The course aims to bring together students with authors, moments, genres and themes that characterize the italian literature of our time, from the early twentieth century. To cut and mode of interpretation that the texts wil be proposed during the course, the course provides students with the basic tools for a first contact with the works of contemporary literature.
At the end of the class, the student will be able to orient him/herself in the Italian Contemporary Literature.
At the end of the class, the student will be able to orient him/herself in the Italian Contemporary Literature.
teacher profile teaching materials
b) Giuseppe Carrara, Storie a vista. Retorica e poetiche del fototesto, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020
c) plus one author, by choice, among:
Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia [1941], illustrated by the author, edited by Maria Rizzarelli, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007
Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Divina Mimesis [1975], Milano, Mondadori, 2006
Nanni Balestrini, Blackout [1980], in Id., Le avventure della signorina Richmond e Blackout. Poesie complete volume secondo, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2016
Lalla Romano, Nuovo romanzo di figure [1986], Torino, Einaudi, 1997
Giorgio Falco and Sabrina Ragucci, Condominio Oltremare, Roma, L’orma, 2014 + Giorgio Falco, Flashover. Incendio a Venezia, with photographs by Sabrina Ragucci, Torino, Einaudi, 2020
Michele Mari, Leggenda privata, Torino, Einaudi, 2017
d) to give a context in the 20th and 21st century italian literary history:
Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. IV: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012; and/or La terra della prosa. Narratori italiani degli anni zero (1999-2014), edited by Andrea Cortellessa, Roma, L’orma, 2014
Programme
Italian literature and photographyCore Documentation
a) Silvia Albertazzi, Letteratura e fotografia, Roma, Carocci, 2017b) Giuseppe Carrara, Storie a vista. Retorica e poetiche del fototesto, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020
c) plus one author, by choice, among:
Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia [1941], illustrated by the author, edited by Maria Rizzarelli, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007
Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Divina Mimesis [1975], Milano, Mondadori, 2006
Nanni Balestrini, Blackout [1980], in Id., Le avventure della signorina Richmond e Blackout. Poesie complete volume secondo, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2016
Lalla Romano, Nuovo romanzo di figure [1986], Torino, Einaudi, 1997
Giorgio Falco and Sabrina Ragucci, Condominio Oltremare, Roma, L’orma, 2014 + Giorgio Falco, Flashover. Incendio a Venezia, with photographs by Sabrina Ragucci, Torino, Einaudi, 2020
Michele Mari, Leggenda privata, Torino, Einaudi, 2017
d) to give a context in the 20th and 21st century italian literary history:
Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. IV: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012; and/or La terra della prosa. Narratori italiani degli anni zero (1999-2014), edited by Andrea Cortellessa, Roma, L’orma, 2014
Type of delivery of the course
The course includes lectures and discussions with students.Type of evaluation
Written exam