ITALIAN 57 - Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture

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Dartmouth College

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Description:

Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course will concentrate on literary works of the Baroque and the Enlightenment periods, and the cultural environment in which they were produced. In the first half of the course we will focus on the Baroque 'poetics of the marvelous' (Basile, Marino), Galileo ? nuova scien za and its influence on the literary imagination, and the birth of several new literary genres: t he commedia dell'a rte and the novel (Andreini, Brusoni). We will then examine the particularity of Ital ian illumini smo and how the 'cult of reason' was expressed in the literary realm, examining such phenomena as the reaction against the Baroque (Metastasio), neoclassicism, the emergence and literary representation of new socio-economic realities (Goldoni), and the theme of conflict between power and individual freedom (AlfiePrerequisite: Italian 10 or 11, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.dartmouth.edu

Phone Number:

(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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