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00562 - Italian Literature (A-L)

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Claudia Sebastiana Nobili
                    
                        Credits:
                        12
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Ravenna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Cultural Heritage (cod. 9076)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students should know italian literature from XIVth to XXth century. They will be able to discuss the most important texts and authors, to put them in historical perspective, and to improve their linguistic proficiency.

Course contents

Part 1. History of the italian literature: an introduction. From XIVth to XXth century.

Part 2. A literature's theme: an itinerary across the most important texts of the italian tradition.

Readings/Bibliography

A. Part 1

Dante, Inferno, commento a cura di Emilio Pasquini e Antonio Enzo Quaglio, Milano, Garzanti, «I Grandi libri», 1982 (2004).

La letteratura nei secoli della tradizione. Dalla «Chanson de Roland» a Foscolo, a cura di Marco Santagata, Bari, Laterza, 2007.

La letteratura nel secolo delle innovazioni. Da Monti a d'Annunzio, a cura di Marco Santagata, Bari, Laterza, 2009.

N.B. Students that don't attend the lectures must also read Italo Calvino, Lezioni americane, Milano, Garzanti, 1988.

B. Part 2

For the students that attend the lectures, slides and notes from the lessons will be procured online, at the end of the course, on the website www.unibo.it (IOL).

Students that don't attend the lectures must study Nicola Gardini, Per una biblioteca indispensabile. Cinquantadue classici della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi, 2011.

Teaching methods

The lectures will focus on general problems concerning the major authors and texts of the italian tradition, and the discussion of chritical theories.

Assessment methods

Italian students must sit a written and then an oral exam. Foreign students (Erasmus and Overseas) don't have to sit a written exam. The oral exam, for all students, will concern the authors and the texts of the italian literature presented in the teacher's lectures, and analysed in the recommended readings.

Teaching tools

Lectures at the Biblioteca Classense ("Conversazioni dantesche")

Slides, CD and DVD

Online documents (IOL)

Office hours

See the website of Claudia Sebastiana Nobili

SDGs

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.