Università Roma Tre

The course, starting from the beginning of 20th century, will follow the development of Italian literary history on both the lyrical and narrative side. Each author will be studied in its historical and geographical context, by some examples of reading and textual analysis of his major works, also through the constant reference to the contemporary context.

For students attending the course are required to read and analyze 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of their choice among the listed authors, also the exam book (see general bibliography).
For students who do not attend the course in addition to the examination texts, the full reading of 2 poetic collections and 2 narrative works of listed authors is required, also the exam book (see general bibliography); for Erasmus students the full reading of 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of listed authors (see general bibliography).

General Bibliography:
The history of Italian literature from 1900 to the 1970s is to be prepared on a manual of Italian literature (we recommend: G. Langella, La Modernità letteraria, Pearson, 2021). A good knowledge of the following authors, is required: Pirandello, Aleramo, Svevo, Tozzi, Gadda, Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Fenoglio, Calvino, Primo Levi, Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Ortese. It also requires a profile of the 20th century, as well as a good knowledge of the following authors: d’Annunzio, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Luzi, Caproni, Sereni, Pasolini, Rosselli.

Exam Book:
M. Venturini, L'Unità discontinua. Poesia e identità nazionale nel Novecento, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2016; or L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 1, edizione diretta da S. Costa, Scialle nero, La vita nuda, La rallegrata, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021.

During the course, students will be offered close readings of various lyrical texts, starting from Leopardi and arriving at our contemporary age. The aim of the course is to provide students with the first methodological tools for interpreting a work in verse of literary modernity.

Adopted texts:
- Paolo Giovannetti, La letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea. Guida allo studio, Carocci, Rome 2016 (or subsequent reprints).
- History of contemporary Italian literature, from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

Those who do not attend the lessons will also study the volume by Cesare Segre, La letteratura italiana del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004 (or subsequent reprints).