ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
CULTURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2024/2025 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Simone Marsi | By appointment: contact the lecturer at email address. |
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
- Teaching
Lectures and "innovative teaching" aimed at stimulating work on the text and discussion of its multiple meanings (flipped classroom, learning by doing)
- Course books
Essay:
- Turchetta, Critica, letteratura, società, Roma, Carocci.
- Marsi, Essere umano in un mondo disumano. L'uomo e la realtà nell'opera di Carlo Emilio Gadda, Mimesis (The chapters to be read will be specified during the course. Non-attending students are required to read the entire volume)
- 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.
- Assessment
Written exam. Open-ended questions.
Assessment Criteria. The test is to be considered inadequate when the candidate demonstrates that he/she lacks the minimum knowledge of the course content, lacks the ability to rework it independently and understand literary texts. Also inadequate is the written exposition.
Sufficient evidence (18-23/30) is determined by acquisition of the minimum course content, minimal elaboration of the same and textual understanding, and uncertain command of the Italian language. Scores indicating a fair (24-25/30), good (26-27/30) and excellent (28-30/30) proof are assigned on these same parameters, while praise is awarded to proofs that achieve the highest rating in the above criteria and are distinguished by expressive, argumentative ability and linguistic sensitivity in textual analysis and reworking of content.
- 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
- Course books
Essays:
- Turchetta, Critica, letteratura, società, Roma, Carocci.
- Marsi, Essere umano in un mondo disumano. L'uomo e la realtà nell'opera di Carlo Emilio Gadda, Mimesis. Non-attending students are required to read the entire volume.
- 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.
- Assessment
Written exam. Open-ended questions.
Assessment Criteria. The test is to be considered inadequate when the candidate demonstrates that he/she lacks the minimum knowledge of the course content, lacks the ability to rework it independently and understand literary texts. Also inadequate is the written exposition.
Sufficient evidence (18-23/30) is determined by acquisition of the minimum course content, minimal elaboration of the same and textual understanding, and uncertain command of the Italian language. Scores indicating a fair (24-25/30), good (26-27/30) and excellent (28-30/30) proof are assigned on these same parameters, while praise is awarded to proofs that achieve the highest rating in the above criteria and are distinguished by expressive, argumentative ability and linguistic sensitivity in textual analysis and reworking of content.
- 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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