Modern humanities

General objectives: the course is aimed at students in the second year of a three-year degree course, with intermediate knowledge of the Italian literary tradition, to whom it intends to provide a complete orientation of a historical-literary nature, and more advanced tools of analysis and understanding of some exemplary masterpieces. Specific educational objectives: 1. acquisition of advanced skills around key issues of Italian studies; 2. ability to understand and analyze the texts addressed; 3. ability to acquire, with critically aware judgement, the interpretative proposals of the addressed critical bibliography; 4. ability to communicate the information acquired both to specialists and to an audience of non-experts on the subject; 5. development of the ability to analyze texts and cultural movements, by comparing similar objects, also making use of the tools and knowledge acquired in the first year of the course.