OUTLINES OF CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Course objectives

The course aims to provide basic elements of literary language and history of 20th Century; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.

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CECILIA BELLO Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry The monographic subject of the course is the study of Italian poetry in the 20th century and intends to present a chronological and critical survey of the production of the last century, with appropriate preliminary references to the work of Pascoli, D'Annunzio and Lucini. The monographic course will pay particular attention to the poetics of the individual authors and to national and international intellectual correspondences, innovations and movements (symbolism, decadentism, the introduction of free verse, futurism, crepuscolarism, vocal expressionism, hermeticism, new and novissimi lyricists, women's poetry, the birth of postmodernism). Lessons will be devoted to contextualisation, analysis and philological and critical commentary of poetic texts, a literary genre whose specificity and evolution over the chronological span under examination will be highlighted from the beginning of the course. The course is conceived as a basic course of study for the first year of the course, therefore the monographic study of poetic texts must be based on a solid knowledge of the entire history of twentieth-century Italian literature, poetry and prose, from the end of the nineteenth century (from Pascoli and D'Annunzio) up to approximately 1980. The basic historical-literary preparation is completed by the reading of a novel of your choice. As an improvement, a complete reading of a poetry collection is required or, alternatively, listening to a musical work, or reading a play or watching a film (always to be chosen from among those indicated).
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the preparation of this course, especially for students who do not attend classes, are the following: 1) high school level knowledge of the history of late 19th and early 20th century Italian literature; 2) good knowledge of rhetoric, metrics and procedures of text analysis and critical interpretation; 2) sufficient historical knowledge of the literary period under study (1880-1980); 3) sufficient linguistic and historical-literary knowledge of non-Italian cultures in the period under study (1880-1980).
Books
Exam texts The five points in which the bibliography is articulated are all mandatory; during the exam it is essential that students have with them the books they have read and studied (anthology of twentieth century poetry and other works of their choice): the analysis and the critical comment of poetic and narrative texts are a substantial part of the examination. 1) Romano Luperini, Pietro Cataldi e Marianna Marrucci, Storia della Letteratura italiana contemporanea, Palermo, Palumbo, 2012. 2) Reading of (at least) one work of your choice from the following: -Gabriele D’Annunzio, Il fuoco [1900], a cura di Pietro Gibellini, Milano, BUR, Rizzoli, 2009. -Sibilla Aleramo, Una donna [1906], prefazione di Anna Folli, postfazione di Emilio Cecchi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2022. -Aldo Palazzeschi, Il Codice di Perelà. Romanzo futurista [1911], a cura di Marco Marchi, Milano, Mondadori, 2014. -Federigo Tozzi, Il podere [1921], a cura di Luigi Baldacci, Milano, Garzanti, 2007. -Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno [1923], a cura di Cristina Benussi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014. -Luigi Pirandello, I quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore [1925], a cura di Simona Costa, Oscar Mondadori, 2013. -Alberto Moravia, Gli indifferenti [1929], introduzione di Edoardo Sanguineti, bibliografia di Tonino Tornitore, cronologia di Eileen Romano, Milano, Bompiani, 2012. -Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia [1941], nuova edizione aggiornata a cura di Giovanni Falaschi, Milano, BUR Contemporanea, 2014. -Paola Masino, Nascita e morte della massaia [1945], a cura di Elisa Gambaro, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019. -Fausta Cialente, Cortile a