LETTERATURA DEL MERIDIONE D’ITALIA

Knowledge and understandig: Knowledge of fundamental data of the southern Italian literary civilization of the twentieth century; learning of philological and critical-literary research methodologies, with particular regard to the ability to critically analyze the literary text.

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.

The lectures will be supplemented by seminars with other teachers and, if possible, by tests in progress.

Literature in Sicily in the late twentieth century

1. Literary texts:
   1. Vitaliano Brancati, Il bell’Antonio, Mondadori
   2. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo, Feltrinelli
   3. Leonardo Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo, Adelphi, or L’affaire Moro, Adelphi
   4. Gesualdo Bufalino, Diceria dell’untore, Bompiani, or Calende greche, Bompiani
   5. Vincenzo Consolo, Retablo, Mondadori or Lo spasimo di Palermo, Mondadori
   6. Giuliana Saladino, Romanzo civile, Sellerio
   7. Santo Piazzese, Il soffio della valanga, Sellerio
   8. Angelo M. Ripellino, Notizie dal diluvio – Sinfonietta – Lo splendido violino verde, Einaudi
2. Critical texts:
   1. Nunzio Zago, «Un’isola non abbastanza isola». I siciliani fra gli scrittori d’Italia (in Studium)
   2. Massimo Onofri, L’isola interminabile. Per un discorso sul Novecento siciliano (in Studium)
   3. Marina Paino, Geocritica di un mito insulare (in Studium)
   4. Giuseppe Traina, Siciliani ultimi? Tre studi su Sciascia, Bufalino, Consolo. E oltre, Mucchi (only for those who choose to read L’affaire Moro and Retablo)
   5. Giuseppe Traina, Autunnale ripelliniano, Quodlibet