20710561 - CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE - 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: 20710561 LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA - LM in Informazione, editoria, giornalismo LM-19 CORTELLESSA ANDREA

Programme

Travelling Giorgio Manganelli

Core Documentation

a) Giorgio Manganelli, Esperimento con l’India, Milano, Adelphi, 1992 + Id., La favola pitagorica, Milano, Adelphi, 2005 + Id., L’isola pianeta, Milano, Adelphi, 2006 + Viaggio in Africa, Adelphi 2018

b) Andrea Cortellessa, Il libro è altrove. Ventisei piccole monografie su Giorgio Manganelli, Luca Sossella 2020

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

Type of delivery of the course

The course includes lectures and discussions with students. If the emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemics continues, we'll follow our university's recommendation regarding teaching and evaluation. In particular, teaching will be online with the means suggested by the university and the oral written exams will be done by using Microsoft Teams

Type of evaluation

Written exam