Cleopatra [1946], Milano, La Tartaruga, 2022. -Anna Banti, Artemisia [1947], con uno scritto di Attilio Bertolucci, Milano, SE; 2015. -Curzio Malaparte, La pelle [1949], a cura di Caterina Guagni e Giorgio Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2016.banti -Cesare Pavese, La luna e i falò [1950], introduzione di Gian Luigi Beccaria, Torino, Einaudi, 2014. -Anna Maria Ortese, Il mare non bagna Napoli [1953], prefazione di Pietro Citati, Milano, Adelphi, 2008. -Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ragazzi di vita [1955], Prefazione di Vincenzo Cerami, Milano, Garzanti, 2014. -Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana [1957], a cura di Giorgio Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2023. -Ottiero Ottieri, Tempi stretti [1957], Matelica (MC), Hacca, 2011. -Alberto Arbasino, L’Anonimo lombardo [1959], Milano, Adelphi, 1996. -Paolo Volponi, Memoriale [1962], Torino, Einaudi, 2016. -Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico familiare [1963], introduzione di Cesare Segre, Torino, Einaudi, 2014. -Edoardo Sanguineti, Capriccio italiano [1963], prefazione di Erminio Risso, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2021. -Luigi Malerba, Il serpente [1966], Milano, Mondadori, 1999. -Fausta Cialente, Un inverno freddissimo [1966], a cura di Emmanuela Carbè, Milano, Nottetempo, 2022. -Antonio Porta, Partita [1967], Perugia, Tozzuolo, 2017. -Nanni Balestrini, Vogliamo tutto [1971], Milano, Mondadori, 2013. -Gianna Manzini, Ritratto in piedi [1971], Milano, Mondadori, 2011. -Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili [1972], presentazione dell’autore, con uno scritto di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oscar Mondadori, 2016. -Giorgio Manganelli, Pinocchio: un libro parallelo [1977], Milano, Adelphi, 2002. -Paolo Volponi, Il lanciatore di giavellotto [1981], Torino, Einaudi 2015. -Elsa Morante, Aracoeli [1982], Torino, Einaudi, 2015. 3) Poesia italiana del Novecento, a cura di Edoardo Sanguineti, Torino, Einaudi, 2007 [I ed. 1969], I e II volume con l’esclusione dei seguenti autori: Vallini, Oxilia, Martini, Chiaves, Cavacchioli, Farfa, Fillia, Sinisgalli, De Libero, Erba. 4) Any additional texts provided in class and available on Google Classroom. 5A) Preferably for Languages, Cultures, Literatures, Translation One poetic work in unabridged reading from a choice of the following: -Giovanni Pascoli, Mirycae [1981-1903], a cura di Gianfranca Lavezzi, Rizzoli, 2015, oppure Canti di Castelvecchio [1903], introduzione e note di Giuseppe Nava, Milano, Rizzoli, 1983. -Gabriele D’Annunzio, Alcyone [1903], a cura di Pietro Gibellini, Milano, Garzanti, 2006. -Sergio Corazzini – Alberto Tarchiani, Piccolo libro inutile [1904], a cura di Stefania Iannella, Genova, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2013. -Corrado Govoni, Gli aborti [1907]. Le poesie d’Arlecchino. I cenci dell’anima, a cura di Francesco Targhetta, Genova, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2008 oppure Rarefazioni e parole in libertà [1915], Genova, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2006. -Guido Gozzano, I colloqui [1911], in Id., Le poesie, a cura di Edoardo Sanguineti, Torino, Einaudi, 2016. -Aldo Palazzeschi, L’incendiario [1911], a cura di Giuseppe Nicoletti, Milano, Mondadori, 2021. -Dino Campana, Canti Orfici [1914], a cura di Fiorenza Ceragioli, Milano, BUR, 1989. -Clemente Rebora, Frammenti lirici (1913-1920) in Id., Poesie, prose e traduzioni, a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Adele Dei, con la collaborazione di Paolo Maccari, Milano, Mondadori, 2015 oppure Tra melma e sangue. Lettere e poesie di guerra, a cura di Valerio Rossi, Novara, Interlinea, 2008. -Camillo Sbarbaro, Pianissimo [1914], a cura di Lorenzo Polato, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001. -Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia [1925, ed. rivista 1928], a cura di Pietro Cataldi e Floriana D’Amely, Milano, Mondadori, 2016. -Giuseppe Ungaretti, L’Allegria [versione 1931], in Id., Vita d’un uomo, Milano, Mondadori, 2016. -Cesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca [1936, versione rivista 1943], a cura di Mariarosa Masoero, introduzione di Vittorio Coletti, Torino, Einaudi, 2001. -Umberto Saba, Il canzoniere [antologia 1900-1954], Torino, Einaudi, 2014. -Elio Pagliarani, La ragazza Carla [1960], prefazione di Aldo Nove, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2021. -Amelia Rosselli, Variazioni belliche, a cura di Emmanuela Tandello, Milano, Garzanti, 2021. 