ITALIAN LITERATURE: HISTORY AND TEXTS

Course objectives

Students will know the scientific literature on the topics dealt with and will be able to comment on it critically. They will be able to organise a work pertaining to Italian literary history on the basis of the acquired analytical concepts and tools. They will be able to integrate their new knowledge with the previous ones. They will also manage to communicate knowledge entering in discussion with specialists of literary history and with non-specialists. They will lastly be able to study self-managed or autonomous topics proposed during the course and will be encouraged to cultivate their own scientific interests independently.

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Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Eugenio Montale’s poetry Reading, commentary and cultural contextualisation of Eugenio Montale's main poetry collections
Prerequisites
basic knowledge of Italian literary history, language, metre and rhetoric
Books
Asor Rosa, A. Asor Rosa, Storia europea della letteratura italiana. III. La letteratura della Nazione, Einaudi G. Contini, Una lunga fedeltà. Scritti su Eugenio Montale, Einaudi Montale, Ossi di seppia, a cura di P. Cataldi e F. D’Amely, Mondadori Montale, Le occasioni, a cura di T. De Rogatis, Mondadori Montale, La bufera, a cura di I. Campeggiani e N. Scaffai, Mondadori Montale, Satura, a cura di R. Castellana, Mondadori
Frequency
in the classroom
Exam mode
assessment of linguistic and literary history skills: paraphrasing and commenting on texts by authors included in the programme (sources, metrical and rhetorical structures) and sound knowledge of the literary history textbook
Lesson mode
The great transformations of Italian and European poetry from Leopardi to Montale (3 lessons); English and American modernism and imagism (Eliot, Pound, Williams, Huidobro) (3 lessons), Montale's biography and reading of Montale's collections (18 lessons)
  • Lesson code1025247
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseLinguistics
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDL-FIL-LET/10
  • CFU6