MCAS IT LM 256 - Tradition & Translation in Italian Liter

Institution:

Arcadia University

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Description:

The course is designed as a complete chronological survey of Italian Literature from the earliest movements to those of the modern and contemporary periods. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the most important literary works and the cultural context in which they were produced, noting the different ways in which authors experience and write about th world as it changes around them and the ways a literary work may become representative of an entire age. The course is divided into two phases. After a general introduction on the origins of Italian Literature, the Provencal influence, the first poetic schools and the beginning prose tradition, we study the works of the major writers of the Italian Trecentro, with a selection of Dante's, Petrarch's and Boccaccio's works. Then the ages of Humanism and Renaissance are introduced and a slection of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is read and discussed. After a midterm review, we begin to introduce the modern age with special attention to prose fiction and historical novels. Students read selctions of Manzoni's The Betrothed: I promessisposi, Verga's The House by the Medlar Tree, Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard, Leonardo Sciascia's The American Uncles. Calvino's "postmodern" collected stories of Under the Jaguar Sun are then read entirely, to have a glance on one of the latest narrative experiments of Italian literature. AUC Designation: Cl

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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