Italian linguistics and literature - Letteratura italiana (2015/2016)

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Course code
4S001178
Name of lecturer
Lorenzo Carpane'
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Academic sector
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE
Language of instruction
Italian
Period
Sem. IIB dal Apr 26, 2016 al May 30, 2016.
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Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

- obtain knowledge about
* some important texts of Italian literature
* tools of texts' comprehension and interpretation in order to teach
- obtain skills of
* literary texts' reading
* intertextual reading
* interdisciplinary reading, with particular attention to:
- uses and functions of literary and common day language
- sociological analysis of literature

Syllabus

1. Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia, Liber secundus de famiglia (excerpts)
2. Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, canto XII, ottave 18-40
3. Pescetti, La regia passerella (excerpts)
4. Cesare Pavese, La luna e i falò (whole book)
5. Matilde Serao, Il ventre di Napoli (only tale "La pietà")
6. Grazia Deledda, Il cedro del Libano (only tale "I vecchi e i giovani")
7. Eduardo De Filippo, Filumena Maturano (whole book)

Texts 1, 2, 5 are available as e-texts (www.bibliotecaitaliana.it; www.liberliber.it )
Text 6 is available at http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/documenti/17_59_20080903124236.pdf
Excerpts of text 3 are provided by the teacher in pdf format
Texts 4, 7 can be bought or loaned in library
Critics:

Handbook:
Alberto Casadei – Marco Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Bari, Laterza, 2007: the pages to be studied will be indicated during the lessons.

In order to save copyright, students are invited to buy the handbook

Lorenzo Carpanè, Adottare uno sguardo: l'adozione nella narrativa italiana tra fine Ottocento e primo Novecento. I casi di Serao, Deledda, Pavese, De Filippo, in press [pdf provided bu the teacher]

Roberto Ubbidiente, «’E figlie so’ piezz’ ’e core» ovvero l’utopia sociale di Eduardo De Filippo alla luce di «Filumena Marturano», «Scienza & Politica», 26 (2002), pp. 131-144 (pdf provided by the teacher).

Stefano Giovanardi, La luna e i falò di Cesare Pavese, in Letteratura italiana. Le opere. IV, Novecento. II. La ricerca letteraria, Torino, Einaudi, 1996, pp. 631-646

Biographies of the cited authors (Tasso excepted): use the items in "Dizionario biografico degli italiani", available both printed in libraries and on line (http://www.treccani.it/biografie/)

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam, with open-ended questions

STUDENT MODULE EVALUATION - 2015/2016

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