30931 - Italian Literature 1 (GR. A)

Course contents

Course contents: I: M. Bellonci, Rinascimento privato; I. Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore; I Calvino, Lezioni americane: Leggerezza e Visibilità; II: Dante, Inferno, 10 canti, G. Boccaccio, Decameron, 19 novelle

Readings/Bibliography

I: M. Bellonci, Rinascimento privato, Oscar Mondadori 2007; L. Avellini, Gli orologi di Isabella, Bologna, I libri di Emil-Odoya, 2011; I. Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, ed. on line; I. Calvino, Lezioni americane: Leggerezza e Visibilità (ed. on line).

 

 

II: Dante's, Inferno (Commedia, edd. E. Pasquini-A. E. Quaglio, Garzanti); G. Ledda, Dante, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008; G. Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam et alii, Milano, Rizzoli; E. Curti-E. Menetti, Giovanni Boccaccio, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2013;

Teaching methods

Lessons ex cathedra and "seminari di lettura".

Assessment methods

The evaluation of the students' competencies and abilities acquired during the course consists of two phases:

 

a written test leading up to and preparatory to the specific subjects contained in the course programme, and an oral test about all the subjects covered during the course.

The written test responds to criteria relating to orthography, morphology, syntax and semantics, clarity of expression, the ability to summarize.

The oral test consists in an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the critical and methodological ability of the students. The students will be invited to discuss the tests on the course programme. The student must demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme. Access to the oral test depends on having passed the written test. The final mark is not a mathematical average of the two tests.

 

Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the lessons, are able to use these critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.

 

Those students who demonstrate a mnemonic knowledge of the subject with a more superficial analytical ability and ability to synthesize, a correct command of the language but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark.

 

A superficial knowledge and understanding of the material, a scarce analytical and expressive ability that is not always appropriate will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark.

 

Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the subject matter, inappropriate language use, lack of familiarity with the literature in the programme bibliography will not be given a pass mark.

Office hours

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