87699 - Literature and Philology of modern and contemporary (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, successful students know Literature and Philology of modern and contemporary Italian texts, through the reading and analysis of exemplary case studies.

Course contents

The course aims to introduce to the history of modern and contemporary Italian literature through the textual problems and editorial events of the texts of the twentieth century and presents some case studies of editing or authorship: Gadda, Montale, Bassani, Pasolini. Students will choose an author and a text on which to deepen a specific editing study, in a written paper, which will be the subject of the discussion during the oral exam.

Contents: 1. Introduction to the study of twentieth century Italian LIterature Phlology; 2-6 Editing Novecento: the author, the editor, the publisher; The texts: structures and forms; 7-9 Case studies: Gadda; 10-11 Montale; 12 Bassani; 13 Pasolini; 14 Keynotes of the Papers; 15 Conclusions.

Readings/Bibliography

COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Successful students are required to read

Paola Italia, Editing Novecento, Roma, Salerno, 2013.

Alberto Cadioli, Le diverse pagine. Il testo letterario tra scrittore, editore, lettore, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2012.

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CASE STUDIES (one at the choice of the student)

Gadda: Note al testo di Paola Italia, Giorgio Pinotti, Claudio Vela, in C.E. Gadda, Accoppiamenti (2011), Adalgisa (2012), Eros e Priapo (2016), Cognizione del dolore (2017), Pasticciaccio (2018), edizioni Adelphi.

P. Italia, Come lavorava Gadda, Roma, Carocci, 2017.

Montale: Montale e pseudo Montale. Autopsia del “Diario Postumo”, a cura di Federico Condello, Valentina Garulli, Francesca Tomasi, Bologna, BUP, 2016.

Niccolò Scaffai, Come lavorava Montale, in L’autore e il suo archivio, a cura di Simone Albonico e Niccolò Scaffai, Milano, Officina Libraria, 2015, pp. 21-36.

Bassani: Giancarlo Ferretti. Stefano Guerrieri, Giorgio Bassani. Editore letterato, Manni, 2011.

Alberto Sebastiani, Il Fabbricone 1959-1961: una “bassanizzazione”?, “Ecdotica”, 4 (2007) pp. 66-100.

Pasolini: Silvia De Laude, I due Pasolini, Roma, Carocci, 2018.

 

Suggested Bibliography

Giuliano Bernardi, Cronache dell’editoria italiana del dopoguerra, Milano, Unicopli, 2018.

Alberto Cadioli, Letterati editori. Attività editoriale e modelli letterari nel Novecento, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2017.

Giancarlo Ferretti-Giulia Iannuzzi, Storie di uomini e libri. L’editoria italiana attraverso le sue collane, Roma, Minimum Fax, 2014.

Gabriele Sabatini, Visto si stampi, nove vicende editoriali, Roma, Italo Svevo, 2018.

Domenico Scarpa, Storie avventurose di libri necessari, Roma, Gaffi, 2009.

 

Suggested Reviews

Prassi Ecdotiche https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/PEML/index

Ecdotica www.ecdotica.org

 To improve one’s academic writing ability this handbook may be helpful: P. Italia, Scrivere all’università, Le Monnier, Firenze, 2014².

The recommended readings are the same for students who attend the lectures and studentes who do not, because all lessons are recorded.

Teaching methods

Face-to-face classes lessons, php, materials in AMS campus.

Assessment methods

The exam is made up of a paper (maximum 25.000 bytes Bibliography included), sent by e-mail at least 15 days before the exam, in which students will deal with a topic of the course; and an oral discussion about the paper.

Reaching a clear view of all the course topics as well as using a correct language terminology will be valued with maximum rankings. Mnemonic knowledge of the course topics or not completely appropriate terminology will be valued with intermediate rankings. Unknown topics or inappropriate terminology use will be valued, depending on the seriousness of the omissions, with minimal or insufficient rankings.

Teaching tools

PhP projection; AMS digital platform, lesson recording.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia