ITAS 274 - Women in Love:Portraits of Desire in Italian Culture

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Wellesley College

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Parussa This course is dedicated to the representation of female desire in Italian culture. From Dante's Francesca da Rimini to Pasolini' s Medea , passing through renowned literary characters such as Goldoni ? Mirandolin a, Manzoni 's Gertru de, and Verd i's Viole tta, the course will ex-plore different and contrasting voices of female desire: unrequited and fulfilled, passionate and spiritual, maternal and destructive, domes-tic and transgressive. In particular, the varied and beautiful voices of women in love will become privileged viewpoints to understand the changes that occur in Italian culture in the conception of desire and other intimate emotions, as well as in the notion of gender and sexuali-ty. Students will read texts by men and women from a wide variety of literary genres and artistic forms including not only prose and poetrbut also theater, opera, and cinema. They will also read important theoretical essays on the conception of love in Western cultures by Barthes, de Rougemont, Gidden, and Nussbaum. Prerequisite: 202 or 201 with permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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