5B) Preferably for Literature, Music, Performance Listening to a musical work of your choice from the following: -Luciano Berio, Laborintus II, per voci, strumenti e nastro magnetico, testi di Edoardo Sanguineti, 1965, disponibile online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUlhGqEPLZQ oppure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cCFlPBMCE con lettura facoltativa del saggio: Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, «Vociferazione» e «discorso ininterrotto»: aspetti testuali nelle prime collaborazioni di Berio e Sanguineti (1961-1965), in Ead., La distruzione da vicino. Forme e figure delle avanguardie del secondo Novecento, Salerno, Oèdipus, 2012, pp. 33-76. -Luigi Nono, Contrappunto dialettico alla mente, per nastro magnetico stereofonico, testi Celia Sánchez, Nanni Balestrini, manifesto delle Enraged Women del Progressive Labour Party di Harlem, 1968, disponibile online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHi6JVMowE Accompagnato dalla visione dell’intervista esplicativa a Nanni Balestrini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJgUTmu1IP0) e, facoltativamente, dalla lettura del saggio di Tommaso Pomilio, «Un silenzio pieno di rumori». Balestrini de-compositore, in Ascolto. Atti del Seminario permanente di narratologia, 18-19 maggio 2021, a cura di G. Episcopo e S. Sullam, Milano, Biblion, 2022, pp. 147-181. Or reading a play of your choice from the following: -Luigi Pirandello, Il giuoco delle parti [1918], Milano, Rizzoli, 2007 Accompagnato dalla visione della storica interpretazione di Romolo Valli e Rossella Falk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWa9FjCTOA) -Id., Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore [1921], Torino, Einaudi, 2014 Accompagnato dalla visione della storica interpretazione di Romolo Valli e Rossella Falk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpfKafnPMk) Or watching the film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, 1961 con facoltativi ausili critici tratti dai seguenti volumi: -Accattone. L’esordio di Pier Paolo Pasolini raccontato dai documenti, a cura di Luciano De Giusti e Roberto Chiesi, Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna, 2015. -Stefania Parigi, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Accattone, Milano, Lindau, 2021. -Giona Tuccini, Degno del cielo. Umanesimo plebeo e poetica del sacrificio in Accattone di Pasolini, Roma, Carocci, 2021. Theoretical and manual tools (recommended, not mandatory) -Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012. -Paolo Giovannetti e Gianfranca Lavezzi, La metrica italiana contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2020. -Jurij Lotman, La struttura del testo poetico, a cura di Eridano Bazzarelli, traduzioni di Eridano Bazzarelli, Erika Klein, Gabriella Schiaffino, Milano, Mursia, 2019 – solo il capitolo 6. Elementi e livelli della paradigmatica del testo artistico, pp. 120-239. -Luigi Matt, Manuale di stilistica, Firenze, Vallecchi, 2024. -Bice Mortara Garavelli, Manuale di retorica, Milano, Bompiani, 2018. -Uberto Motta, «Lingua mortal non dice». Guida alla lettura del testo poetico, Roma, Carocci, 2020. -Francesco Muzzioli, L’analisi del testo letterario. Primi strumenti di metrica, retorica, tecnica narrativa e scritture alternative, Roma, Empirìa, 2012.
Teaching mode
The course will take place in 84 hours of lessons. The lessons will have, if necessary, a dialogic and interactive character.
Frequency
Although it is optional, attendance is highly recommended since the course has among its objectives not only the acquisition of historical literary knowledge, to which the manuals can offer a good contribution, but also the acquisition of in-depth analysis of literary texts of the twentieth century in prose and poetry and the development of autonomous skills of critical judgment argued and supported by textual evidence.
