required to study at least one of the following volumes (two for not attending students):
Gino Tellini, Storia del romanzo italiano, Firenze, Le Monnier (Capp. I-X, pp. 1-265)
Il romanzo in Italia, vol. II, L'Ottocento, a cura di Giancarlo Alfano e Francesco de Cristofaro, Roma, Carocci
Matteo Palumbo, Il romanzo italiano da Foscolo a Svevo, Roma, Carocci

For a follow-up on Manzoni novelist students are required to study at least two of the following volumes (three for not attending students):
Pierantonio Frare, Leggere “I promessi sposi”, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016;
Alessandro Bosco, Il romanzo indiscreto. Epistemologia del privato nei “Promessi sposi”, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2013;
Salvatore S. Nigro, La tabacchiera di don Lisander. Saggio sui “Promessi sposi”, Torino, Einaudi 2012;
Vittorio Spinazzola, Il libro per tutti. Saggio su “I promessi sposi”, Milano, CUEM, 2008;
Guido Baldi, L'Eden e la storia. Lettura dei “Promessi sposi”, Milano, Mursia, 2004;
Ezio Raimondi, Il romanzo senza idillio. Saggio sui “Promessi sposi”, Torino, Einaudi, 2000

They are also recommended, for further information:

Oggetti della letteratura italiana, a cura di Gian Mario Anselmi e Gino Ruozzi, Bologna, Carocci, 2008;
Francesco Orlando Gli oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura. Rovine, reliquie, rarità, robaccia, luoghi inabitati e tesori nascosti, Torino, Einaudi, 1993;
Epifanio Ajello, Figure e cose immagini e manufatti nella letteratura italiana, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019.

Other bibliographic indications will be provided during lectures.

Teaching Methods: lectures. Exercises in reading and interpretation of texts. The teaching materials proposed are consistent with the exam program.

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Oral assessment of the acquired knowledge, in relation to each of the two parts in which the program is distinct, both for attending students and non-attending students. In particular for the first part: 1) Verification of historical-literary knowledge and relative ability to contextualise; 2) Verification of the ability to understand and analyze the different types of literary texts through the detailed examination of texts in verse and prose. In particular for the second part: 1) Verification of the ability to contextualise and critical analysis of texts, also with reference to the main methods of investigation; 2) Verification of the knowledge of the reference critical bibliography and of the ability to use it in reference to the texts analyzed.
N.B. important!!
You will need to have successfully passed the exam on point 1 (Prof. Fabio Danelon), before you can take the exam on point 2 with prof. Fabio Forner. The final grade will be unique for the whole program of the course.