00562 - Italian Literature

Course contents

 

General Part

1. Students should read and demonstrate the knowledge of:

a. Dante, Inferno. Suggested commentaries: Sapegno (ed.), La Nuova Italia; Bosco-Reggio (eds.), Le Monnier; Pasquini-Quaglio (eds.), Garzanti.

b. Four works, belonging to three different centuries, to be chosen from the following: Petrarca, Canzoniere (30 poems); Boccaccio, Decameron (2 days); Machiavelli, Il principe; Ariosto, Orlando furioso (5 cantos); Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata (5 cantos); Goldoni, La locandiera, Una delle ultime sere di carnovale, I Rusteghi; Alfieri, Vita or Saul and Mirra; Foscolo, Ortis and Sepolcri; Leopardi, Canti (10 poems) and 10 Operette morali; Manzoni, I promessi sposi; Verga, I Malavoglia or Mastro-don Gesualdo; d'Annunzio, Il Piacere; Pascoli, Canti di Castelvecchio; Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal; Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno; Ungaretti, L'allegria; Montale, Ossi di seppia; Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana or La cognizione del dolore; Calvino, I nostri antenati.

c. Manuale di Italianistica, ed. by Vittorio Roda, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2005.

2. Before the final oral exam the students must sit a written test, in one of the yearly sessions (the result will be included in the overall final mark). Suggested textbook for the preparation of the written test: P. Vecchi Galli, Sussidiario di letteratura italiana, Bologna, Gedit, 2007.

Monographic Part

Doubles in modern Italian literature.

First module: 16th-19th century

Second module: 19th-20th century.

Students should read at least FOUR secondary texts from the following list:

S. Freud, Il perturbante, in Opere 1917-1923, Torino, Boringhieri, 1977; O. Rank, Il doppio, Milano, SugarCo, 1979; G. Debenedetti, Il romanzo del Novecento, Milano, Garzanti, 1976; U. Eco, Il superuomo di massa, Milano, Bompiani, 1978; V. Roda, Homo duplex, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991; R. Ceserani, Il fantastico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1996; G. Rosa, La narrativa degli Scapigliati, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997; Identità alterità doppio nella letteratura moderna, a cura di A. Dolfi, Roma, Bulzoni, 2001; V. Roda, Letteratura fra due secoli, Bologna, CLUEB, 2007; A.R. Pupino, Pirandello o l'arte della dissonanza, Roma, Editrice Salerno, 2008; Il tema del doppio nella letteratura moderna, a cura di V. Roda, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2008.

Students taking a 10-credits module are supposed to read TWO (instead of four) secondary readings.

 

 

The whole course is worth 12 ECTS credits; each of the two modules is worth 6 ECTS credits. The second module can be repalced by another 6-credits specialist option within the Department of Italian (to be agreed with the relevant lecturers).

The course can be taken a second time as an advanced option (worth 6 ECTS credits) with the following reading list: Dante, Purgatorio or Paradiso: 17 cantos; two works, belonging to the same century, chosen from those that the student didn't read the first time; literary history of the relevant century; either the first or the second module of the Monographic part; one of the secondary readings from the Mongraphic part's reading list.

The 5-credits advanced option (old curriculum) has the following reading list: Dante, Purgatorio or Paradiso: 17 cantos; two works, belonging to the same century, chosen from those that the student didn't read the first time; literary history of the relevant century; either the first or the second module of the Monographic part.

The students who will not be able to attend the lectures are invited to contact the course convenor in order to agree a specific reading list.

Two series of support tutorials will be organized:

1. Reading Dante

2. Preparing for the written test

Readings/Bibliography

 

The reading list is included in the syllabus above.

Assessment methods

Modes of assessment:

The final oral exam will test the students' knowledge of both the General and the Monographic part. The two parts can be examined, if the student prefers, in two different sessions. The General part must always be examined before the monographic section.

Office hours

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