90244 - Forms of Poetic Text (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

Throughout this class, students are introduced the knowledge of the fundamentals of an analytical approach to the poetic text - meter, rhythm, intonation, and the history of poetic forms - in a comparative perspective, and they become able to apply them as they read authors and poems belonging to various languages and traditions.

Course contents

Main topic:

Myth, parody, ideologies

The course (30 hours) aims to: 1) examine the notion of the poetic text as a place of intersections, overlaps and collisions between different texts, codes and discourses embodying conflicting ideological orientations; 2) analyse and compare imitations, alterations, transformations of some thematic-structural elements of D’Annunzio’s Alcyone and Pascoli’s Myricae in the 20th Century, from Guido Gozzano to Dino Campana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Andrea Zanzotto, Amelia Rosselli and the Novissimi.

Readings/Bibliography

Literary texts

The (approximately 50) texts of the poems to be prepared for the exam (pdf) will be available on the platform "Insegnamenti OnLine" since the beginning of the lectures.

Below are listed only the books from which the texts will be chosen.

• Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, a cura di G. Lavezzi, Milano, BUR, 2015.
• Gabriele d’Annunzio, Alcyone, a cura di F. Roncoroni, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 1995 (or other annotated edition).
• Guido Gozzano, La signorina Felicita ovvero La Felicità, in ID., Poesie e prose, a cura di L. Lenzini, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008.
  
• Dino Campana, Canti Orfici, a cura di F. Ceragioli, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014; alternatively, Canti Orfici e altre poesie, a cura di R. Martinoni, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
• G. Ungaretti, Il Porto Sepolto, in N. Lorenzini-S. Colangelo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Le Monnier, 2012.
• Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, a cura di P. Cataldi e F. d’Amely, Milano, Mondadori, 2016; ID., Le occasioni, a cura di T. De Rogatis, Milano, Mondadori, 2011; ID., La bufera e altro, Milano, Mondadori, 2011.
  
• Andrea Zanzotto, Tutte le poesie, a cura di S. Dal Bianco, Milano, Mondadori, 2011.
• Rosselli, L'opera poetica, a cura di S. Giovannuzzi, con la collaborazione di F. Carbognin, C. Carpita, S. De March, G. Palli Baroni, E. Tandello, Milano, Mondadori, “I Meridiani”, 2012.

 

Critical essays

Some of the following essays (*) are available on the platform "Insegnamenti OnLine".

About the notion of "mith"

• Roland Barthes, Il mito, oggi, in ID., Miti d’oggi, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, pp. 191-238 (*).

About the concept of "intertextuality"

• Andrea Bernardelli, Che cos’è l’intertestualità, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (capp. I-IV).
• Michail Bachtin, La parola nel romanzo, in ID., Estetica e romanzo, Torino, Einaudi, 2001, pp. 67-230 (optional reading)
  

About imitations and transformations of rhythmic-syntactic figures belonging to the legacy of Pascoli and D’Annunzio’s poetry in the 20th Century

• Francesco Carbognin, Retorica e sintassi nella poesia italiana del Novecento. Da Pascoli e D’Annunzio agli esiti di fine secolo, nuova edizione accresciuta, Lecce, Manni, 2019.

Poetics and ideologies

• Walter Benjamin, Di alcuni motivi in Baudelaire, in ID., Angelus Novus. Saggi e Frammenti, Torino, Einaudi, 1962 (o ristampe), pp. 89-144 (*).
• Guido Guglielmi, Interpretazione di Ungaretti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989 (Chapter 1) (*).
• Luigi Blasucci, Percorso di un tema montaliano: il tempo, in ID., Gli oggetti di Montale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2002, pp. 87-111 (*).
• Francesco Carbognin, Linguaggio (1956 – 1969), in N. Lorenzini – S. Colangelo [a cura di], Poesia e Storia, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2013, pp. 195-239 (*).
• Elio Vittorini, Industria e letteratura, in «Il Menabò di letteratura», n. 4, 1961, pp. 13-20 (*).
• Italo Calvino, i saggi Il mare dell’oggettività e La sfida al labirinto, in ID., Saggi 1945-1985, a cura di M. Barenghi, Torino, Einaudi, 2001, pp. 52-60 e 105-123 (*).
• Umberto Eco, Del modo di formare come impegno sulla realtà, in ID., Opera aperta. Forma e indeterminazione nelle poetiche contemporanee, Milano, Bompiani, 2000, pp. 235-290 (*).
• Alfredo Giuliani (a cura di), introduzione a I Novissimi. Poesie per gli anni ’60, Torino, Einaudi, 2003 (*).
• Andrea Zanzotto, i saggi L’inno nel fango, Testimonianza, I «Novissimi», in ID., Scritti sulla letteratura, a cura di G.M. Villalta, Milano, Mondadori, 2001, vol. I, pp. 15-20 e pp. 87-98; vol. II, pp. 24-29 (*).

 

Additional resources will be available on on the platform "Insegnamenti OnLine".

 

Please Note:

Since the beginning of the lectures, students will be allowed to enroll in this class via the "Insegnamenti OnLine" web site.

An alternative bibliography for Overseas and Erasmus+ exchange students will be available on the platform "Insegnamenti OnLine".

A detailed description of the course contents, bibliography and assessment methods will be provided throughout the class. Further information will be provided during office hours.

Teaching methods

Classes with a strong interaction between students and teacher.

 

Timetable

Wednesday, 13:00-15:00 
Aula A, Via Zamboni 34

Thursday, 13.00-15.00
Aula A, Via Zamboni 34

Friday, 13.00-15.00
Aula A, Via Zamboni 34

Beginning of lectures

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
(II period)

Assessment methods

The final oral exam is aimed at verifying in each student some argumentative and technical skills related to the theoretical matters and the poetic texts analyzed throughout the class. Students will be required to read and comment some poems or samples, of which they are expected to recognize and to describe the main metrical and rhetorical-syntactic features.

A positive or excellent score (27 to 30/30, even with distinction) corresponds to a full mastering of technical, theoretical, historical tools for the analysis of poetic text, to a strong ability to make connections among any single part of the course contents and to correctly approach textual features with an appropriate language; an average score (23 to 26/30) goes to students who show some lacks in one or more topics or analytical exercises; a low score (18 to 22/30) to students who have severe lacks in one or more topics or exercises, that show improprieties in using notions and approaching textual examples. A negative score is assigned to students who are absolutely not able to manage the general notions and the technical language appropriate to literary analysis, and who cannot recognize the different characteristics (metrical, rhetorical, syntactic, semantic) of a poetic text.

Teaching tools

PC, video projector, overhead projector, slides and digital scans of images and excerpts from poetic and critical texts.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Carbognin