20708659 - LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA - LM

The course aims to deepen the authors , moments , genres and themes that characterize the Italian literature of our time , from the early twentieth century , taking into account also , as much as possible , the links with the other systems of literary expression , other arts , the literatures of other countries , as well as the history and geography of our country. Critical and analytical tools that will be used during the course will also help , the student , to hone their reading mode .
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Mutuazione: 20708659 LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA - LM in Informazione, editoria, giornalismo LM-19 CORTELLESSA ANDREA

Programme

Italian literature and photography

Core Documentation

a) Silvia Albertazzi, Letteratura e fotografia, Roma, Carocci, 2017

b) Fototesti. Letteratura e cultura visuale, a cura di Michele Cometa e Roberta Coglitore, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2016

c) plus one author, by choice, among:

Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia [1941], illustrated by the authore, edited by Maria Rizzarelli, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007

Gianni Celati, Il chiodo in testa [1974] e La bottega dei mimi [1977], in Id., Animazioni e incantamenti, a cura di Nunzia Palmieri, Roma, L’orma, 2017 + Verso la foce [1984], Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011

Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Divina Mimesis [1975], Milano, Mondadori, 2006

Nanni Balestrini, Blackout [1980], in Id., Poesie complete volume secondo, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2016

Lalla Romano, Nuovo romanzo di figure [1986], Torino, Einaudi, 1997

d) plus one author, by choice, among:

Tommaso Pincio, Lo spazio sfinito [2000], Roma, minimum fax, 2010

Sara Ventroni, Nel Gasometro, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2006 + Ead., La sommersione, Torino, Aragno, 2016

Walter Siti, Autopsia dell’ossessione, Milano, Mondadori, 2010

Antonella Anedda, La vita dei dettagli, Roma, Donzelli, 2009

Giorgio Falco e Sabrina Ragucci, Condominio Oltremare, Roma, L’orma, 2014

Giorgio Agamben, Autoritratto nello studio, Roma, nottetempo, 2017

Michele Mari, Leggenda privata, Torino, Einaudi, 2017

e) 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 lessons are divided into a cycle of 24 lectures, dedicated to authors of the second half of twentieth century, and the first years of new century, in their relation with photography.

Type of evaluation

written test