The course Literature, journalism and new media, L.M., aims to enrich the student's specialized training on contemporary Italian literature through the interrelationships with journalism, cinema and television that have profoundly changed the system of literary communication during the twentieth century. The educational perspective, open to the ongoing transformations of literary writing in relation to new communication strategies, aims to prepare the student for the potential of multiple career opportunities.
Curriculum
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Articolazione didattica: 36 hours; 6 CFU; I semester
Description: The aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between media and literature from the second half of the twentieth century until the end of the nineties. The course investigates the public role of women writers in Italy by reconstructing their participation in radio, television, newspapers, and periodicals between 1944 and 1994. The project asks how women writers negotiated visibility, authority, legitimacy, and cultural agency within a media system that transformed the relationship between literature, journalism, broadcasting, and public discourse. In this period there was the spread of new technologies that have revolutionized literary communication systems. The course will be structured in seminars and discussion-based lessons. The course requires attending students to deliver a written work, previously agreed with the Professor. This paper should be sent fifteen days before the oral exam.
Attending students have to study two critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed. The oral examination will be focused on the written work, on the works analyzed during the course and on the critical essays.
Students who do not attend have to study three critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed.
Erasmus students have to study one critical essay and two authors to be analyzed.
Programme
Title: Women Authors’ Voices and Engagement in Journalism and Mass Media SystemsArticolazione didattica: 36 hours; 6 CFU; I semester
Description: The aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between media and literature from the second half of the twentieth century until the end of the nineties. The course investigates the public role of women writers in Italy by reconstructing their participation in radio, television, newspapers, and periodicals between 1944 and 1994. The project asks how women writers negotiated visibility, authority, legitimacy, and cultural agency within a media system that transformed the relationship between literature, journalism, broadcasting, and public discourse. In this period there was the spread of new technologies that have revolutionized literary communication systems. The course will be structured in seminars and discussion-based lessons. The course requires attending students to deliver a written work, previously agreed with the Professor. This paper should be sent fifteen days before the oral exam.
Attending students have to study two critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed. The oral examination will be focused on the written work, on the works analyzed during the course and on the critical essays.
Students who do not attend have to study three critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed.
Erasmus students have to study one critical essay and two authors to be analyzed.
Core Documentation
Authors: Sibilla Aleramo, Natalia Ginzburg, Fausta Cialente, Renata Viganò, Ada Gobetti, Anna Maria Ortese, Paola Masino, Alba de Céspedes, Maria Bellonci, Gianna Manzini, Elsa Morante, Lalla Romano, Dacia Maraini, Oriana Fallaci.Reference Bibliography
Bibliography: D. Baroncini, Scrittrici e giornaliste di moda, Mondadori Bruno, 2018 C. Bertoni, Letteratura e giornalismo, Carocci; 2009 Protagoniste alle origini della Repubblica. Scrittrici, editrici, giornaliste e sceneggiatrici italiane, a cura di L. Di Nicola, Carocci, 2021 A.Fichera, L'Italia del «bello scrivere». Storie del giornalismo culturale dalla Terza pagina a oggi, Minerva Edizioni (Bologna), 2019 E. Gambaro, Diventare autrice. Aleramo Morante de Céspedes Ginzburg Zangrandi Sereni, Unicopoli, 2018 Il medium oggi. Da McLuhan all’intelligenza artificiale, a cura di P. Giovannetti e A. Miconi, Carocci, 2025 Letteratura e giornalismo. Vol. 5: Giornalisti o scrittori?, a cura di Daniela Marcheschi, Marsilio, 2024 C. Melani-M. Venturini, Ecce video. Tv e letteratura dagli anni Ottanta a oggi, Franco Cesati, 2018Attendance
Attendance to the course is not obligatory, but is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
Exam: oral. The oral examination will be focused on the written paper, on the works analyzed during the course and on the critical essays. teacher profile teaching materials
Articolazione didattica: 36 hours; 6 CFU; I semester
Description: The aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between media and literature from the second half of the twentieth century until the end of the nineties. The course investigates the public role of women writers in Italy by reconstructing their participation in radio, television, newspapers, and periodicals between 1944 and 1994. The project asks how women writers negotiated visibility, authority, legitimacy, and cultural agency within a media system that transformed the relationship between literature, journalism, broadcasting, and public discourse. In this period there was the spread of new technologies that have revolutionized literary communication systems. The course will be structured in seminars and discussion-based lessons. The course requires attending students to deliver a written work, previously agreed with the Professor. This paper should be sent fifteen days before the oral exam.
Attending students have to study two critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed. The oral examination will be focused on the written work, on the works analyzed during the course and on the critical essays.
Students who do not attend have to study three critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed.
Erasmus students have to study one critical essay and two authors to be analyzed.
Mutuazione: 20710313 LETTERATURA, GIORNALISMO E NUOVI MEDIA L.M. in Italianistica LM-14 VENTURINI MONICA
Programme
Title: Women Authors’ Voices and Engagement in Journalism and Mass Media SystemsArticolazione didattica: 36 hours; 6 CFU; I semester
Description: The aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between media and literature from the second half of the twentieth century until the end of the nineties. The course investigates the public role of women writers in Italy by reconstructing their participation in radio, television, newspapers, and periodicals between 1944 and 1994. The project asks how women writers negotiated visibility, authority, legitimacy, and cultural agency within a media system that transformed the relationship between literature, journalism, broadcasting, and public discourse. In this period there was the spread of new technologies that have revolutionized literary communication systems. The course will be structured in seminars and discussion-based lessons. The course requires attending students to deliver a written work, previously agreed with the Professor. This paper should be sent fifteen days before the oral exam.
Attending students have to study two critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed. The oral examination will be focused on the written work, on the works analyzed during the course and on the critical essays.
Students who do not attend have to study three critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed.
Erasmus students have to study one critical essay and two authors to be analyzed.
Core Documentation
Authors: Sibilla Aleramo, Natalia Ginzburg, Fausta Cialente, Renata Viganò, Ada Gobetti, Anna Maria Ortese, Paola Masino, Alba de Céspedes, Maria Bellonci, Gianna Manzini, Elsa Morante, Lalla Romano, Dacia Maraini, Oriana Fallaci.Reference Bibliography
Bibliography: D. Baroncini, Scrittrici e giornaliste di moda, Mondadori Bruno, 2018 C. Bertoni, Letteratura e giornalismo, Carocci; 2009 Protagoniste alle origini della Repubblica. Scrittrici, editrici, giornaliste e sceneggiatrici italiane, a cura di L. Di Nicola, Carocci, 2021 A.Fichera, L'Italia del «bello scrivere». Storie del giornalismo culturale dalla Terza pagina a oggi, Minerva Edizioni (Bologna), 2019 E. Gambaro, Diventare autrice. Aleramo Morante de Céspedes Ginzburg Zangrandi Sereni, Unicopoli, 2018 Il medium oggi. Da McLuhan all’intelligenza artificiale, a cura di P. Giovannetti e A. Miconi, Carocci, 2025 Letteratura e giornalismo. Vol. 5: Giornalisti o scrittori?, a cura di Daniela Marcheschi, Marsilio, 2024 C. Melani-M. Venturini, Ecce video. Tv e letteratura dagli anni Ottanta a oggi, Franco Cesati, 2018Attendance
Attendance to the course is not obligatory, but is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
Exam: oral. The oral examination will be focused on the written paper, on the works analyzed during the course and on the critical essays.