02609 - Contemporary Italian Literature (N-Z)

Learning outcomes

Course contents

Political Avant-garde / Historical Avant-garde

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The aim of the course is the analysis of some explanatory examples of the political and artistic consciousness of Italian intellectuals, writers and poets from the last decades of Nineteenth Century, during the Twentieth, to the beginning of the Twenty-first Century about the problem of the authoritarianism of the institutions of the modern society and about political and cultural changes.

Readings/Bibliography

Political Avant-garde / Historical Avant-garde

Students will read:

1st section (30 hours)

Igino Ugo Tarchetti, Una nobile follia, a c. di L. Spalanca, Allori, Ravenna, 2006.

Emilio Praga – Roberto Sacchetti, Memorie del Presbiterio, a cura di L. Flabbi, Bologna, Millennium, 2003.

Vittorio Imbriani, Dio ne scampi dagli Orsenigo, a cura di S. Sgavicchia, Allori, Ravenna, 2004.

Mario Morasso, Scritti modernisti e imperialisti, a c. di P. Pieri, (Dispensa)

Aa.Vv. Metropolis, Scritti modernisti sulla città imperialista, a c. di P. Pieri.

Aa.Vv. La guerra lirica. Il dibattito dei letterati italiani sull'impresa di Libia (1911-1912), a c. di A. Schiavulli, Allori, Ravenna, 2007

2nd section (30 hours)

Piero Pieri, Ritratto del saltimbanco da giovane, Palazzeschi 1905-1914, Bologna, Patron, 1980, pp. 9-12 / 73-205

Piero Pieri, Paradossi dell'intertestualità, Ravenna, Allori, 2004 pp. 7-108

Giovanni Pascoli, Il Fanciullino, a cura di R. Terreni, Bologna, Alice, 2006.

Scipio Slataper, Il mio Carso, a cura di B. Panieri, Ravenna, Allori, 2004.

Aa.Vv. Atlante dei movimenti culturali dell'Emilia-Romagna 1968-2007. Arti, comunicazione, controculture, vol. III, a c. di P. Pieri e C. Cretella, Bologna, Clueb, 2007

Gianluca Morozzi, Luglio, agosto, settembre nero, Ravenna, Fernandel, 2005.

Students who can not attend classes are asked to read also: Luciana Martinelli, Immagini del femminile in Pirandello, Ravenna, Allori, 2008.

  (books are available at the Nautilus bookstore, via de' Castagnoli, 12/a)

Teaching methods

Lectures held by the teacher.

Lessons will take place:

Monday, ore 11-13 Aula I via Mascarella 86 A
Thursday ore 11-13 Aula I via Mascarella 86 A
Wednesday ore 11-13 Aula I via Mascarella 86 A


Lessons start:

Monday 2nd February 2009

Assessment methods

The verification of knowledge will be achieved with a written and then an oral examination.

Foreign students are requested to compose a 8-10-pages paper in Italian, upon a subject arranged with prof. Pieri, and connected with the course readings. The subject should be chosen as early as possible, with teacher's agreement, and should be presented almost ten days before the oral examination session.

Enrolment (at least seven days before the written examination) on the following web site:

https://uniwex.unibo.it.

Enrolments will be stopped instead the day before the oral examination.

Teaching tools

Office hours

See the website of Piero Pieri