The aim of the course is to provide master's students with the most appropriate analysis tools for reading works and issues relating to modern literature through the specific analysis of texts and the theoretical-critical study appropriate for a good interpretation
Curriculum
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From the post-war novel to contemporary narration
The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.
XX secolo
Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
XXI secolo
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021)
Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2022),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Paola Cereda, La figlia del ferro (2022)
Nicoletta Verna, I giorni di vetro (2024)
Silvia Cavalieri, l’argine delle erbarie (2024)
Bibliografia critica:
- I. Calvino, La letteratura italiana della Resistenza, (1949) in Id., Saggi, I, Mondadori,1999, pp. 1492-1500.
- G. Pedullà, Una lieve colomba, in Racconti della Resistenza, a cura di G. Pedullà, Einaudi 2005, pp. V-XLIII.
- A. Baldacci, Romanzi della resistenza, in Il romanzo in Italia III, Carocci, 2018, pp. 349-360.
- G. Benvenuti, Scritture della storia: storiografia e letteratura, in Ead., Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Carocci, 2012, pp. 7-25.
- M. P. De Paulis, Traumi, tracce e postmemoria: la scrittura dell’estremo negli anni Zero, in Senza traumi? Le ferite della storia e del presente nella creazione letteraria e artistica italiana del nuovo millennio, Firenze, Cesati, 2021, pp. 23-51.
- Guerra Resistenza Liberazione. Lo sguardo delle donne dal dopoguerra ad oggi, cura di R. Colombi e D. De Liso, Napoli, Loffredo, 2025.
During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Programme
Title: Fascism, Resistance and Liberation.From the post-war novel to contemporary narration
The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.
Core Documentation
Novels of your choice, at least one for each group:XX secolo
Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
XXI secolo
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021)
Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2022),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Paola Cereda, La figlia del ferro (2022)
Nicoletta Verna, I giorni di vetro (2024)
Silvia Cavalieri, l’argine delle erbarie (2024)
Bibliografia critica:
- I. Calvino, La letteratura italiana della Resistenza, (1949) in Id., Saggi, I, Mondadori,1999, pp. 1492-1500.
- G. Pedullà, Una lieve colomba, in Racconti della Resistenza, a cura di G. Pedullà, Einaudi 2005, pp. V-XLIII.
- A. Baldacci, Romanzi della resistenza, in Il romanzo in Italia III, Carocci, 2018, pp. 349-360.
- G. Benvenuti, Scritture della storia: storiografia e letteratura, in Ead., Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Carocci, 2012, pp. 7-25.
- M. P. De Paulis, Traumi, tracce e postmemoria: la scrittura dell’estremo negli anni Zero, in Senza traumi? Le ferite della storia e del presente nella creazione letteraria e artistica italiana del nuovo millennio, Firenze, Cesati, 2021, pp. 23-51.
- Guerra Resistenza Liberazione. Lo sguardo delle donne dal dopoguerra ad oggi, cura di R. Colombi e D. De Liso, Napoli, Loffredo, 2025.
During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Type of delivery of the course
the indicated bibliography constitutes a wide proposal of readings from which the attending students, in agreement with the teacher, will have to choose at least one novel for each group (between those of the 20th and 21st centuries). The course includes "exercises", also in groups, in which each student will report on one of the chosen texts.Attendance
attendance is strongly suggested. Alternatively, contact the teacher for a different program.Type of evaluation
in addition to the final evaluation interview, students will be offered seminar insights, individual or group, to be presented in class to the other students. teacher profile teaching materials
From the post-war novel to contemporary narration
The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.
XX secolo
Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
XXI secolo
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021)
Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2022),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Paola Cereda, La figlia del ferro (2022)
Nicoletta Verna, I giorni di vetro (2024)
Silvia Cavalieri, l’argine delle erbarie (2024)
Bibliografia critica:
- I. Calvino, La letteratura italiana della Resistenza, (1949) in Id., Saggi, I, Mondadori,1999, pp. 1492-1500.
- G. Pedullà, Una lieve colomba, in Racconti della Resistenza, a cura di G. Pedullà, Einaudi 2005, pp. V-XLIII.
- A. Baldacci, Romanzi della resistenza, in Il romanzo in Italia III, Carocci, 2018, pp. 349-360.
- G. Benvenuti, Scritture della storia: storiografia e letteratura, in Ead., Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Carocci, 2012, pp. 7-25.
- M. P. De Paulis, Traumi, tracce e postmemoria: la scrittura dell’estremo negli anni Zero, in Senza traumi? Le ferite della storia e del presente nella creazione letteraria e artistica italiana del nuovo millennio, Firenze, Cesati, 2021, pp. 23-51.
- Guerra Resistenza Liberazione. Lo sguardo delle donne dal dopoguerra ad oggi, cura di R. Colombi e D. De Liso, Napoli, Loffredo, 2025.
During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Mutuazione: 20710145 LETTERATURA ITALIANA MODERNA L.M. in Italianistica LM-14 COLOMBI ROBERTA
Programme
Title: Fascism, Resistance and Liberation.From the post-war novel to contemporary narration
The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.
