ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
CULTURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2023/2024 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Simone Marsi |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course will provide the students with the understanding of theoretical and methodological tools to analyze 20th century Italian novels and understand the complex culture of Italian nation. Students will be able to investigate literary texts by sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives, considering Italian social and historical peculiarities such as Fascism, works, urbanization, popular folklore, sexuality, politics, and power.
The student should be able to use his interpretive abilities to reflect about current debates in Italian society.
Program
- How to read a text: In this first part, the course will focus on authors who have provided sociological perspectives to the study of the literature (Gramsci, Benjamin, Bourdieu…)
- To read a text: In this second part, the course will focus on novels, focusing on the themes which are fundamental in Italian culture and society.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Course books
Essay:
- Turchetta, Critica, letteratura, società, Roma, Carocci.
- Other books and materials will be added during the course.
Novels:
- Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, Milano, Adephi.
- Satta, Il giorno del giudizio, Milano, Adelphi.
- Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo, Milano, Adelphi.
- Dino Buzzati, Poema a fumetti, Milano, Mondadori
- Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare, Torino, Einaudi.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
Essays:
- Turchetta, Critica, letteratura, società, Roma, Carocci.
- Other books and materials will be added during the course.
Novels:- Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, Milano, Adephi.
- Salvarore Satta, Il giorno del giudizio, Milano, Adelphi.
- Leonardo Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo, Milano, Adelphi.
- Dino Buzzati, Poema a fumetti, Milano, Mondadori
- Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare, Torino, Einaudi.
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