81792 - Didactics of Italian Literature (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to know and propose the didactic and academic resources of the Italian Literature, whose disciplinary contents will be valued for text analysis as well as for the literary history and the relationship between literature and society.

Course contents

Teaching Italian literature is not based only on a perfect knowledge of its classical works but relies first and foremost on the relationship we have with them. A lesson cannot do without elements of the correct and persuasive communication but is not limited to it. The added value is called the pleasure of teaching the Italian literature. The course aims to develop each topic in the program as if it were a school lesson, so that the subjects treated in this course can serve for a future teaching activity. The course also intends to give voice and space to the literary genres that usually receive less attention in the educational practice, such as theatre, autobiography and correspondence.

 

The course consists of two modules of 30 hours each.

I Module – Text analysis

We learned the text analysis in the high school, and then forgot about it later, and then studied it again in the university. Now we have to teach it in order to show our students what they do not see at first sight. If it true that the pleasure of a text can be conveyed without knowing a lot of techniques, it is however also true that to exercise oneself in an analysis of poetic o prose texts makes us recognize and perceive a dimension of words and the relationship between them that we did not experience before.

II Module, 30 hours - The prose of the self

Correspondence, autobiography, and novel.

This module will explore some prominent examples of the genre of the letter, from the sixteenth- and the eighteenth-centuries correspondence and autobiography to the twentieth-century novel. Particular attention will be paid to such authors as De Roberto, Bacchelli, Bellonci, Bassani and Patti.

Readings/Bibliography

L. Chines C. Varotti, Che cosa è un testo letterario, Roma, Carocci, 2015

B. Capaci, Non sia retorico, Bologna, Pardes, 2014.

A. Battistini, Lo specchio di Dedalo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001

G.Ferroni, Prima lezione di letteratura italiana, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2019.

C Ruozzi, Raccontare la scuola, Testi autori e forme del secondo Novecento, Torino, Loescher, 2014.

M. Recalcati, L'ora di lezione, Torino, Einaudi, 2014

G.M. Anselmi, L'approdo della letteratura. Percorsi della narrazione da Dante a Game of Thrones , Roma, Carocci, 2018

T. Korneeva (a cura di ), Le voci arcane. Il potere nel teatro e nell'opera, Roma, Carocci, 2018

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson with the help of multimedia, mainly in the first section of the second module

Assessment methods

EARNING TESTS MODALITY

The test will be carried out by oral exam and conversation and will be eventually integrated by a multimedia didactic presentation. The content of the course and the didactic finalities make the exam the occasion to highlight, through the obtained competences, the predisposition to the specific didactic of the Italian literature.

Example of the evaluation range:

30 with honor:

Thorough knowledge of the contents of the bibliography and of the lessons, a precise and appropriate critical language, already inclined to the best didactic efficacy.

28-30:

Thorough knowledge of the bibliography and of the content of the lessons expressed by a precise and appropriate critical language with significant didactic clarity.

24-27:

Thorough knowledge of the bibliography and of the content of the lessons. Critical language with some inaccuracy and sometimes incongruous to the subject, presence of excessive simplifications during the exposition.

18-23:

Knowledge sometimes uncertain of the contents of the bibliography and of the lessons. Critical language presenting generalizations and incongruities. Presence of simplifications partially inadequate to the content of the exposition.

INVITE TO REPEAT THE TEST:

Serious failings in texts of the bibliography and in the subject of the lessons.

Office hours

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Course Unit Page

• TeacherBruno Capaci [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/bruno.capaci2/en]

• Credits12

• SSDL-FIL-LET/10

• Teaching ModeTraditional lectures

• LanguageItalian

• Course Timetable [http://www.artshumanitiesculturalheritage.unibo.it/en/programmes/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2016/412284/orariolezioni] from Jan 30, 2017 to May 05, 2017

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