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00562 - Italian Literature

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Marco Veglia
                    
                        Credits:
                        12
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-FIL-LET/10
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0956)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The course of lessons intends to offer a critical approach to the Italian Literature, with a deep knowledge of some important works, as those that follows.

Course contents

"ATTHE BOUNDARIES OF THE MIND". Literature, Otherness and Madness in the perspective of Medical Humanities.

The course (wich consists in 60 hours of lessons) tries to present to the students the contribution offered by literature to the understanding of the dynamics of the acceptance and the exclusion of the Other. In particular, the course is focused on Lorenzo Viani, Mario Tobino, Eduardo De Filippo and Giuseppe Pontiggia.

The course consists in the explanation of the texts (considered in the cultural, anthropological, medical and literary context of their authors).

In the perspective of MH we will consider, furthermore, the contribution that even Arts and Cinema are still offering to the character -at the same time, empath and rational - of human relations.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliography of the course of lessons

A. Texts

LORENZO VIANI, Le chiavi nel pozzo; see the following link: https://www.liberliber.it/online/autori/autori-v/lorenzo-viani/le-chiavi-nel-pozzo/

MARIO TOBINO, Le libere donne di Magliano, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2016.

MARIO TOBINO, Gli ultimi giorni di Magliano, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2019.

MARIO TOBINO, Per le antiche scale, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2019.

EDUARDO DE FILIPPO, Le voci di dentro; see the following link: http://copioni.corrierespettacolo.it/de-filippo-eduardo-le-voci-di-dentro/.

GIUSEPPE PONTIGGIA, Nati due volte, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2016.

Essays

The students have to study this book (in press): Per le Medical Humanities. Sondaggi letterari, a cura di Stefano Scioli, in corso di stampa per I Libri di Emil.

In addition to this book, they have to know what follows:

On Lorenzo Viani: M. Veglia, Oltre i confini del vero. Dal "Ceccardo" alle "Chiavi nel pozzo", in "Letteratura e Arte", 2 (2004), pp. 29-53.

On Tobino, De Filippo e Pontiggia, see the mentioned Per le Medical Humanities.

LEONARDO SCIASCIA, La corda pazza, in Id., La corda pazza. Scrittori e cose della Sicilia, Milano, Adelphi, 1991, pp. 99-106.

BYRON J. GOOD, La rappresentazione narrativa della malattia, nel suo Narrare la malattia. Lo sguardo antropologico sul rapporto medico-paziente, trad. it., Torino, Einaudi, 2006, pp. 207-252.

RITA CHARON, Medicina narrativa. Onorare le storie dei pazienti, trad. it., Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 51-74.

VITTORIO GALLESE-MICHELE GUERRA, Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2015, per il capitolo Un nuovo modello di percezione: la simulazione incarnata, pp. 23-89.

During the course we will see and discuss the following films: Per le antiche scale di Mauro Bolognini (1975); Nati due volte di Pierluigi Di Lallo (2019).

Texts for the general part:

The other part of the exam includes the knowledge of 3 books (one of the ancient literature, between Dante and Tasso, and 2 of the modern and contemporary literature, between Alfieri and Calvino):

Dante, Vita nova o Commedia; Petrarca, Canzoniere; Boccaccio, Decameron; Machiavelli, Principe; Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (anche, per chi lo desideri, nella versione raccontata da Italo Calvino), Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata; Alfieri, Mirra o Vita scritta da esso; Foscolo, Ortis o Sepolcri, Manzoni, Promessi sposi; Leopardi, Canti o Operette morali; Carducci, Rime e ritmi, Pascoli, Canti di Castelvecchio; Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal; Svevo, Coscienza di Zeno; Montale, Ossi di seppia o Occasioni; Bacchelli, Il diavolo al Pontelungo; Calvino, I nostri antenati.

For any question or problem concerning the program, ask to the teacher or to his assistant, Prof. Scioli.

Teaching methods

The teaching method implies a series of lectures, but it needs a sort of "collaborative learning" from the students. With this purpose, we will use music and films as "supports" of the lessons.

Assessment methods

The assessment is determined, in part, by an oral exam, and, in other part, it consists in a paper (that must be done before the oral assessment with Prof. Veglia).

Teaching tools

Pictures, video, films, interviews etc. (on YouTube).

Office hours

See the website of Marco Veglia