20709685 - MOVIMENTI E SCRITTORI NELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA DEL 900

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.
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Programme

Travelling, seeing, XXth Century and Beyond

Core Documentation

a-b) two among next texts (or combinations of texts):

Carlo Emilio Gadda, Verso la Certosa, Milano, Adelphi, 2013 + I viaggi la morte, Milano, Adelphi, 2023; or

Guido Piovene, Viaggio in Italia, Milano, Bompiani, 2017; or

Pier Paolo Pasolini, La lunga strada di sabbia, Roma, Contrasto, 2014 + Id., L’odore dell’India, Milano, Garzanti, 2015; oppure

Giorgio Manganelli, Esperimento con l’India, Milano, Adelphi, 1992 + Id., La favola pitagorica, Milano, Adelphi, 2005 + Id., L’isola pianeta, Milano, Adelphi, 2006; oppure

Goffredo Parise, Guerre politiche, Milano, Adelphi, 2007 + Id., L’eleganza è frigida, Milano, Adelphi, 2008 + Id., Lontano, Milano, Adelphi, 2015; oppure

Alberto Arbasino, America amore, Milano, Adelphi, 2011; oppure

Gianni Celati, Narratori delle pianure, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2018 + Id., Verso la foce, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2018 + Id., Avventure in Africa, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011; oppure

Vitaliano Trevisan, Tristissimi giardini, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2010 [or Id., Black Tulips, Torino, Einaudi Stile Libero 2022] + Antonella Anedda, Geografie, Milano, Garzanti, 2020 + Con gli occhi aperti, a cura di Andrea Cortellessa, Roma, Exòrma, 2016

c) Luigi Marfè, Oltre la «fine dei viaggi». I resoconti dell’altrove nella letteratura contemporanea, Firenze, Olschki 2009

d) to give a context in 20th and 21st century italian literary history:
Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, quarto volume: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012



Reference Bibliography

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Type of delivery of the course

Classes will be held both in-person (traditional mode) and distance learning

Attendance

Attendance is optional

Type of evaluation

The examination will consist of a written test on the topics covered in the course