University of Tuscia

DISUCOM


Prof. Carlo Serafini

Contemporary Italian Literature (L-FIL-LET-11)

LM 14 - 8 CFU

a.a. 2020-2021

Opera, society and communication in the literary twentieth century


The course analyzes the close relationship between the literary work and its reception during the twentieth century, a relationship also examined in comparison with the public interventions, in newspapers and magazines, of the authors concerned. The literary work itself appears in close correlation with the dynamics of commitment and critical reading of society, captured in the evolutionary process of the twentieth century and in the radical transformation of the means of communication. Public interventions and literary works, in poetry and prose, will be examined in parallel in order to establish a diagram of the century and its transformations.


Bibliography:

- CARLO SERAFINI (edited by), Word of the writer. Other studies on literature and journalism, Vol. III, Bulzoni, Rome 2020

Students will have to read in depth a literary work of their choice to be agreed with the teacher of one of the following authors: Federigo Tozzi, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Mario Soldati, Raoul Maria De Angelis, Giorgio Caproni, Elsa Morante, Franco Fortini, Vasco Pratolini, Lalla Romano, Manlio Cancogni, Giorgio Bassani, Angelo Maria Ripellino, Giovanni Arpino, Mario Rigoni Stern, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Dario Fo, Aldo Busi, Valerio Magrelli, Aldo Nove.

NON ATTENDING students will have to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental stages of the history of Italian literature of the twentieth century and read and deepen three literary works by three different authors from those indicated above.


Development of the course: First semester

CARLO SERAFINI (a cura di), Parola di scrittore. Altri studi su letteratura e giornalismo, Vol. III, Bulzoni, Roma 2020