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MAGGITTI VINCENZO
(syllabus)
The course is focused on the Hollywood Novel, a subgenre of twentieth century American novel, including writers, such as Fitzgerald and West, who worked for cinema as screenplayers and later reworked their experience in works that are not biographical but metaphorically represent American life through Hollywood lenses. Themes will be discussed related to alienation and mass-production. Texts will allow a different discussion about literature and cinema shifting from adaptation to reshaping literary language in cinematic terms. A recent TV series and an older movie about the end of classical Hollywood will be shown and discussed during the extra academic classes.
Prof.. Fred L. Gardaphe Corsi di laurea magistrale SSD L-Lin/11
20710480 - American Fictions: Plots and Counterplots
2nd year MA Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation
(36 hours – 6 CFU; meeting twice a week – each class is 2 hours)
This course is focused on the way minority writers in the U.S.A. fashion their novels, stories and poetry in relation to what has been considered as traditonal and canonical U.S. American literature. Through the example of Italian American writers, students will become aware of the way minority cultures have impacted the definitions of U.S. American literature through realism, naturalism, modernism and postmodernism.
(reference books)
Novels
Christ in Concrete (Pietro di Donato, 1939)
Paper Fish (Tina DeRosa, 1980)
Short Fiction in From the Margin
“Nonna,” (Tony Ardizzone)
“Drowning,” (Mary Bucci Bush)
“Morra, Amore,” (Fred L. Gardaphe)
“The Last Godfather,” (Anthony Valerio)
“My Grandfather’s Suit,” (Lisa Ruffolo)
Poetry in From the Margin
M. Gillan
L. Ferlinghetti
D. di Prima
D. Gioseffi
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