ITALIAN LITERATURE II COURSE

9 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

AGNESE ROSA AMADURI - Module LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) -MODULO A - L-FIL-LET/10 - 6 CFU
ANTONIO DI GRADO - Module LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) - MODULO B - L-FIL-LET/10 - 3 CFU

Learning Objectives

LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) -MODULO A
Providing students with a knowledge of the main authors and works of Italian Literature from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth century.
LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) - MODULO B
Providing students with a knowledge of the main authors and works of Italian Literature from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth century.

Detailed Course Content

LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) -MODULO A
1. Literary history of the Eighteenth century (2 CFU).
2. Literary history of the Nineteenth century (4 CFU).
LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) - MODULO B
C) History of modern novel (3 CFU).

Textbook Information

LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) -MODULO A
A)

For the history of Italian Literature from the first 18^th to the end of the 19^th century, we recommend (both for Modulo A and Modulo B): A. Casadei-M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Laterza or A. Battistini (a cura di), Letteratura italiana. II. Dal Settecento ai giorni nostri, Il Mulino, or another History of Italian Literature chosen by the student and approved by the teacher.

Vittorio Alfieri, Saul (edition chosen by the student) and Enrico Ghidetti, Saul, in «La Rassegna della Letteratura italiana», 2 (2003), pp. 637-655.

Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri (edition chosen by the student) and N. Mineo, Foscolo, Bonanno, cap. IV.

It is also required to study particularly the following writers, with an appropriate selection of literary text: Giambattista Vico, Pietro Metastasio, Carlo Goldoni, Giuseppe Parini, Vittorio Alfieri, Ugo Foscolo.

B)

Alessandro Manzoni, Storia della Colonna infame (edition chosen by the student) and Ermanno Paccagnini, Nota critico-filologica: La «Colonna infame», in A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi 1840, Meridiani Mondadori

Giacomo Leopardi, I Canti (edition chosen by the student) and Giorgio Ficara, Il punto di vista della natura, in G. Leopardi, Canti, Oscar Mondadori.

Giovanni Verga, I Malavoglia (edition chosen by the student) and Andrea Manganaro, Verga, Bonanno, cap. VI.

It is also required to study particularly the following writers, with an appropriate selection of literary text: Alessandro Manzoni, Giacomo Leopardi, Ippolito Nievo, Luigi Capuana, Francesco De Sanctis, Giovanni Verga, Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Federico De Roberto.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
LETTERATURA ITALIANA (II CORSO) - MODULO B
C)

Two novels chosen from: Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis; Stendhal, Il rosso e il nero; Flaubert, Madame Bovary oppure L’educazione sentimentale; Zola, Germinal oppure La bestia umana; Dostoevskij, I fratelli Karamazov; D’Annunzio, Il piacere; De Roberto, Spasimo oppure L’Imperio; Pirandello, Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore; Tozzi, Con gli occhi chiusi oppure Tre croci; Borgese, Rubè; Moravia, Gli indifferenti; Mann, La morte a Venezia; Proust, La strada di Swann; Kafka, Il processo. Editions of your choice, but accompanied by a suitable critical introduction.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

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