ITALIAN LITERATURE AND DRAMA IN THE MODERN AGE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FLT044

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

ITALIAN LITERATURE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PASQUINI Luciana

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

Good knowledge of the history of Italian literature and the history of theater.

Objectives

The student, in accordance and coherence with the educational objectives of the Course
of the Laurea Magistrale, will have to acquire specific knowledge on critical literature, in its different positions, as well as congruous
skills in understanding and analyzing the proposed literary and dramaturgical texts.
Among the knowledge it is advisable that the student, at the end of the lessons,
show mastery in understanding the language and structure related to the dramaturgical text as well as the style and
of the techniques specifically related to the reference works and to the coeval thematically related texts; who is aware of the most relevant critical positions applied to the exegesis of the author's text and on the sources that
have contributed to its construction, as well as the "history of mentality "contextual to the historical period under analysis.
Among the skills it is desirable that the student consolidates an attitude autonomous in exegesis and in the judgment of the literary and dramaturgical text; that is oriented
therefore in the historical and critical panorama, coming to mature a personal attitude in the choice and consequently in the
critical reading of thematically related texts.
Furthermore, the autonomy of judgment must be adequately linked communication skills that allow the student to be persuasive,
both in oral presentation and in the production of a written essay: the latter constitutes in fact the specific tool for dissemination critical thinking at any level.
The exercise on the literary text represents the tool for refinement
of the greatest of the skills that the Master's Degree Course proposes to confer: the consolidation of argumentative skills, of the spirit
critical and independent judgment of the individual in an absolute sense, whose
acquisition makes the student of the Degree Course competitive
in the context of the different professional opportunities connected to it.

Contents

Discovering the world with "paper trips" between literature and theater in the nineteenth century.

Extended Syllabus

The course will focus on the analysis of particular aspects of the Italian theater of the nineteenth century and on the knowledge of the authors and texts that characterized the first half, as well as on the diffusion by the great actors of this repertoire in Italy, in Europe and above all in the new World. The Americas, in fact, constituted an incredibly receptive landing place for Italian dramaturgy and for its textuality in the original language. The Grand'attori configured themselves, in that temporal juncture, as authentic "passeurs" of the pen and the scene who had the merit of spreading romantic writings and the suggestive modalities of Italian acting first in the Old Continent and then in the United States, in America Latin and even in Oceania and Africa. They dared to stage Dante, Manzoni, Alfieri in Italian but also the labors of little-known contemporary playwrights such as Camma, tragedy in three acts by Giuseppe Montanelli, La creola della Luigiana, comedy in 5 acts by Alberto Nota, Amor ch'a nullo amato amar perdona, a one-act comedy by Luigi Suñer; and again Sister Teresa by Luigi Camoletti, Francesca da Rimini by Silvio Pellico, Pia de 'Tolomei by Carlo Marenco with a success
of overwhelming proportions.
The focus will then also go on texts that thematise Deamicis' travel literature and the centripetal and denunciatory literature of Renato Fucini.

Recommended Bibliography

-E. De Amicis, Ricordi di Londra, edited by L. Pasquini, Carabba, 2007.
-Luciana Pasquini, Il baule del Grand'attore. Letteratura e teatro nell'Italia del Risorgimento, Carabba, 2016.
-Luciana Pasquini, Adelaide Ristori in America e a Cuba, Carabba, 2015.
-Renato Fucini, Napoli ad occhio nudo. Lettere ad un amico, edited by T. Iermano (Osanna 1997 or Avagliano 2004 editions).
If necessary, during the course, critical support materials will be provided by the teacher.

NON-ATTENDING students must add:
E. De Amicis, Sull'Oceano, Introduction by F. Custodi, Preface by F. Portinari, Garzanti, 1996.

Teaching Methods

Lectures; workshops. Due to the relevance of the course within the MA programme, it may include seminars that will be led by renown international scholars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam. Students are expected to present the literary texts from the reading list with reference to the critical discussion offered during the lessons and seminars.
Marks range from 18 to 30. Top marks will be given to students who achieve all of the learning objectives of the course.
The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess the students’ skills and in particular their understanding of the issues discussed during the course, their knowledge of the bibliography in the reading list, the correct command of the specific language as well as of critical and methodological abilities. The grading scale ranges 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

ORGANISATION OF TEACHING:
-ECTS 6.
-34 hours of lessons, 4 hours of seminar, 4 hours of workshop.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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