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4.00 Credits
What are the connections between the Babelic quality of experimental language and the feeling of instability in the postmodern world? How do poetic techniques, like collage or pastiche, and the introduction of multilingual expressions suggest the effects of globalization? This course presents the works of experimental Italian authors, including Elio Pagliarani and Andrea Zanzotto, focusing on their capacity to express the meaning of contemporary society through the use of nonlinear communication. Textual analyses and a comparative approach are used to explore topics such as the connection between psyche, body, and language; the search for identity within tortured linguistic expression; and the metamorphoses of the self and the world. The course is conducted in Italian.
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4.00 Credits
What has Florence represented since its founding, by Caesar, as a military camp in the first cen- tury B.C.E.? How has the city figured (as a theme, idea, and actual political and cultural entity) for writers? How has the burden of Florence's profound medieval and Renaissance past affected later artists and writers? This interdisciplinary course addresses the art, architecture, and history of Florence, with an emphasis on the city's role in literary history. Students consider the city's persistence as a political and cultural center after its Renaissance heyday, its role as Italy's linguistic center, its designation as capital of the newly unified Italy (in 1865), and its role at the forefront of leftist resistance in the age of Berlusconi. The course is conducted in Italian and includes a weekly review with a tutor.
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4.00 Credits
Film and Electronic Arts This survey course, taught in Italian, examines the evolution of Italian cinema from its inception to the present day. Major films from the silent and Fascist eras up to the birth of neorealism and "New Comedy" are investigated.Featured directors include Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini, Bertolucci, Antonioni, Scola, Wertmüller, Pasolini, and Salvatores. Special attention is given to the political and cultural influences underlying film aesthetics and production. Readings are selected from film theory/ criticism, screenplays, interviews, and Italian historical and literary texts. While the course does not provide a formal review of grammar, advanced grammar points and questions of style are addressed. Prerequisite: one 200-level course in Italian or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to help students obtain a sense of fluency in their oral and written expression of Italian, through focused writing (expository and creative); strategic vocabulary building; and scheduled discussion, debate, and short presentations. The course incorporates a comprehensive review of grammar, offers a basic introduction to Italian prose stylistics (through examination of excerpts from fiction, current political commentary, humor, literary essays, philosophical texts, newspaper and magazine articles, children's literature, etc.), and introduces students to Italian cinema and its cultural impact. Students are required to enroll in a weekly laboratory session for multimedia work. Prerequisite: Italian 201 or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The debt of gratitude authors like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sydney, Pope, and numerous others owed to Italian literature is well known. But what was it about Italian poetry that gave it such outstanding authority? Much of the answer lies in early Italian poets' obsession with redefining "love" and distinguishing the array of nuanceswithin it. This course examines the various permutations of the concept of love from the medieval to the early modern age, exploring how various literary genres reflected beliefs about how and when one was to learn the lessons of love or become a victim to it. Authors include Lentini, Cavalcanti, Guinizelli, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Ficino, Ariosto, Bembo, Machiavelli, Aretino, Franco, Michelangelo, Stampa, Patrizi, Bruno, Marino, Pallavicino, and Casanova. The course is taught in Italian with critical readings in Italian and English.
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys modern Italian literature in light of the major aesthetic and historical developments that have shaped what the philosopher of history Giambattista Vico called the "sapientia Italorum" ("Italian wisdom"). Among thquestions students explore are: Did Italy have an Enlightenment? Did Italian Romanticism exist? Why did modern Italian artists have such political influence (Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giovanni Verga were all made senators; Mussolini himself was an aspiring novelist)? This course provides a comprehensive grammar review, significant work in Italian conversation and composition, and a mandatory weekly meeting with the tutor. Authors include Alfieri, Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, Calvino, Deledda, and others. All course work in Italian. Prerequisite: Italian 201 or the equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Medieval Studies The continuation of Italian 215, this course examines in greater depth topics such as the Greek influences on the specifically "Italian"achievements of Italian humanism (Pletho, Bessarion); the impact on and response from humanists abroad (Erasmus, Thomas More, Daniele Barbaro); the evolution of the "author"after the first 100 years of printing; the phenomenon of bibliophilia; the impact of Counter-Reformation reform on knowledge; the rise of scientific knowledge in Protestant culture; and the conflation of esotericism and science. Prerequisite: one successfully completed college-level course in classical philosophy, history, history of science, Renaissance literature, or art history. Taught in English.
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4.00 Credits
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 Credits
This two-semester sequence introduces the fundamentals of modern Japanese. Students systematically develop listening, speaking, writing, and reading abilities. Because fluency in Japanese requires sensitivity to the social setting in which one is speaking, the course also provides an introduction to fundamental aspects of daily life and culture in contemporary Japan.
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4.00 Credits
This course is intended for students who have completed Japanese 101 or have an equivalent background. Students continue to focus on the oral and written aspects of the language and, upon completion of the course, are qualified to enroll in a five-week summer immersion program in Kyoto, Japan. Financial aid is available for qualified students.
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