Exam mode
N.B. It is essential to bring all the poetic texts read in printed version to the examination, as part of the examination will focus on textual analysis. The oral exam will verify the acquired historical-literary knowledge, the capacity for rhetorical-metric and stylistic analysis of poetic and narrative texts (both mandatory and chosen), the formulation of comments, autonomous interpretations and critical judgments based on textual evidence. The oral tests will be appropriate to the level of the three-year degree in which the course is inserted. In order to have sufficient evaluation (18/30) students will have to express themselves fluently and correctly in Italian, albeit with a simple or limited vocabulary, they must read literary texts competently and must have sufficient knowledge of literary history according to clear chronological coordinates, they must also demonstrate a dignified capacity for analysis and for text comment. To have a medium-low evaluation (between 20/30 and 23/30) students will have to know the course topics well enough by showing at most small gaps and keeping enough control over the correctness and fluidity of the exposure in Italian. To have a medium-high evaluation (between 24/30 and 28/30) students will have to know the course topics confidently, they will be able to argue critical judgments based on textual data and not on personal impressions or tastes, and must keep under control the correctness and fluidity of the exposure in Italian. To get the maximum evaluation (30/30 or 30 cum laude) students must have a rich lexical command of the Italian language, grammatical correctness and solid control of syntactic structures. They must also demonstrate excellent (not just manuals) knowledge of literary history, without uncertainties or gaps, they must be able to analyze, comment and critically interpret poetic and narrative texts (either mandatory or optional), but above all they must be able to identify correspondences between authors and building critical reflections based on verifiable textual data. NB: It is understood that the teacher reserves the right to supplement or replace the oral test with a written test if emergency conditions or teaching opportunities make this provision unavoidable.
Bibliography
The primary bibliography is indicated in the Texts section.
Lesson mode
The course will take place mainly through traditional lessons (exposition, reading, commentary, discussion and comparison with those present) and possibly, to a lesser extent, through small seminars or speeches in which students will have to participate actively by proposing content and autonomous reworking of themes or issues addressed in the course and examination program. Given the nature of the course, it is possible that the lessons will include projections of Italian and foreign works of art from the period under examination.
CECILIA BELLO Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry The monographic subject of the course is the study of Italian poetry in the 20th century and intends to present a chronological and critical survey of the production of the last century, with appropriate preliminary references to the work of Pascoli, D'Annunzio and Lucini. The monographic course will pay particular attention to the poetics of the individual authors and to national and international intellectual correspondences, innovations and movements (symbolism, decadentism, the introduction of free verse, futurism, crepuscolarism, vocal expressionism, hermeticism, new and novissimi lyricists, women's poetry, the birth of postmodernism). Lessons will be devoted to contextualisation, analysis and philological and critical commentary of poetic texts, a literary genre whose specificity and evolution over the chronological span under examination will be highlighted from the beginning of the course. The course is conceived as a basic course of study for the first year of the course, therefore the monographic study of poetic texts must be based on a solid knowledge of the entire history of twentieth-century Italian literature, poetry and prose, from the end of the nineteenth century (from Pascoli and D'Annunzio) up to approximately 1980. The basic historical-literary preparation is completed by the reading of a novel of your choice. As an improvement, a complete reading of a poetry collection is required or, alternatively, listening to a musical work, or reading a play or watching a film (always to be chosen from among those indicated).
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the preparation of this course, especially for students who do not attend classes, are the following: 1) high school level knowledge of the history of late 19th and early 20th century Italian literature; 2) good knowledge of rhetoric, metrics and procedures of text analysis and critical interpretation; 2) sufficient historical knowledge of the literary period under study (1880-1980); 3) sufficient linguistic and historical-literary knowledge of non-Italian cultures in the period under study (1880-1980).
