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 26, 2022 al Nov 5, 2022.

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Program

Course contents: Part 1 (prof. Fabio Danelon, 30 hours+ 12 Laboratory)

A "transgressive" novel after the unification of Italy. Vittorio Imbriani, Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo.

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

Textbooks::

It requires the reading and in-depth study of "Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo" in an integral and commented edition. We suggest: Vittorio Imbriani, Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo (in ed. of Romanzi di Imbriani, ed. Fabio Pusterla, Milano, Garzanti); o Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo, ed. Sandra Carapezza, Napoli, D’Auria, 2011; o Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo, ed. Siriana Sgavicchia, Ravenna, Allori, 2004
-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 Imbriani novelist students are required to study at least two of the following volumes (three for not attending students):

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 Sancits, Carducci, Imbriani, Capuana, Napoli, Liguori, 2000;
Fabio Danelon, Il nodo, il nido. Il romanzo matrimoniale dopo l'Unità d'Italia, Venezia, Marsilio, 2022, pp. 59-138.

Other bibliographic indications will be provided during lectures.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

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

Learning assessment procedures

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.
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.

Evaluation criteria

In particular for the first part: 1) Verification of historical-literary knowledge and relative capacity for contextualization; 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 exemplary. In particular for the second part: 1) Verification of the ability to contextualise and critically analyze the texts also with reference to the main methods of investigation; 2) Verification of knowledge of the reference critical bibliography and of the ability to use it in reference to the texts analyzed.

Exam language

Italiano