Core Documentation
Novels of your choice, at least one for each group:XX secolo
Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
XXI secolo
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021)
Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2022),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Paola Cereda, La figlia del ferro (2022)
Nicoletta Verna, I giorni di vetro (2024)
Silvia Cavalieri, l’argine delle erbarie (2024)
Bibliografia critica:
- I. Calvino, La letteratura italiana della Resistenza, (1949) in Id., Saggi, I, Mondadori,1999, pp. 1492-1500.
- G. Pedullà, Una lieve colomba, in Racconti della Resistenza, a cura di G. Pedullà, Einaudi 2005, pp. V-XLIII.
- A. Baldacci, Romanzi della resistenza, in Il romanzo in Italia III, Carocci, 2018, pp. 349-360.
- G. Benvenuti, Scritture della storia: storiografia e letteratura, in Ead., Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Carocci, 2012, pp. 7-25.
- M. P. De Paulis, Traumi, tracce e postmemoria: la scrittura dell’estremo negli anni Zero, in Senza traumi? Le ferite della storia e del presente nella creazione letteraria e artistica italiana del nuovo millennio, Firenze, Cesati, 2021, pp. 23-51.
- Guerra Resistenza Liberazione. Lo sguardo delle donne dal dopoguerra ad oggi, cura di R. Colombi e D. De Liso, Napoli, Loffredo, 2025.
During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Type of delivery of the course
the indicated bibliography constitutes a wide proposal of readings from which the attending students, in agreement with the teacher, will have to choose at least one novel for each group (between those of the 20th and 21st centuries). The course includes "exercises", also in groups, in which each student will report on one of the chosen texts.Attendance
attendance is strongly suggested. Alternatively, contact the teacher for a different program.Type of evaluation
in addition to the final evaluation interview, students will be offered seminar insights, individual or group, to be presented in class to the other students. teacher profile teaching materials
From the post-war novel to contemporary narration
The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.
XX secolo
Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
XXI secolo
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021)
Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2022),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Paola Cereda, La figlia del ferro (2022)
Nicoletta Verna, I giorni di vetro (2024)
Silvia Cavalieri, l’argine delle erbarie (2024)
Bibliografia critica:
- I. Calvino, La letteratura italiana della Resistenza, (1949) in Id., Saggi, I, Mondadori,1999, pp. 1492-1500.
- G. Pedullà, Una lieve colomba, in Racconti della Resistenza, a cura di G. Pedullà, Einaudi 2005, pp. V-XLIII.
- A. Baldacci, Romanzi della resistenza, in Il romanzo in Italia III, Carocci, 2018, pp. 349-360.
- G. Benvenuti, Scritture della storia: storiografia e letteratura, in Ead., Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Carocci, 2012, pp. 7-25.
- M. P. De Paulis, Traumi, tracce e postmemoria: la scrittura dell’estremo negli anni Zero, in Senza traumi? Le ferite della storia e del presente nella creazione letteraria e artistica italiana del nuovo millennio, Firenze, Cesati, 2021, pp. 23-51.
- Guerra Resistenza Liberazione. Lo sguardo delle donne dal dopoguerra ad oggi, cura di R. Colombi e D. De Liso, Napoli, Loffredo, 2025.
During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Programme
Title: Fascism, Resistance and Liberation.From the post-war novel to contemporary narration
The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.
Core Documentation
Novels of your choice, at least one for each group:XX secolo
Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
XXI secolo
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021)
Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2022),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Paola Cereda, La figlia del ferro (2022)
Nicoletta Verna, I giorni di vetro (2024)
Silvia Cavalieri, l’argine delle erbarie (2024)
Bibliografia critica:
- I. Calvino, La letteratura italiana della Resistenza, (1949) in Id., Saggi, I, Mondadori,1999, pp. 1492-1500.
- G. Pedullà, Una lieve colomba, in Racconti della Resistenza, a cura di G. Pedullà, Einaudi 2005, pp. V-XLIII.
- A. Baldacci, Romanzi della resistenza, in Il romanzo in Italia III, Carocci, 2018, pp. 349-360.
- G. Benvenuti, Scritture della storia: storiografia e letteratura, in Ead., Il romanzo neostorico italiano, Carocci, 2012, pp. 7-25.
- M. P. De Paulis, Traumi, tracce e postmemoria: la scrittura dell’estremo negli anni Zero, in Senza traumi? Le ferite della storia e del presente nella creazione letteraria e artistica italiana del nuovo millennio, Firenze, Cesati, 2021, pp. 23-51.
- Guerra Resistenza Liberazione. Lo sguardo delle donne dal dopoguerra ad oggi, cura di R. Colombi e D. De Liso, Napoli, Loffredo, 2025.
During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Type of delivery of the course
the indicated bibliography constitutes a wide proposal of readings from which the attending students, in agreement with the teacher, will have to choose at least one novel for each group (between those of the 20th and 21st centuries). The course includes "exercises", also in groups, in which each student will report on one of the chosen texts.Attendance
attendance is strongly suggested. Alternatively, contact the teacher for a different program.Type of evaluation
in addition to the final evaluation interview, students will be offered seminar insights, individual or group, to be presented in class to the other students.