Università Roma Tre

Starting from the formation of the new Italian State and arriving to the second half of the twentieth century, the course will follow the development of Italian literary history, with regard to both poetry and novel.Each of the considered authors will be studied in his hitorical and geographical context and some samples of his main works will be read and critically analysed during the lessons. Part of the course will be dedicated to the analysis of poetical works, especially by Carducci, D'annunzio and Pascoli.

Bibliography:
For the study of Italian literature from 1861 to the Seventies of the Nineteenth century student can use an handbook of Italian Literature (for example Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura Italiana, Dall’Ottocento al Novecento e Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Mondadori Università). As the novel is concerned, beside the general cultural and literary movements the students are required to have a deep knowledge of the following authors Carducci, Nievo, Verga, Capuana, De Roberto, Fogazzaro, Deledda, Serao, D’Annunzio, Pirandello, Tozzi, Svevo, Palazzeschi, Gadda, Moravia, Flaiano, Pavese, Vittorini, Fenoglio, Calvino, Pratolini, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Bassani, Cassola, Pasolini, Sciascia, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese. A good knowledge of the Twentieth century novel is required, with special regard of the following authors: Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Gozzano, Marinetti, Palazzeschi, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Luzi, Caproni, Penna, Bertolucci, Sereni, Pavese, Pasolini, Rosselli.

Critical Bibliography:
Exams texts:
-E. Giammattei, Introduzione in G. Carducci, Opere, tomo II (Ricciardi): la versione pdf dell’introduzione si può leggere sul sito www.treccani.it.
-S. Costa, D’Annunzio (Salerno, 2012): capitoli I, III, IV, VIII.
-M. Pazzaglia, Pascoli, (Salerno, 2002): capitoli I, V, VII, VIII.
-M. Venturini, L’unità discontinua. Poesia e identità nazionale nel Novecento (Morlacchi, 2016): Parte I
Recommended texts (for eventual more detailed study): F. Benozzo, Carducci (Salerno, 2015); G. Leonelli, Itinerari del fanciullino: studi pascoliani (Clueb, 1989), A. Andreoli, Introduzione in G. D’Annunzio, Versi d’amore e gloria.

Further indication on bibliography will be offerede during the lessons.

Students attending the classes are require to add the full reading and analysis of the poetry works of one of the following authors:

-G. Carducci, G. Pascoli e G. D’Annunzio.

Students who do not attend the classes are required to add to the exams texts above indicated the full reading of two poetry collections and two prose work of the mentioned authors; Erasmus students will add only the full reading of one poetic collection and one novel by one of the above listed authors.
Student who do not attend lessons are invited to contact the teacher for the exam program.

Description of the course: The course aims to study, also in a comparative perspective, authors, works and literary movements of the late Nineteenth century and of the early two Thousands. Starting from the social and cultural changes of the Sixties and arriving to these days, the student will follow the development of Italian literary history from both the poetic and narrative point of view. Every author will be studied in his historical and geographical context and through the reading ad analysis of his main works.

Possible propedeutics: The exam is propedeutic to CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Bibliography:
The exam program include the knowledge of the whole literary context of the late twentieth century and of the early Two Thousands. It also includes the reading of four of the followings works (and detailed knowledge of their authors), whose choose should be prearranged in agreement with the teacher:

Narrative works:
Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili o Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, o Palomar
Paolo Volponi, Memoriale, o Le mosche del capitale
Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa
Luigi Malerba, Salto mortale o Il pianeta azzurro
Alberto Arbasino, Fratelli d’Italia
Gianni Celati, Parlamenti buffi o Narratori delle pianure
Franco Cordelli, un romanzo a scelta
Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera
Antonio Tabucchi, un romanzo o una raccolta di racconti, a scelta
Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Altri libertini
Aldo Busi, Seminario sulla gioventù

Poetry:
Andrea Zanzotto: one collection
Giovanni Giudici: one collection
Amelia Rosselli: one collection
Jolanda Insana: one collection
Patrizia Cavalli: one collection
Maurizio Cucchi: one collection
Cesare Viviani: one collection
Vivian Lamarque: one collection
Milo De Angelis: one collection
Patrizia Valduga: one collection

Attendant students are required to read entirely 4 texts of the above mentioned (two novels and two poetic collections);
Students who do NOT attend classes are required to read entirely 6 texts of the above mentioned (three novels and three poetic collections); Erasmus students are required to read only 2 textes among the above mentioned (1 novel and 1 poetic collection).