Modern humanities

ROBERTO GIGLIUCCI

The main objectives are the knowledge of the evolution of Italian literary history in the last two centuries; an adequate knowledge of the development of literary genres, trends and languages of the last decades; the acquisition, also through targeted exercises, of the methodological tools that allow the comprehension and analysis of narrative and poetic texts, carried out autonomously by the students; the development of a good ability to analyze literary communication and the interaction between literary text and the surrounding society, between the author and the public. The main secondary objectives are: a further development, compared to the skills acquired in secondary school, of an oral and written expression capacity appropriate to the topic under discussion; the acquisition and mastery of an appropriate vocabulary; the development of interdisciplinary skills, mostly in relation to the visual arts and new languages.

Orientation between 20th-century and late 19th-century themes and currents; knowledge of the debate on modernity and modernism; acquisition of insights into individual authors.

Basic knowledge of Modern Italian Literature.

Between the 19th and 20th centuries: modernism and the avant-garde; continuity and changes in prose and poetry

Debenedetti, Il romanzo del Novecento, Garzanti
Friedrich, Struttura della lirica moderna, Garzanti
Svevo, Senilità, Mondadori
Tozzi, Tre croci, Garzanti
Ungaretti, Sentimento del tempo, Mondadori
Montale, Ossi di seppia, Mondadori

R. Gigliucci, Il sogno della prosa, Lithos

Face-to-face lessons and workshops

Not mandatory

For those attending: discussion of the topics covered in class; for those not attending: discussion of the course syllabus.

What is modernism?
What is the role of the twentieth-century avant-garde?
What major works produced innovation in 20th century literature?

• 1st topic: introduction to the modernist poetry in Italy
  • Books: Pay attention to the textbook by Friedrich and to the indicated poems.


• 2nd topic: deepening of the poems by Ungaretti e Montale; November weeks
  • Books: Pay attention to the indicated poems


• 3rd topic: the Italian modernist narrative; december weeks
  • Books: Pay attention to the textbooks by Debenedetti, and analysis of texts by Svevo, Tozzi, Pirandello