Books
Exam texts The five points in which the bibliography is articulated are all mandatory; during the exam it is essential that students have with them the books they have read and studied (anthology of twentieth century poetry and other works of their choice): the analysis and the critical comment of poetic and narrative texts are a substantial part of the examination. 1) Romano Luperini, Pietro Cataldi e Marianna Marrucci, Storia della Letteratura italiana contemporanea, Palermo, Palumbo, 2012. 2) Reading of (at least) one work of your choice from the following: -Gabriele D’Annunzio, Il fuoco [1900], a cura di Pietro Gibellini, Milano, BUR, Rizzoli, 2009. -Sibilla Aleramo, Una donna [1906], prefazione di Anna Folli, postfazione di Emilio Cecchi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2022. -Aldo Palazzeschi, Il Codice di Perelà. Romanzo futurista [1911], a cura di Marco Marchi, Milano, Mondadori, 2014. -Federigo Tozzi, Il podere [1921], a cura di Luigi Baldacci, Milano, Garzanti, 2007. -Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno [1923], a cura di Cristina Benussi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014. -Luigi Pirandello, I quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore [1925], a cura di Simona Costa, Oscar Mondadori, 2013. -Alberto Moravia, Gli indifferenti [1929], introduzione di Edoardo Sanguineti, bibliografia di Tonino Tornitore, cronologia di Eileen Romano, Milano, Bompiani, 2012. -Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia [1941], nuova edizione aggiornata a cura di Giovanni Falaschi, Milano, BUR Contemporanea, 2014. -Paola Masino, Nascita e morte della massaia [1945], a cura di Elisa Gambaro, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019. -Fausta Cialente, Cortile a Cleopatra [1946], Milano, La Tartaruga, 2022. -Anna Banti, Artemisia [1947], con uno scritto di Attilio Bertolucci, Milano, SE; 2015. -Curzio Malaparte, La pelle [1949], a cura di Caterina Guagni e Giorgio Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2016.banti -Cesare Pavese, La luna e i falò [1950], introduzione di Gian Luigi Beccaria, Torino, Einaudi, 2014. -Anna Maria Ortese, Il mare non bagna Napoli [1953], prefazione di Pietro Citati, Milano, Adelphi, 2008. -Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ragazzi di vita [1955], Prefazione di Vincenzo Cerami, Milano, Garzanti, 2014. -Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana [1957], a cura di Giorgio Pinotti, Milano, Adelphi, 2023. -Ottiero Ottieri, Tempi stretti [1957], Matelica (MC), Hacca, 2011. -Alberto Arbasino, L’Anonimo lombardo [1959], Milano, Adelphi, 1996. -Paolo Volponi, Memoriale [1962], Torino, Einaudi, 2016. -Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico familiare [1963], introduzione di Cesare Segre, Torino, Einaudi, 2014. -Edoardo Sanguineti, Capriccio italiano [1963], prefazione di Erminio Risso, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2021. -Luigi Malerba, Il serpente [1966], Milano, Mondadori, 1999. -Fausta Cialente, Un inverno freddissimo [1966], a cura di Emmanuela Carbè, Milano, Nottetempo, 2022. -Antonio Porta, Partita [1967], Perugia, Tozzuolo, 2017. -Nanni Balestrini, Vogliamo tutto [1971], Milano, Mondadori, 2013. -Gianna Manzini, Ritratto in piedi [1971], Milano, Mondadori, 2011. -Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili [1972], presentazione dell’autore, con uno scritto di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oscar Mondadori, 2016. -Giorgio Manganelli, Pinocchio: un libro parallelo [1977], Milano, Adelphi, 2002. -Paolo Volponi, Il lanciatore di giavellotto [1981], Torino, Einaudi 2015. -Elsa Morante, Aracoeli [1982], Torino, Einaudi, 2015. 3) Poesia italiana del Novecento, a cura di Edoardo Sanguineti, Torino, Einaudi, 2007 [I ed. 1969], I e II volume con l’esclusione dei seguenti autori: Vallini, Oxilia, Martini, Chiaves, Cavacchioli, Farfa, Fillia, Sinisgalli, De Libero, Erba. 4) Any additional texts provided in class and available on Google Classroom. 