ITALIAN 340 - European Literature and the Making of Italy

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Bard College

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It is no stretch to say that Italy owes its existence- both as an actual nation and "imagined community" (in Benedict Anderson's term)?o the enormous impact of its poets and writers on the drive for political unification that occurred in 1861, after centuries of fragmentation stretching back to the Caesars. This course addresses such themes as the emergence of Italy as the "world's university" and the "mother European art" in Byron, de Sta?l, Goethe, and Wordsworth; the influence of Dante on Romantic autobiography; and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman. Students explore the works of Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni- the leading authors of Romantic Italy.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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