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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Editoria e giornalismo - 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.
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Textual analysis, contemporary literature and newspaper writing (m) - LETTERATURA, EDITORIA E GIORNALISMO (M) (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S000880
Teacher
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/11 - CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
Period
Sem 2A, Sem 2B
To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link: Course organization
Learning outcomes
The course aims to introduce the student to the study of modern and contemporary Italian literature, with particular attention to the experience of writers who, during the twentieth century, have engaged in the journalistic or editorial field. Through the study of an exemplary case, the student, at the end of the course, will have to demonstrate to know the relationships between literature, publishing and journalism, as well as being able to read and analyze texts and situate them in the history of Italian literature.
Program
The course aims to investigate the relationship between crime news and journalism, taking inspiration from some criminal 'cases' that shook Italian readers from the Thirties to the Nineties: from the first hard-boiled stories about gangsters in the Milan's suburbs of Scerbanenco to the mysterious lake's crimes of Saviane, from the 'monsters' of Buzzati and Consolo, to the unsolved mysteries of the wealthy North-East, to the drama of the mafia victims in Sicily.
Testing with readers' expectations, editorial life and street life, descriptive mechanisms and different linguistic registers, these writers-journalists set up an original narrative approach able to summarize entertainment, humor, psychological dimension, reflection on the power of information.
The crime-stories (whether private or public) light up the social malaise, the urban transformations, the common sense of anxiety and justice, but also the complex relationship between reportage and narrative fiction, between judicial truth, subjective truth and real facts, between crime, history and politics, between denunciation, militan autorship and entertainment, between science, investigative intuition and literary imagination.
Because the crime is a finest world without lights and without consolation that the writers-witnesses-reporters-detectives as real "typewriters", revive in the newspapers, creating hybrid imaginary, curiosity, censorship, imitation.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Vincenzo Consolo | Cosa loro. Mafie tra cronaca e riflessione | Bompiani | 2017 | ||
| Vincenzo Consolo | Esercizi di cronaca | Sellerio | 2013 | 88-389-2907-6 | |
| Sergio Saviane | I misteri di Alleghe | Mondadori | 1964 | ||
| Dino Buzzati | La "nera" di Buzzati (Crimini e misteri / Incubi) | Mondadori | 2002 | 978-88-04-51019-2 |
Examination Methods
Oral test so organized: three open questions on the aspects discussed during the course.
At least one of the questions includes analysis and commentary on texts.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, during the 2020 summer session the assessment modality will be modified as follows: online oral exam with paper.
