MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT278N

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Contemporary Italian Literature

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GIALLORETO Andrea

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

162

Prerequisites:

The course is aimed at students of the second year of the three-year course in Literature and requires knowledge of the fundamentals of literary modernity.

Objectives

The teaching contributes to the realization of the Learning Objectives of the Course of Study in Literature, aiming to provide methodological and hermeneutical tools related to literary modernity; .
At the end of the course students will have to acquire sufficient skills to analyze the literary texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Communication skills
Students should be able to present with appropriate terms and in a clear way what they have learned in relation to the themes and critical methodologies inherent to literary modernity in Italy.

Contents

The course will examine the narrative work of Giuseppe Bonaviri (1924-2009) with a focus on the interaction of knowledge, cultures and literary genres within the framework of the humanistic-scientific epistemology adopted by the Mineo doctor-writer.

Extended Syllabus

Cento anni di letteratura italiana. 1910-2010, a cura di Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, Il sarto della strada lunga, Sellerio, 2006;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, La divina foresta, Palermo, Sellerio, 2008;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, Notti sull'altura, Palermo, Sellerio, 2009;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, L'enorme tempo, Palermo, Sellerio, 2010;

Andrea Gialloreto, Allegorici, utopisti e sperimentali. Bonaviri, Lombardi, Lunetta, Malerba,
Manganelli, Pomilio, Rosso, Spinella, Firenze, Franco Cesati Editore, 2022;

Franco Musarra, Scrittura della memoria. Memoria della scrittura. L'opera narrativa di Giuseppe Bonaviri, Firenze, Franco Cesati Editore, 1999.

Additional study materials will be provided by the professor during the lectures.

Recommended Bibliography

Cento anni di letteratura italiana. 1910-2010, a cura di Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, Il sarto della strada lunga, Sellerio, 2006;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, La divina foresta, Palermo, Sellerio, 2008;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, Notti sull'altura, Palermo, Sellerio, 2009;

Giuseppe Bonaviri, L'enorme tempo, Palermo, Sellerio, 2010;

Andrea Gialloreto, Allegorici, utopisti e sperimentali. Bonaviri, Lombardi, Lunetta, Malerba,
Manganelli, Pomilio, Rosso, Spinella, Firenze, Franco Cesati Editore, 2022;

Franco Musarra, Scrittura della memoria. Memoria della scrittura. L'opera narrativa di Giuseppe Bonaviri, Firenze, Franco Cesati Editore, 1999.

Additional study materials will be provided by the professor during the lectures.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Conventional. 63 hours of teacher up front lessons; there will also be seminars and lectures by scholars from Italian, European and American universities.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam with final marks.
The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students' skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Contacts/More Information

If you have any questions, please contact the teacher at andrea.gialloreto@unich.it.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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