The aim of the course is to analyze some major questions of contemporary Italian literature within the framework of major foreign literatures. The study will be carried out in a comparative perspective, essential for the literature of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, when the exchange between different cultures became more intense and the models and poetics elaborated abroad often had profound influence on Italian authors . The student will deepen a genre, a theme, a poetic, the story of the reception of an author or a cultural institution.