28991 - Contemporary Italian Literature (LM)

Academic Year 2020/2021

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know the main historical and critical questions posed by authors and texts of the contemporary italian literature. He/She also will know the lines of the critic debate and use the main methods to analise literary texts.

Course contents

Italian literature and world literature

During the course we will increase the knowledge of individual authors developing a comparative reading of the texts in the programme. The course will focus on the techniques that imaginative writers use to articulate local and global dimensions and on the relationships between novel and new media.


 




Readings/Bibliography

Students will study the following texts:

Roberto Saviano, Gomorra. Viaggio nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della camorra, Mondadori, 2014

Gomorra, regia di Matteo Garrone, 2008

Gomorra - La serie, stagione 1, 2014

Andrea Camilleri, L'altro capo del filo, Sellerio, 2016

L'altro capo del filo, regia di Alberto Sironi, 2019

Melania Mazzucco, Io sono con te. Storia di Brigitte, Einaudi, 2016

Stefano Calabrese (a cura di), Narrare al tempo della globalizzazione, Carocci, 2016 (introduzione e capitoli 4 e 5)

Giuliana Benvenuti, Il brand Gomorra. Dal romanzo alla serie TV, Il Mulino, 2017

Teaching methods

The lessons are, most of all, lectures held by the teacher. During the lessons, students will be encouraged to participate. We will use also some tools to support teaching, especially power-point. Movies and documentaries will be shown for the contextualization of readings scheduled. Finally, scholars will be invited for some specific issues and for the presentation of some texts and authors.

Assessment methods

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.

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

In addition to lectures, held by the teacher, audiovisual tools will bthe coursee used to support the teaching. Scholars will also be invited to bring a significant contribution to increase the issues upon which focuses .

Office hours

See the website of Giuliana Benvenuti

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality Reduced inequalities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.