- Docente: Lara Michelacci
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is expected to have a deep knowledge on diachronical aspects of the Italian literary tradition, knows the critical discussion on the keys issues about texts and authors and is able to use the main tools of the methodological analysis of texts and contexts. Students must demonstrate competence in written form.
Course contents
Borders of Reality: Spirits, Ghosts, Hallucinations (and few tricks) in Italian Literature
Recommended Readings: G. Verga, La lupa, Torino, Einaudi, 1982; A. Fogazzaro, Malombra, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011; A. Boito, L’Alfiere nero; Il Trapezio; Iberia, presentazione di A. Seppilli, Bologna, Cappelli, 1979; L. Capuana, Profili di donne, in Racconti, a cura di E. Ghidetti, Roma, Salerno, I, 1973-1974, pp. 1-74; L. Capuana, Profumo, Milano, Mondadori, 1996; L. Capuana, Novelle dal mondo occulto, ed. by A. Cedola, Bologna, Pendragon; L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal, Torino, Einaudi, 1975; G. Boccaccio, Decameron, ed. by V. Branca, Milano Mondadori, 1985 (Giornata settima); Dante, Inferno (canti V, X, XIII, XV, XIX, XXVI, XXVII).
Readings/Bibliography
Readings:
G. Verga, La lupa, Torino, Einaudi, 1982; A. Fogazzaro, Malombra, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011; A. Boito, L’Alfiere nero; Il Trapezio; Iberia, ed. by A. Seppilli, Bologna, Cappelli, 1979; L. Capuana, Profili di donne, in Racconti, ed. by E. Ghidetti, Roma, Salerno, I, 1973-1974, pp. 1-74; L. Capuana, Profumo, Milano, Mondadori, 1996; L. Capuana, Novelle del mondo occulto, ed. by A. Cedola, Bologna, Pendragon, 2007; L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal, Torino, Einaudi, 1975; G. Boccaccio, Decameron, ed. by V. Branca, Milano Mondadori, 1985 (Seventh Days); Dante, Inferno (cantos V, X, XIII, XV, XIX, XXVI, XXVII)..
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Critical bibliography:
S. Lazzarin, L’altro, l’esotico e il perturbante nell’ “Alfier nero” (1867) di Arrigo Boito, «Italianistica», XXXVI, 1 2, 2007, pp. 83-96.
L. Michelacci, Il microscopio e l’allucinazione. Luigi Capuana fra letteratura, scienza e anomalia, Bologna, Pendragon, 2015.
V. Giannetti, Capuana e lo spiritismo: l’anticamera della scrittura, «Lettere Italiane», XLVIII, 2, 1996, pp. 268-285.
E. Landoni, Il doppio fondo delle parole Il doppio fondo delle parole. Dall’occultismo al mistero in “Malombra” di Fogazzaro, «Rivista di letteratura italiana», XXII, 2, 2004, pp. 1-17.
E. Gioanola, Pirandello, Mattia Pascal e la filosofia del lanternino in Magia di un romanzo: Il fu Mattia Pascal prima e dopo, atti del convegno internazionale, ed. by Pietro Frassica (Princeton, 5-6 novembre 2004), Novara, Interlinea, 2005, pp. 189-202.
A. Cedola, Capuana e l’Altro in Il visionario, il fantastico, il meraviglioso tra Otto e Novecento, ed. by L. Weber e A.M. Mangini, Allori, Ravenna, 2006, pp. 135-161.
E. Comoy Fusaro, Forme e figure dell’alterità. Studi su De Amicis, Capuana e Camillo Boito, Ravenna, Giorgio Pozzi Editore, 2009, pp. 79-160.
L. Benedetti, Pure battono alla porta: spiriti e personaggi nel Fu Mattia Pascal e oltre in Magia di un romanzo: Il fu Mattia Pascal prima e dopo, atti del convegno internazionale, ed. by Pietro Frassica, (Princeton, 5-6 novembre 2004), Novara, Interlinea, 2005, pp. 203-214.
E. Filosa, “Decameron” 7: Under the Sign of Venus, «Annali d’Italianistica», 31, pp. 315-353.
R. Bonavita, Storia della letteratura italiana. Vol. 5: L’Ottocento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
Teaching methods
The course will be divided in frontal lessons and laboratories on the texts.
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 aimed
at ascertaining a general knowledge of 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.
Teaching tools
Audio and video aids may be used in support of lectures.
Office hours
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