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  • ITAS 263: Dante

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Jacoff The course offers students an introduction to Dante and his culture. The centrality and encyclopedic nature of Dante's Divine Comedy make it a paradigmatic work for students of the Middle Ages. Since Dante has profoundly influenced several writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, knowledge of the Comedy illuminates modern literature as well. This course presumes no special background and attempts to create a context in which Dante's poetry can be carefully explored . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 271: The Construction of Italy as a Nation

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ward The course aims, first, to give students who wish to continue their study of Italian the chance to practice and refine their skills, and second, to introduce students to one of the major themes of Italian culture, namely, the role played by Italian intellectuals in the construction of Italy as a nation. We will read how Dante, Petrarch, and Machiavelli imagined Italy as a nation before it came into existence in 1860; how the nation came to be unified; and how the experience of unification has come to represent a controversial point of reference for twentieth-century Italy. Other figures to be studied will include Bembo, Castiglione, Foscolo, Gramsci, Tomasi di Lampedusa, D'Annunzio, Visconti, Levi, Blasetti, and Rossellini. Prerequisite: 202 or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 272: Small Books,Big Ideas.A Journey Through Italian Identities

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Parussa NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Unlike other European literatures, contemporary Italian literature lacks a major work of fiction representing the nation's cultural identity. Rather, Italian literature boasts the small book, brief unclassifiable narratives that express the variety and complexity of Italian culture. Realistic novels or philosophical short stories, memoirs or literary essays, these works are a fine balance be-tween a number of literary genres and, as such, are a good entranceway into the multifaceted and contradictory identity of Italy as a na-tion. The course will combine a survey of contemporary Italian literature with a theoretical analysis of how Italian identity has been represented in works by Moravia, Calvino, Ortese, and others. Prerequisite: 201 as a prerequisite and 202 or 203 as a corequisite or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 274: Women in Love:Portraits of Desire in Italian Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    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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  • ITAS 310: Fascism and Resistance in Italy

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ward This course examines the two fundamental political and cultural experiences of twentieth-century Italy: the 20-year fascist regime and the resistance to it. We will study the origins of fascism in Italy's participation in World War I and its colonial ambitions, and then follow the development of fascism over the two decades of its existence and ask to what extent it received the consensus of the Italian people. We will go on to examine the various ways in which Italians resisted fascism and the role the ideals that animated antifascist thinking had in the postwar period. Authors to be studied include: Marinetti, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, Croce, Gobetti, Rosselli, Bassani, Ginzburg, Carlo and Primo Levi, and Silone . Prerequisite: 211, 271, 272, or 273, or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 311: Theatre,Politics,and the Arts in Renaissance Italy

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Parussa NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The flourishing Italian theatre in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is an extraordinary and unmatched phe-nomenon in the history of Italian culture. In Italian courts and city squares, theatre became the center of a dynamic relationship between power and culture. Under the aegis of princes and popes, artists of all kinds worked for the stage to celebrate and criticize the same power that both fostered and limited their intellectual freedom. The stage became a mirror in which Renaissance Italy, while attempting to admire its beauty, came face to face with its distorted image. The course will include readings of major plays by Bibiena, Machiavelli, and Ariosto. Attention will also be given to the paintings, drawings, and sketches used in the staging of these plays. Prerequisite: 211, 271, 272, 273, or 274, or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 312: Rinascimento e Rinascimenti:Cultural Identities in Fifteenth-and Sixteenth-Century Italy

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Parussa The Renaissance witnessed deep cultural transformations that have influenced contemporary ways of thinking. Cultural notions of class, gender, and religion find their roots in the cultural debate that animated Italian courts during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Exploring how these notions have been both shaped and challenged, the course will suggest that it is more appropriate to think of the Renaissance as a plural rather than a single entity. In particular, attention will be given to themes such as the donna angelicata and the poet, the corte-giano and the peasant, the principe and the artist. The course will give students a solid introduction to the literature of the period and pro-vide them with a theoretical framework for a thorough discussion of the material at hand. Prerequisite: 211, 271, 272, [273], or 274, or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 314: The Other Half:History and Culture of the Italian South

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ward NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course aims to introduce advanced level students to the rich and varied cultural and historical landscape of the Italian South, the mezzogiorno. Taking as its starting point the medieval court of Frederick II and the deep-seated repercussions its influence had on Italian cultural life, the course goes on to examine the works of southern thinkers and writers like Bruno, Campanella, and Vico, as well as the Neapolitan Enlightenment and the Southern question. In addition, we will examine twentieth-century writers like Carlo Levi, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Verga, Sciascia and Consolo, who were either born in southern Italy or have written about it. Prerequisite: 211, 271, 272, or ]273], or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 320: The Landscape of Italian Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Parussa NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The course is dedicated to the representation and exploration of landscape in the Italian poetic tradition. By studying how the varied and beautiful Italian landscape found expression in the literary works of major poets, students will be exposed to a rich body of work and the tradition it both follows and renews. In particular, the course will focus on a series of specific themes, giving spe-cial attention to language and style. These will include: the opposition between rural and urban landscapes; the tension between dialects and the national language; the complex dynamics of tradition and innovation. Through initial exposure to selected classical poets, including Dante and Petrarch, students will gain in-depth knowledge of the main formal structures of Italian poetry, from the classical sonnet, going on to free verse. In addition, we will read poems by the Italian greats of the twentieth century, namely Ungaretti, Saba and Montale, as well as works by contemporary poets, such as Caproni, Sereni and Valduga. Prerequisite: 211, 271, 272, [273], or 274, or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ITAS 349: The Function of Narrative

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ward NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Beginning with Boccaccio and going on to Manzoni and Verga, the course introduces students to the major figures of the Italian narrative tradition. We then go on to study twentieth-century narrative texts, all the time seeking answers to the ques-tion of why narrative is such a fundamental human need. Why, for example, do we narrate our experience of life and the sense we have of ourselves, even in the form of diaries Do the stories we tell faithfully reflect reality or do they create it The course concludes with a ref-lection on narrative technique in cinema illustrated by the films of Antonioni. Other authors to be studied may include Faa Gonzaga, Calvi-no, Ceresa, Rasy, Pasolini, Celati, and Benni. Prerequisite: 211, 271, 272, or [273], or permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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