5A) Preferably for Languages, Cultures, Literatures, Translation One poetic work in unabridged reading from a choice of the following: -Giovanni Pascoli, Mirycae [1981-1903], a cura di Gianfranca Lavezzi, Rizzoli, 2015, oppure Canti di Castelvecchio [1903], introduzione e note di Giuseppe Nava, Milano, Rizzoli, 1983. -Gabriele D’Annunzio, Alcyone [1903], a cura di Pietro Gibellini, Milano, Garzanti, 2006. -Sergio Corazzini – Alberto Tarchiani, Piccolo libro inutile [1904], a cura di Stefania Iannella, Genova, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2013. -Corrado Govoni, Gli aborti [1907]. Le poesie d’Arlecchino. I cenci dell’anima, a cura di Francesco Targhetta, Genova, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2008 oppure Rarefazioni e parole in libertà [1915], Genova, San Marco dei Giustiniani, 2006. -Guido Gozzano, I colloqui [1911], in Id., Le poesie, a cura di Edoardo Sanguineti, Torino, Einaudi, 2016. -Aldo Palazzeschi, L’incendiario [1911], a cura di Giuseppe Nicoletti, Milano, Mondadori, 2021. -Dino Campana, Canti Orfici [1914], a cura di Fiorenza Ceragioli, Milano, BUR, 1989. -Clemente Rebora, Frammenti lirici (1913-1920) in Id., Poesie, prose e traduzioni, a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Adele Dei, con la collaborazione di Paolo Maccari, Milano, Mondadori, 2015 oppure Tra melma e sangue. Lettere e poesie di guerra, a cura di Valerio Rossi, Novara, Interlinea, 2008. -Camillo Sbarbaro, Pianissimo [1914], a cura di Lorenzo Polato, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001. -Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia [1925, ed. rivista 1928], a cura di Pietro Cataldi e Floriana D’Amely, Milano, Mondadori, 2016. -Giuseppe Ungaretti, L’Allegria [versione 1931], in Id., Vita d’un uomo, Milano, Mondadori, 2016. -Cesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca [1936, versione rivista 1943], a cura di Mariarosa Masoero, introduzione di Vittorio Coletti, Torino, Einaudi, 2001. -Umberto Saba, Il canzoniere [antologia 1900-1954], Torino, Einaudi, 2014. -Elio Pagliarani, La ragazza Carla [1960], prefazione di Aldo Nove, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2021. -Amelia Rosselli, Variazioni belliche, a cura di Emmanuela Tandello, Milano, Garzanti, 2021. 5B) Preferably for Literature, Music, Performance Listening to a musical work of your choice from the following: -Luciano Berio, Laborintus II, per voci, strumenti e nastro magnetico, testi di Edoardo Sanguineti, 1965, disponibile online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUlhGqEPLZQ oppure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cCFlPBMCE con lettura facoltativa del saggio: Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, «Vociferazione» e «discorso ininterrotto»: aspetti testuali nelle prime collaborazioni di Berio e Sanguineti (1961-1965), in Ead., La distruzione da vicino. Forme e figure delle avanguardie del secondo Novecento, Salerno, Oèdipus, 2012, pp. 33-76. -Luigi Nono, Contrappunto dialettico alla mente, per nastro magnetico stereofonico, testi Celia Sánchez, Nanni Balestrini, manifesto delle Enraged Women del Progressive Labour Party di Harlem, 1968, disponibile online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHi6JVMowE Accompagnato dalla visione dell’intervista esplicativa a Nanni Balestrini (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJgUTmu1IP0) e, facoltativamente, dalla lettura del saggio di Tommaso Pomilio, «Un silenzio pieno di rumori». Balestrini de-compositore, in Ascolto. Atti del Seminario permanente di narratologia, 18-19 maggio 2021, a cura di G. Episcopo e S. Sullam, Milano, Biblion, 2022, pp. 147-181. Or reading a play of your choice from the following: -Luigi Pirandello, Il giuoco delle parti [1918], Milano, Rizzoli, 2007 Accompagnato dalla visione della storica interpretazione di Romolo Valli e Rossella Falk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWa9FjCTOA) -Id., Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore [1921], Torino, Einaudi, 2014 Accompagnato dalla visione della storica interpretazione di Romolo Valli e Rossella Falk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpfKafnPMk) Or watching the film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, 1961 con facoltativi ausili critici tratti dai seguenti volumi: -Accattone. L’esordio di Pier Paolo Pasolini raccontato dai documenti, a cura di Luciano De Giusti e Roberto Chiesi, Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna, 2015. -Stefania Parigi, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Accattone, Milano, Lindau, 2021. -Giona Tuccini, Degno del cielo. Umanesimo plebeo e poetica del sacrificio in Accattone di Pasolini, Roma, Carocci, 2021. Theoretical and manual tools (recommended, not mandatory) -Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012. -Paolo