Università Roma Tre

The course, reserved for students enrolled in the degree course in Languages ​​and the course of Historical Sciences, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the present on both lyrical and narrative sides. Each author will be treated in its historical-geographical context with examples of reading and textual analysis of major works, through the reference to cinema, television and new media. A part of the course will be dedicated to meetings and discussions with contemporary writers.

Costanza Melani-Monica Venturini, Ecce Video. Tv e letteratura dagli anni Ottanta ad oggi. Firenze, Cesati, 2018
Monica Venturini, L'Unità discontinua. Poesia e identità nazionale nel Novecento, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2016 (II parte)

For the student who attends the course it is required the reading and analysis of 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work chosen by the authors indicated in the list.

It is required for students who do not attend the course in addition to the exam texts it is required the full reading of 2 poetic collections and 2 narrative works of authors; for Erasmus students the full reading of 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of the authors indicated in the list.

For the students who do NOT attend the course, they have to send an email to the professor.

The course is based on authors, works and basic literary movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth century Italians. Starting from the formation of the new Italian state and reaching the sixties of the twentieth century, we will follow the development of our literary history on both the lyrical and narrative side.

Recommended book: Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura Italiana, Dall’Ottocento al Novecento e Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Mondadori Università.
Authors:
Nievo, Verga, Capuana, De Roberto, Fogazzaro, Deledda, 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.
Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Gozzano, Marinetti, Palazzeschi, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Tessa, Noventa, Marin, Quasimodo, Luzi, Caproni, Penna, Bertolucci, Sereni, Pavese, Pasolini.

Works to be completely read:
Narrative:
Ippolito Nievo, Le confessioni di un italiano
Gabriele d’Annunzio Il piacere o Il Fuoco
Federico De Roberto, I vicerè
Carlo Emilio Gadda, La cognizione del dolore o Il Pasticciaccio
Elsa Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio
Beppe Fenoglio, Il partigiano Johnny o Una questione privata
Italo Calvino, I nostri antenati (Il visconte dimezzato, Il barone rampante, Il cavaliere inesistente)
Poetry:
D’Annunzio: Alcyone
Montale, Ossi di seppia o Le occasioni o La bufera
Saba, Il Canzoniere: scelta di due raccolte all’interno del Canzoniere
Ungaretti: L’Allegria
Mario Luzi: una raccolta a scelta
Giorgio Caproni: una raccolta a scelta
Vittorio Sereni: una raccolta a scelta