Università Roma Tre

Course title: The narrative tradition and the affirmation of the novel in literary history.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of Italian literary history from its origins to the 19th century, with particular attention to the narrative tradition in its various forms. Furthermore, in the second part of the course, a more careful reading of the nineteenth-century affirmation phase of the novel will be offered through the analysis of the issues raised by the genre and the solutions offered by Foscolo, Manzoni and Nievo.

Bibliography

1. Texts:

- U. Foscolo, Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014
- I. Nievo, Le Confessioni d’un italiano, edited by S. Romagnoli, Venezia Marsilio, 1998


2. Critical studies:

- R. Colombi, La verità della finzione, Storia e romanzo da Manzoni a Nievo, Roma, Carocci, 2022


3. Literary history

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018. Vol. 1
- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018, Vol. 2

Students NOT attending will add, in points 1, 2 and 3,

- A. Frare, Leggere i promessi Sposi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.