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3.00 Credits
Designed to offer students with strong proficiency in Italian an opportunity to practice and refine their conversational skills through the study, rehearsal, and performance of theatrical scenes or an Italian comedy from the repertoire of such chief literary figures as Machiavelli, Goldoni, Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, and Dario Fo. Prerequisite: Ital 215 or placement by examination.
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3.00 Credits
A multidisciplinary course focusing on a significant aspect of Italian culture. The topic differs from semester to semester and may draw on art, film, history, gender studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, science. Prerequisite: previous or concurrent enrollment in Ital 307D. Section 01. The Italian Resistance. This course focuses on artistic reactions against the Fascist dictatorship in Italy. After discussing the historical and cultural context that gave rise to Fascism and the Partisan rebellion, we study what is conventionally called the neorealist "movement" (1930-1950), which developed spontaneously and without codified structures in opposition to the political and discursive controls imposed by Fascism, and which was characterized by certain literary motifs and innovations. We consider among other things the emphasis on small localized stories (storie) of individual resistance during the war through which authors sought to evoke a unified choral history (Storie) of rebellion; the uncommon heros, typically children, women, priests, and the poor, who are represented as the soul and the primary agents of political and moral renewal; and the unorthodox emphasis on the spoken, regional, and dialectal word. We conclude by considering more recent representations in literature and film of the Resistance. We read such novels as Italo Calvino's Il Sentiero Dei Nidi di Ragno (1947), Ignazio Silone's Pane e Vino (1937), Carlo Levi's Cristo Si e Fermato a Eboli (1945), and Elio Vittorini Conversazione in Sicilia (1941); and we discuss such films as Roberto Rossellini's Roma Citta Aperta. Course taught in Italian; readings in Italian. Section 02. Rome. This course explores a variety of literary texts and films in which Rome features as protagonist. A historic center of Western civilization and authority, of Christianity, of cultural resplendence and degeneration, the city of Rome is a palimpsest of history, myth, and symbolic meaning. We examine the myriad ways in which the capital city is conceived by modern Italian writers and film directors such as d'Annunzio, Moravia, Gadda, Pasolini, Fellini, De Sica, Scola, and Rossellini.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the social and political history of the Jews of Italy from the period of Italian unification through the end of World War II. We look through two different prisms: first, the constant of Jews' minority status in a Catholic country at a time when Church doctrine was hostile to them, and second, their changing status during significant moments in the brief history of the Italian monarchy. Under the latter rubric, we study the rehabilitation of the Jews under liberal political philosophies, their problematic relationship with Fascism, and finally the arrival of the Holocaust in Italy and efforts to defend Jews against Nazi genocide. We approach these topics wherever possible through primary texts, including essays, memoirs, and novels. Reading knowledge of Italian is not required. Readings in English; some readings in Italian for Italian majors. Discussion in English. Three five-page papers. Please note: the Ital 5221 cross-listing course is for graduate students only. Prerequisite for Italian majors: Ital 307D; no prerequisite for students in other majors.
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3.00 Credits
Introductory survey of Italian literature from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the late Renaissance. Analysis of the predominant genres: lyric, religious narrative, novella, treatise, chivalric epic. Previous or concurrent enrollment in Ital 307D or 308D recommended. Prerequisite: Ital 201D.
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3.00 Credits
Major literary works in Italy from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Movements covered include romanticism, verismo, futurism, neorealism, and postmodernism. Writers range from Goldoni and Leopardi to Pirandello and Calvino. Previous or concurrent enrollment in Ital 307D or 308D recommended. Prerequisite: Ital 201D.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we trace the evolution of Italian from its very earliest written manifestations to its increasing internationalization in the 20th and 21st centuries. We study the natural evolution of Italian up until the 16th century; its codification as a literary language during the 16th century; the debates over the institution of a national language that coincided with the unification of Italy in the 19th century; the recovery of dialects as literary languages in the 20th century; and the more recent incorporation of words and phrases originating outside of Italy. Along the way we come to understand the reasons why we study a particular form of Italian in school, and we consider the implications of these choices not only for our own learning but for Italian literature and its sense of nationhood.
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3.00 Credits
The evolution of Italian cinema from its origins to the present. Study of cinematic works and periods from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific areas of discussion include: cinema as a revolutionary aesthetic; mass culture vs. high art; early genre; divismo (stardom); the avant garde; the advent of film sound; the representation of politics and history; neorealism; postwar popular genre; modernism; metacinema; literary adaptation; postmodernism. Discussions are based on works by major Italian filmmakers such as Pastrone, Blasetti, Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini, Antonioni, Monicelli, Leone, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Nichetti, Moretti. Some emphasis on the relationship between literature and film. Course conducted in English: Italian majors read in Italian, others in English translation. Two to three hours of film-viewing plus three class hours a week. Taught in English. Prerequisite for Italian majors: Ital 307D or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A companion to Ital 332, this course focuses on a select topic in the history of Italian cinema, such as the work of a single director or a significant cinematic movement. Course conducted in English. Italian majors read in Italian, others in English translation. Prerequisite for Italian majors: Ital 307D. Prerequisite for nonmajors: Ital 332, Film 220, or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Undergraduate independent study at the 300 level. Prerequisite: competence in oral and written Italian, and permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGSS 419
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