ITALIAN LITERATURE A - L

12 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARGHERITA VERDIRAME - Module MODULE A - L-FIL-LET/10 - 6 CFU
ANDREA MANGANARO - Module MODULE B - L-FIL-LET/10 - 6 CFU

Learning Objectives

MODULE A
Acquire knowledge of the conduct of Italian literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth century through the direct reading, commentary, historical contextualization and interpretation of texts of our literary tradition.
MODULE B
Acquiring knowledge of Italian literature development from the thirteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century through direct reading, commentary and interpretation of texts of Italian literary tradition; acquiring a discrete critical sense and a decent ability to interpretation.

Detailed Course Content

MODULE A
1. Institutional and epistemological aspects of the discipline: historiographical issues, critical methodologies, rhetoric and metrics. Literary history (centuries XVII-XIX up to Pirandello included). Critical reading of texts of representative authors of the last three centuries of our literary tradition (1 CFU).
2. 2.Literary history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - Marino, Vico (2 CFU).
3. Literary history the nineteenth to the early twentieth century - Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, Pirandello (3 CFU).
MODULE B
1. Institutional and epistemological aspects of the discipline: historiographical issues, critical methodologies, rhetoric and metrics (1 CFU).
2. Literary history of the thirteenth century. - Dante: Commedia (2 CFU).
3. Literary history from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century. - Boccaccio, Decameron: variety and mutability of human events. - Petrarca: key ideas and lyrical self. (2 CFU).
4. Literary history of the sixteenth century - Ariosto, Orlando furioso (1 CFU).

Textbook Information

MODULE A
A) - F. Muzzioli, Le teorie della critica letteraria, Roma, Carocci, 2005 (photocopies), 60 pp.

P.G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012 (chapters I-VII, X), 60 pp.

B, C) For authors and topics listed under B and C, knowledge of the development of Italian literature in its main lines from the 17th century to Pirandello is required. At the examination the student must provide a reasonable list of anthological readings; moreover, he must have his own copies of the books, both the ones listed in the program and the ones he has chosen.

Topics and texts discussed during the lessons must be studied most thoroughly.

Texts:

History of Italian literature (17th-19th cent. only): one text at choice:

G. Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 250.

R. Verdirame, Narratrici e lettrici (1850-1950). Le letture della nonna dalla contessa Lara a Luciana Peverelli (con testi rari e documenti inediti), Padova, Libreria Universitaria, 2009, pp. 150.

Required readings:

G.B. Marino, 10 poetic texts at choice, any edition;

G.B. Vico, Vita scritta da se stesso, a cura di R. Verdirame, Catania, CUECM, 2007, pp. 120;

U. Foscolo, I Sepolcri (full reading), any edition;

G. Leopardi, 10 Canti at choice, any edition;

G. Leopardi, 5 Operette morali at choice, any edition;

A. Manzoni, five chapters at choice from I promessi sposi, any edition;

A. Manzoni, one of the Odi and one of the Inni at choice, any edition;

L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal, any edition.

Recommended manuals (one at choice) for anthological readings by other authors of the 17th-19th century:

R. Luperini, P. Cataldi, et al., La scrittura e l’interpretazione, Palermo, Palumbo, 2012, pp. 150.

E. Raimondi, G. M. Anselmi, et al., Leggere come io l’intendo…, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2012, pp. 150.

These manuals can also be used to study literary history and authors.
MODULE B
A)

Texts:
- C. Segre, Avviamento all’analisi del testo letterario, Torino, Einaudi, 1985, pp. 5-15, 24-28, 34-36, 40-42, 79-90, 96-98, 102-104 (photocopies).
- F. Muzzioli, Le teorie della critica letteraria, Roma, Carocci, 2005: cap. 3 (L’analisi del linguaggio), pp. 85-100; cap. 4 (La critica dell’ideologia), pp. 115-132; cap. 5 (La psicoanalisi applicata alla letteratura), pp. 149-155, 167-170; cap. 6 (Dalla parte della lettura), pp. 173-175, 186-193; cap. 7 (Bachtin), pp. 197-201 (photocopies).
- O. Reboul, Introduzione alla retorica, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009, cap. 5 (L’argomentazione), pp. 101-113; cap. 6 (Le figure), pp. 121-158.
- P.G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012; cfr. chapters I-VII, X.
For authors and topics indicated in modules B, C, D we require knowledge of the lines of development of Italian literature from the thirteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century. The student must take care in particular, with a fair witness anthology of readings, knowledge of the following authors: Francesco d’Assisi, Jacopo da Lentini, Cielo d’Alcamo, Guido Guinizelli, Guido Cavalcanti, Cecco Angiolieri, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Pulci, Boiardo, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Castiglione, Ariosto, Tasso. At the time of the examination, the student must submit a written list of readings carried out, specifying, if the work is not complete, which poetry or prose has chosen; in class and on site studium.unict.it will still be given an indication of the recommended readings. Need to be fleshed particularly the topics and texts discussed in class.

For the history of literature, it is recommended the study of the following works: A. Casadei - M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza; or Letteratura italiana. Dalle origini al Seicento, a cura di A. Battistini, Bologna, il Mulino. For the reading of the anthological passages it is recommended to use one of the following manuals: R. Luperini, P. Cataldi, et alii, La scrittura e l’interpretazione (or Perché la letteratura) Palermo, Palumbo; G. Baldi, S. Giusso et alii, Dal testo alla storia dalla storia al testo, Torino, Paravia. These manuals may also be adopted for the study of literary history and authors, as an alternative to those of A. Casadei - M. Santagata and of A. Battistini.

B)

Texts:
- A. Casadei - M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana, cit., pp. 5-68; oppure Letteratura italiana edited by A. Battistini, cit., pp. 21-126.
- Dante, Divina Commedia: eighteen canti of your choice. We recommend a good annotated edition, integral, of Commedia (edited by A.M Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori, edited by U. Bosco - G. Reggio, Le Monnier, edited by E. Pasquini - A. Quaglio, Garzanti, edited by N. Sapegno, La Nuova Italia). It can also be taken the anthology La Divina Commedia. Testi Strumenti Percorsi, edited by N. Mineo, Palumbo).
- To frame the author and his work: G. Ledda, Dante, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 10-132.
  
  C)
Texts:
- A. Casadei - M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana, cit., pp. 69-143; oppure Letteratura italiana, edited by A. Battistini, cit., pp. 127-272.
- G. Boccaccio, Decameron, edited by V. Branca, Milano, Mondadori, 2006 («I Meridiani»); or edited by A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Milano, BUR, 2013: the first, third, tenth day; sixth day: I, VII, IX.
- A. Manganaro, L’«altra, che vostra fu». L’alterità nella novella di Gualtieri e Griselda (Decameron, X, 10), in «Le forme e la storia», VIII, 2015, 2 (Letteratura, alterità, dialogicità. Studi in onore di Antonio Pioletti), pp. 577-594.
- L. Chines, Francesco Petrarca, Bologna, Patron, 2016: Introduction; texts by Rerum familiarum libri, Rerum senilium libri, Secretum, De remediis utriusque fortunae, Canzoniere, Trionfi (about 60 pages).
  
  D)
Texts:
- A. Casadei - M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana, cit., pp. 147-218; or Letteratura italiana, edited by A. Battistini, cit., pp. 273-410.
- L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso: five canti (reccomended editions: Bigi, Milano, Bur, 2012; Segre, Milano, Mondadori, 2006; Caretti, Torino, Einaudi, 1992) (about 80 pages).
To frame the author and his work: S. Jossa, Ariosto, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009 (about 100 pages).

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