10516 - Italian Literature Philology

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know the general outline of the main issues about critical editions in the Italian literary tradition and the principles of textual criticism. The student is able to use the knowledge acquired on specific textual questions.

Course contents

The other Literature: Consumer / entertanment / pop. The Italian pre- SF in the XIX Century: from Ippolito Nievo, Storia filosofica dei secoli futuri (1860), to Ulisse Grifoni, Dalla Terra alle Stelle. Viaggio meraviglioso di due italiani ed un francese (1887) to Paolo Mantegazza, L’Anno 3000. Sogno (1897)

Readings/Bibliography

ppolito Nievo, Storia filosofica dei secoli futuri, Roma, Aracne, 2012
Ulisse Grifoni, Dalla Terra alle Stelle. Viaggio meraviglioso di due italiani ed un francese, Roma, 1887

Paolo Mantegazza, L’Anno 3000. Sogno, Roma, Lupetti, 2007

Tommaso Pincio, Un marziano in cattedra, nel vol. Atlante della letteratura italiana, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà, III. Dal Romanticismo a oggi, a cura di Domenico Scarpa, Torino, Einaudi, 2012

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and seminars

Assessment methods

Oral test. During the test the student must demonstrate knowledge of concepts related to the studied philological problems and must know how to apply the philological and methodological knowledge in the field of analysis of texts.

The evaluation of the students' competencies and abilities acquired during the course consists of an oral test, i.e. 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 texts 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

Power Point, Didactic materials available on IOL.

Office hours

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