30635 - Italian Literature (LM)

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.

Course contents

Invisible women. A story to tell

The course addresses, from a conceptual and thematic point of view, the topic of the nvisibility of the feminine in literature. The first part is dedicated to: M. Mazzucco; L. Wadia, G. Sapienza, Igiaba Scego. The second part focuses on Boito, Un corpo; Basile, La vecchia scorticata (fiaba, 1, 10); Ariosto, Orlando furioso (Canto I)

Readings/Bibliography

Readings: G. Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti, edited by M. Rak, Milan, Garzanti, 1998 ( I, 10); C. Boito, Un corpo, in Narratori settentrionali dell'Ottocento, edit by F. Portinari, Turin, Utet, 1970, pp. 662-696; Ariosto, Orlando furioso (canto I), introd. by L, Caretti, Turin, Einaudi, 2015; M. Mazzucco, Io sono con te. Storia di Brigitte, Turin, Einaudi, 2016; L. Wadia, Amiche per la pelle, Rome, E/O, 2007; G. Sapienza, Università di Rebibbia, Milan, Rizzoli, 1983; I. Scego, Rhoda, Sinnos, 2004.

Students of the Master's Degree in Gemma and in Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali will read only the essays regarding M. Mazzucco; L. Wadia; G. Sapienza; I. Scego.

Bibliography:

Giovanbattista Basile e l'invenzione della fiaba, edited by M. Picone and A. Messerli, Ravenna, Longo, 2004 (essay by M. Rak); A. Carli, Letteratura, arte e scienze anatomiche: su Un corpo di Camillo Boito, in Otto/Novecento: rivista quadrimestrale di critica e storia letteraria, XXIV, 2, 2000, pp. 27-80 (available online). S. Zatti, L’Angelica ariostesca o gli inganni della letteratura, in T. Crivelli (edited by), Selvagge e Angeliche. Personaggi femminili nella tradizione letteraria, Leonforte, Insula, 2007, pp. 95-107. A. Bazzoni, Scrivere la libertà. Corpo, identità e potere in Goliarda Sapienza, Pisa Edizioni ETS, 2021, chapter 4: pp. 219-268. M. G. Catalano, Goliarda Sapienza e le libere donne di Rebibbia, in Carceri vere e d’invenzione dal tardo Cinquecento al Novecento, edited by G. Traina e N. Zago, Acireale-Rome, Bonanno editore, 2009, pp. 609-620; C. Barbarulli, Essere o avere il corpo. «L’università di Rebibbia», in Appassionata Sapienza, edited by M. Farnetti, Milano, La Tartaruga, 2011, pp. 132-147; M. Rizzarelli, «Un presentimento di “quasi libertà”». Rebibbia According to Goliarda Sapienza. Between, 11(22),2021, pp. 171-190. U. Fracassa, Nuove frontiere della letteratura italiana della migrazione, in Scritture Migranti, 11, 2017, pp. 231-265.L. Michelacci, Spazi di conflittualità. Amiche per la pelle di Laila Wadia in Migration und Herabsetzung. Invektive Dynamiken in italienischen Migrationserzählungen, hgs G. Deinzer, F. Teckentrup, E. Tiller, Berlin, Script, 2023, pp. 183-203.

 

Students of the Master's Degree in Gemma and in Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali will read only the essays regarding Mazzucco, Sapienza, Wadia, Scego.

Teaching methods

The course will be divided in frontal lessons and laboratories on the texts.

The course is part of the project of innovative didactics of the University of Bologna and will be combine place-based formal classes with online educational materials and opportunities for interaction. Furthuer information will be given at the beginning of the course. Teaching innovation activities are an integral part of the course for students attending for 9 cfu.

Assessment methods

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.

Non attending students are required to do the same readings and to study the same bibliography of attending students.

Teaching tools

Audio and video aids may be used in support of lectures.

Office hours

See the website of Lara Michelacci