Università Roma Tre

Course title: The novel and history in italian modern literature

Course description: The course aims to analyze the literary narrative in its relationship with history through the analysis of novels of our tradition from Manzoni to the contemporary age. The analysis of the texts that will be analyzed will require an in-depth study and reflection on the binomial history/fiction and on the debate around the question of the boundaries and specificities of literary and historiographical narration.

Bibliography:

1. Texts:

Students will have to choose, in agreement with the teacher, 2 novels of their choice, for the analysis of which critical material will be recommended during the lessons.
Below are just a few of the novels and critical studies that the course will use to frame the question. The seminar dimension will include an in-depth bibliography depending on the texts and the period chosen, to allow individual or group work.

- I. Nievo, Le Confessioni d’un italiano
- L. Pirandello, I vecchi e i giovani
- A. Banti, Noi credevamo
- Antonio Scurati, M. Il figlio del secolo, (2018)
- H. Janeczek, Le rondini di montecassino (2010)
- A. Pennacchi, Canale Mussolini (2010)
- Monica Galfrè, Il figlio terrorista (2022)


2. Critical studies:

- Roberta Colombi, La verità della finzione. Storia e romanzo da Manzoni a Nievo, Roma, Carocci, 2022
- Giuliana Benvenuti, Il romanzo neostorico. Storia, memoria, narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2012

Other critical studies (of which only the necessary parts will be indicated during the course):

. Il romanzo e la storia, a cura di N. Mineo,"Moderna", VIII, 1-2, 2006,
- Hanna Serkowska, Dopo il romanzo storico. La storia nella letteratura italiana del '900, Pesaro, Metauro, 2012
- Scritture di resistenza, Sguardi politici dalla narrativa italiana contemporanea, a cura di C. Boscolo e S. Jossa, Roma, Carocci, 2014
- E. Piga Bruni, La lotta e il negativo. Sul romanzo storico contemporaneo, Mimesis, 2018


Non-attending students must personally agree the exam program with the teacher
roberta.colombi@unirom3.it