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Teacher
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SERAFINI Carlo
(syllabus)
The course aims to provide students with an overview of the main authors and literary movements of Italian poetry and fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries. The following will be addressed in detail: the avant-garde movements, the birth of the modern novel, the forms of realism, war literature, the fantastic-surrealist trend, neorealism, the literature of the economic boom and well-being, the neo-avant-garde, the Group 63 , the forms of postmodernism, the crisis of the novel in the Noughties, contemporary literature and the relationship with editorial policies.
Bibliography:
Students will have to demonstrate knowledge of the history of twentieth-century literature, to be prepared on FLORIANA CALITTI (ed.), The life of texts. (vol.3.2. Path of twentieth century poetry + Path of twentieth century narrative) Zanichelli, Bologna 2015. In the manual, students will have to study the chapters relating to:
POETRY: Historical profile of the twentieth century, Path of twentieth century poetry, Futurism, Palazzeschi, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Penna, Bertolucci, Caproni, Sereni, Gruppo 63, Rosselli, Merini, Magrelli.
NARRATIVE: Path of the prose of the twentieth century, The European novel, Svevo, Pirandello, Tozzi, Calvino, Alvaro, Pasolini, Gadda, Palazzeschi, Moravia, Landolfi, Buzzati, Pavese, Vittorini, P.Levi, Morante, Fenoglio, Bassani, Sciascia, Bianciardi, Tondelli, Volponi, Eco.
Students will have to read three novels among the following:
- Italo Svevo, Zeno's conscience
- Emilio Lussu, A year on the plateau
- Italo Calvino, The path of the spider's nests
- Alberto Moravia, one of Gli indifferenti, Agostino, Boredom
- Cesare Pavese, one of your countries, The moon and the bonfires
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, one Ragazzi di vita, A violent life
- Elsa Morante, Arturo's island
- Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna
- Francesco Pecoraro, Life in times of peace
- Eraldo Affinati, The gospel of the angels
- Kristine Maria Rapino, The figs of March
- Dario Ferrari, Recreation is over
(reference books)
FLORIANA CALITTI (ed.), The life of texts. (vol.3.2. Path of twentieth century poetry + Path of twentieth century narrative) Zanichelli, Bologna 2015.
Students will have to read three novels among the following:
- Italo Svevo, Zeno's conscience
- Emilio Lussu, A year on the plateau
- Italo Calvino, The path of the spider's nests
- Alberto Moravia, one of Gli indifferenti, Agostino, Boredom
- Cesare Pavese, one of your countries, The moon and the bonfires
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, one Ragazzi di vita, A violent life
- Elsa Morante, Arturo's island
- Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna
- Francesco Pecoraro, Life in times of peace
- Eraldo Affinati, The gospel of the angels
- Kristine Maria Rapino, The figs of March
- Dario Ferrari, Recreation is over
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