Giovannetti e Gianfranca Lavezzi, La metrica italiana contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2020. -Jurij Lotman, La struttura del testo poetico, a cura di Eridano Bazzarelli, traduzioni di Eridano Bazzarelli, Erika Klein, Gabriella Schiaffino, Milano, Mursia, 2019 – solo il capitolo 6. Elementi e livelli della paradigmatica del testo artistico, pp. 120-239. -Luigi Matt, Manuale di stilistica, Firenze, Vallecchi, 2024. -Bice Mortara Garavelli, Manuale di retorica, Milano, Bompiani, 2018. -Uberto Motta, «Lingua mortal non dice». Guida alla lettura del testo poetico, Roma, Carocci, 2020. -Francesco Muzzioli, L’analisi del testo letterario. Primi strumenti di metrica, retorica, tecnica narrativa e scritture alternative, Roma, Empirìa, 2012.
Teaching mode
The course will take place in 84 hours of lessons. The lessons will have, if necessary, a dialogic and interactive character.
Frequency
Although it is optional, attendance is highly recommended since the course has among its objectives not only the acquisition of historical literary knowledge, to which the manuals can offer a good contribution, but also the acquisition of in-depth analysis of literary texts of the twentieth century in prose and poetry and the development of autonomous skills of critical judgment argued and supported by textual evidence.
Exam mode
N.B. It is essential to bring all the poetic texts read in printed version to the examination, as part of the examination will focus on textual analysis. The oral exam will verify the acquired historical-literary knowledge, the capacity for rhetorical-metric and stylistic analysis of poetic and narrative texts (both mandatory and chosen), the formulation of comments, autonomous interpretations and critical judgments based on textual evidence. The oral tests will be appropriate to the level of the three-year degree in which the course is inserted. In order to have sufficient evaluation (18/30) students will have to express themselves fluently and correctly in Italian, albeit with a simple or limited vocabulary, they must read literary texts competently and must have sufficient knowledge of literary history according to clear chronological coordinates, they must also demonstrate a dignified capacity for analysis and for text comment. To have a medium-low evaluation (between 20/30 and 23/30) students will have to know the course topics well enough by showing at most small gaps and keeping enough control over the correctness and fluidity of the exposure in Italian. To have a medium-high evaluation (between 24/30 and 28/30) students will have to know the course topics confidently, they will be able to argue critical judgments based on textual data and not on personal impressions or tastes, and must keep under control the correctness and fluidity of the exposure in Italian. To get the maximum evaluation (30/30 or 30 cum laude) students must have a rich lexical command of the Italian language, grammatical correctness and solid control of syntactic structures. They must also demonstrate excellent (not just manuals) knowledge of literary history, without uncertainties or gaps, they must be able to analyze, comment and critically interpret poetic and narrative texts (either mandatory or optional), but above all they must be able to identify correspondences between authors and building critical reflections based on verifiable textual data. NB: It is understood that the teacher reserves the right to supplement or replace the oral test with a written test if emergency conditions or teaching opportunities make this provision unavoidable.
Bibliography
The primary bibliography is indicated in the Texts section.
Lesson mode
The course will take place mainly through traditional lessons (exposition, reading, commentary, discussion and comparison with those present) and possibly, to a lesser extent, through small seminars or speeches in which students will have to participate actively by proposing content and autonomous reworking of themes or issues addressed in the course and examination program. Given the nature of the course, it is possible that the lessons will include projections of Italian and foreign works of art from the period under examination.
  • Lesson code1023186
  • Academic year2024/2025
  • CourseLiterature Music Performing Arts
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDL-FIL-LET/11
  • CFU12
  • Subject areaLetterature moderne