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CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE FOR PRIMARY AND CHILDHOOD SCHOOL WITH WORKSHOP
Module CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE FOR PRIMARY AND CHILDHOOD SCHOOL

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: CARMELO TRAMONTANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

Know the general lines of the history of contemporary Italian literature through the study of the most representative texts and authors. Understand, analyze and interpret complex texts (narrative, poetic and argumentative). Know how to implement the knowledge acquired in order to orient oneself in the literary context of reference, among the authors, texts and main issues. Be able to adapt one's professional skills relating to contemporary Italian literature to what is provided for by the current "Indicazioni nazionali per il curricolo della scuola dell’infanzia e del primo ciclo d’istruzione"

Course Structure

lessons and laboratory

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the outlines of Italian literary history from its origins to the nineteenth century and of the essential historical lines of the twentieth century. Adequate competence in the understanding and critical reading of literary texts.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance at lectures is optional, but strongly recommended. Attendance at laboratory hours is mandatory.

Detailed Course Content

The course is divided into four modules. The study of the authors will be conducted through the analysis of the texts that allow a direct comparison with their poetics, as well as through the knowledge of the main critical contributions relating to the works examined. A specific in-depth module will be dedicated to short fiction, fairy tales, fables, novellas and stories.

Textbook Information

Handbook:

G. Langella, La modernità letteraria. Manuale di letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Pearson 2021,pp. 615 (testo di riferimento per i moduli A, B, C).

study module A) (prof. C. Tramontana) Keywords of modern italian literature (3 CFU)

Alessandro Manzoni, Giacomo Leopardi, Giovanni Verga.

textbooks:

A. Manzoni, I promessi sposi,  (Nigro, Milano, Mondadori, 2006 or De Cristofaro, Milano, Bur, 2014).

G. Leopardi, I Canti (a selection of ten poems)

G. Verga, Vita dei campi and Rusticane (a selection of four tales)

B) (Prof. G. Palazzolo) Bildung in the first decades of 20th century: poems and novels (3 CFU) 

Giovanni Pascoli, Luigi Pirandello, Guido Gozzano, Umberto Saba, Italo Svevo, Cesare Pavese, GiuseppeUngaretti, Eugenio Montale.

Textbooks:

the study will be accompanied by an anthology of texts that will be provided in class and made available on Studium. The following must be read in full:

L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal, Mondadori.

C. Pavese, La luna e i falò, Mondadori.

C) (Prof. G. Palazzolo) Bildung in middle and late 20th century: poems and novels (3 CFU)

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Vittorio Sereni, Giorgio Caproni.

Textbooks:

the study will be accompanied by an anthology of texts that will be provided in class and made available on Studium. The following must be read in full:

I. Calvino, Il barone rampante, Mondadori;

I. Calvino, La giornata di uno scrutatore, Mondadori.

D) (Prof. C. Tramonana) The narrative short forms:  (3 CFU + 1 CFU laboratorio)

Txtbooks:

The study will be accompanied by an anthology of texts that will be provided in class and made available on Studium. The anthology will include fairy tales, fables and short stories by the following authors: Carlo Collodi, Luigi Capuana, Guido Gozzano, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Italo Calvino, Dino Buzzati, Elsa Morante, Gianni Rodari.

The reading will be accompanied by the following essays:

V. Ja. Propp, Morfologia della fiaba, Torino, Einaudi, 1966.

Le forme brevi della narrativa, edited by E. Menetti, Carocci 2019, capp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9.

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Keywords of italian modern literatureMod A
2Bildung in first 20th century decadesLangella, Mod B
3Bildung in middle and late 20th centuryMod C
4The narrative short forms with workshopMod D

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam evaluation will take into account the mastery of the contents and skills acquired, the linguistic accuracy and lexical propriety, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate.