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CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPE TRAINA - Module The Twentieth Century's Profile - L-FIL-LET/11 - 6 CFU
ANTONINO SICHERA - Module Pirandello - L-FIL-LET/11 - 3 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• The Twentieth Century's Profile
  

  Knowledge and understandig: Knowledge of the fundamental elements of Italian literature of XX^th century; acquisition of philological research methodologies and literary criticism methodologies, with a special focus on the ability to analyse literary texts critically.

  Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to consider literary texts critically; ability to connect elements of one’s own culture with those of other cultures; ability to orient oneself within the printed and online bibliography; ability to link competences in an interdisciplinary fashion.

  Making judgement: Critical ability to combine literary competences acquired in an interdisciplinary fashion and to interpret different sociolinguistic and cultural domains from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.

  Communication skills: Ability to present the results of one’s study in complex ways; ability to discuss literary contents effectively and critically.

  Learning skills: Development of autonomous learning skills in studying the literary materials of the course with the aim of interacting with diverse interlocutors and in different working environments.

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Detailed Course Content

• The Twentieth Century's Profile
  

  1) Italian literature of the of the 20th century.

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Textbook Information

• The Twentieth Century's Profile
  

  1) A. Casadei, Storia della letteratura italiana. Vol. 6 Il Novecento, il Mulino;

  2) works of Ungaretti, Saba, Montale, Tozzi, Svevo, Brancati, Gadda, P. Levi, Pavese, Sereni, Pasolini, Caproni, Calvino, Sciascia.

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