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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Covers the major Italian poets and poetic movements of the 20th century. Works by Ungaretti, Quasimodo, D'Annunzio, Luzi, Zanzotto, and the Lombard school are examined.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the thriving cultural life of the years from Italy's unification in 1870 to the rise of fascism in 1919. Explores the ascent of movements such as scapigliatura, naturalism, decadentism, and futurism. Social, political, and artistic ideas of the period are studied through the works of writers such as Verga, Pascoli, D'Annunzio, Marinetti, and Svevo.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to Luigi Pirandello's major plays as they relate to the foundation of contemporary theatre. Attention is also paid to grotesque and futurist drama. Works studied include Sei personaggio in cerca d'autore, Cosi è (se vi pare), and Enrico IV.
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4.00 Credits
Follows the development of Italian narrative from Manzoni and Verga to present-day trends in Italian prose. Emphasizes works of Tabucchi, Maraini, Pasolini, Morante, and Calvino.
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4.00 Credits
Follows the development of the Italian novel from the 1970s to the present day. Readings include contemporary classics from authors such as Morante, Calvino, Volponi, Tondelli, and Tabucchi, as well as novels published in the last few years.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the development of the Italian novel in the context of larger social, political, and cultural developments in Italian society. Particular attention is paid to the relations between narrative and shifts in national identity following the unification of Italy in 1870 and at important historical moments of the 20th century. Texts include works by Manzoni, Verga, D'Annunzio, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Vittorini, Moravia, and Volponi.
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4.00 Credits
Covers novels written by 20th-century Italian women writers. Attention is paid to concepts of gender, history, self, and the differing narrative strategies chosen to portray Italian society and women's places within it. Texts include works by Banti, Maraini, Corti, Morante, Ginzburg, Bellonci, and Aleramo.
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4.00 Credits
Examines strategies of self-representation in autobiographies, diaries, letters, and novels of selected authors. Readings include selections from Petrarch, Cellini, Goldoni, Casanova, Alfieri, Pellico, Sciascia, Aleramo, Viganò, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the relationship between Italian literature and post-World War II cinema, including the poetics and politics of the process of cinematic adaptation. Among the authors and directors examined are Lampedusa, Bassani, Sciascia, Visconti, Moravia, De Cespedes, DeSica, and Rosi.
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4.00 Credits
Examines a selection of Italian travel narratives within the context of contemporary postcolonial theory. Readings include several early modern accounts of voyages of discovery, as well as 19thand 20th-century travel narratives, both fictional and nonfictional. Topics to be considered include the relation between power and the production of knowledge as it manifests itself in such narratives; intertextuality and its ideological effects; and modes of representation of racial, cultural, historical, and sexual otherness.
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