The course aims to develop students' ability to read and understand both poetic and narrative literary texts in the context of the evolution of literature from the early twentieth century to the present day. The work is intended to be carried out both on a theoretical level (knowledge of the main movements and major exponents) and on a practical level (reading, understanding and analysis of literary texts). The student must mature and develop individual analysis and judgment skills, based on knowledge of the work and on the application of critical tools essential for a correct aesthetic approach to the text. We also propose the development of the expressive capacity and the mastery of a scientific technical lexicon suitable for the transmission and formulation of critical judgments, aimed at developing the ability to learn.