CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
A.Y. | Credits |
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2024/2025 | 6 |
Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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Salvatore Ritrovato | on appointment |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
By contemporary Italian literature we mean the literary production of the twentieth century up to the present day. It must be placed within a framework of international relations and its critical methodology, firmly focused on the historical-philological study of the works and authors taken into consideration, is also made up of a comparative opening that allows us to reach a broader and deeper conception of the culture of the twentieth century, in which the various issues of Western civilization come to the fore (between scientific-technological progress and colonialist exploitation, awareness of the crisis and political utopia/dystopia). In this way the student, accustomed to placing the texts in a European horizon and questioning them on the basis of a conscious reflection on the methods used for their interpretation, will be able to integrate and rearticulate, in the name of complexity, their knowledge on the subject to contemporary literature and to manage them with rigor and passion, as befits a subject that does not ask to be neutral, inert, opaque, but presents itself, thanks to the cultural depth of the issues and topics covered, as an uninterrupted dialogue between memory and myth, tradition and imagination.
Program
“How many ways to dream of the Middle Ages?”. Modernity in the mirror of the past (II)
- Introduction: before and after The Name of the Rose, between the end of the traditional historical novel and the beginning of the postmodern one
1) A Tragedy called Middle Ages: Torquato Tasso, Il re Torrismondo (1587) – Vittorio Alfieri, Rosmunda (1779) – Alessandro Manzoni, Il conte di Carmagnola (1816-1819), Adelchi (1822) – D’Annunzio, Francesca da Rimini (1901) – Luigi Pirandello, Enrico IV (1921) – Ronconi-Sanguineti, L’Orlando Furioso (1969)
2) The irreverent time of play, fairy tales and mystery: Giulio Cesare Croce, saga di Bertoldo – Carlo Gozzi, Le tre melarance – Italo Calvino, Fiabe italiane (1956) e Il cavaliere inesistente (1959) – Dario Fo, Mistero buffo (1969) – Tonino Guerra e Luigi Malerba, Storie dell’anno mille (1977) – Mario Monicelli, L’armata Brancaleone (1966), Brancaleone alla crociate (1970), Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984) – Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Trilogia della vita” (Decameron, I racconti di Canterbury, Il fiore delle mille e una notte, 1971-1974)
3) Historical perspectives: Manzoni, Discorso sopra alcuni punti della storia longobardica (1822) – Massimo D’Azeglio, La disfida di Barletta (1833) – Manzoni, Del discorso storico (1845) – Carducci, Poesie scelte – Pasolini, Bestemmia (1966) – Ignazio Silone, Avventura di un povero cristiano (1968) – Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa (1980), – Fulvio Tomizza, Fughe incrociate (1990) - Luigi Malerba, Fuoco greco (1990) - Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera (1990) – Luther Blisset, Q (1999) – Umberto Eco, Baudolino (2000)
4) In the infinite Present: Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili (1972) – Giovanni Giudici, Salutz (1986) – Mario Luzi, Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone Martini (1994)
Bridging Courses
Nothing.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The aim of the course is to allow the student (a) an ability to integrate knowledge and manage the complexity of the issues addressed in the context of a European historical-cultural and critical-literary horizon, as well as to formulate judgments on the basis of learning and reflection on the critical methodologies developed during the twentieth century (from historicism to gender and intercultural studies), including reflection on the social and ethical responsibilities of the literary text linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments; therefore (b) the possibility of communicating in a clear and unambiguous manner the arguments and possibly the conclusions (assuming it is possible to conclude), including the underlying rationale, to both specialist and non-specialist interlocutors; finally, (c) the ability to develop those critical and didactic skills that allow you to continue studying independently, in view of the possible continuation of studies or any professional application.
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
Supporting Activities
Meetings are planned both in person and online with critics and scholars of the authors covered.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons; analysis of films and audiovisual materials; class discussions of the texts used; in-depth seminars on the topics of the course; laboratory
- Attendance
A good starting point is required for Italian literature, its periodization, major issues, and literary forms and genres, as prescribed in the modern and contemporary Italian literature course of the triennial.
In order to be able to take the exam as attending students, students must attend at least 80% of the lessons and all seminar activities included in the sum of the hours of the course. Alternatively, contact the teacher.
- Course books
U. Eco, Dieci modi di sognare il Medioevo (in Sugli specchi e altri saggi, Bompiani, 1985)
Medievalismi italiani (sec. XIX-XXI), a cura di T. di Carpegna Falconieri e R. Facchini (Gangemi, 2019)
T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Nel labirinto del passato. Dieci modi per riscrivere la storia (Laterza, 2020)
S. Ritrovato, Antieroi e uomini in fuga. Quattro passi fra medioevo e letteratura (Quodlibet, 2021)
- Assessment
Examination interview on the authors and the issues, both critical-methodological and historical-literary, touched upon during the lessons and on the partial and complete texts selected by the student.
The students' tests will be evaluated, from excellent to good to fair to sufficient to insufficient, taking into account the following criteria: (1) knowledge of the subject, up to the possession of valuable critical and in-depth skills. – (2) ability to reason appropriately on the topic of the question, with a mastery of the language specifically required for critical analysis. – (3) ability to explain the subject with clarity and ownership of language and to connect issues and argue in an original way
We therefore recommend a knowledge of the subject that is not mnemonic but reasoned, a vocabulary that is not uncertain and approximate, and a clear exposition, to obtain a grade that is as satisfactory as possible.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Contact the teacher
- Attendance
A good starting point of Italian literature, its periodization, the major issues, and the literary forms and genres is required, as prescribed in the three-year course on modern and contemporary Italian literature.
- Course books
Contact the teacher
- Assessment
Examination interview on the authors and the issues, both critical-methodological and historical-literary, touched upon during the lessons and on the partial and complete texts selected by the student.
The students' tests will be evaluated, from excellent to good to fair to sufficient to insufficient, taking into account the following criteria: (1) knowledge of the subject, up to the possession of valuable critical and in-depth skills. – (2) ability to reason appropriately on the topic of the question, with a mastery of the language specifically required for critical analysis. – (3) ability to explain the subject with clarity and ownership of language and to connect issues and argue in an original way.
We therefore recommend a knowledge of the subject that is not mnemonic but reasoned, a vocabulary that is not uncertain and approximate, and a clear exposition, to obtain a grade that is as satisfactory as possible.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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