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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will explore the direction Italian culture has taken from WWI to the present, bringing into focus notions of identity and nationhood. Its purpose is to consider both historical developments and the impact of change in the formation of the Italian democratic state. We shall examine the ways film artists have identified visual images with specific socio-political factors such as the fascist ideology, the Intellectual Left, the economic boom and emigration, terrorism, diversity and gender in the new millennium. Extensive practice of writing in a variety of genres.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is designed to give an overview of pivotal moments in Italian culture, such as the relationship between Church and Empire in the Middle Ages, Machiavelli's political theory during the Renaissance, and the rise and fall of Fascism in the 20th century. Through the examination of the most relevant intellectual, historic, and artistic movements and their main geographical venues, students will be able to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the development of Italian history and civilization.
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Intensive study of the "Inferno", with major attention paid to poetic elements such as structure, allegory, narrative technique, and relation to earlier literature, principally the Latin classics. Course conducted in Italian with highly interactive classes and preceptorials.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of ITA 303 and provides an occasion for close collaborative study of the final "cantiche" of the "Commedia". Half the semester will be devoted to the "Purgatorio", half to the "Paradiso". "Vita Nuova" will be read over Break.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
We will concentrate on the textual analysis of literary texts from the beginning of Italian literature to the present. An intensive grammatical, syntactical, and rhetorical analysis of every piece will be conducted through class discussion. Students will be asked to prepare oral presentations on the authors studied, and to write short papers on each text.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course's goal is to analyze the Modern movement in Italian fiction from 1900 to the present, particularly as it reflects various responses to social, political and cultural problems of the period. The following topics will be examined: Fascism in literature; literature of neo-realism and its relation with films, and neo-capitalism; the protest movement of the 1960s and '70s, and the new outlook for the '80s and the '90s.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course is intended to provide an introduction to Pirandello, concentrating on his evolution from short-story writer to dramatist. Special attention will be given to those cases in which Pirandello transformed one of his own stories into a play. We will also consider the ways in which the dramatist gives additional psychological depth to the characters that appear in his short stories. In addition, we will examine how Pirandello's plays are also miniature psychodramas that reenact the dramatist's own obsessions.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course, conducted in English, is a study of Fascist ideology through selected films from World War II to the present. Topics include: the concept of Fascist normality; Racial Laws; the role of women; and the opposition of the intellectual left. Films include: Bertolucci's "The Conformist", Fellini's "Amarcord", Rossellini's "Rome Open City", Rosi's "The Truce", and Benigni's "Life is Beautiful". The approach is interdisciplinary and combines the analysis of socio-historical themes with a cinematic reading of the films.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The purpose of this course will be to explore the dynamics of spectacle and performance (artistic, political, sexual, anthropological) in representative plays and films by major Italian authors of the 20th century. A close analysis of works by the Futurists, Eleonora Duse, Pirandello, Fo, De Filippo, Bertolucci, Fellini, and Visconti will enable us to address questions of a textual and critical nature related to contemporary issues. Special attention will be given to the representation of individual and societal tensions, the imaging of the female voice, and the relations between the political and artistic imagination.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to key themes and trends of the classical, medieval, and modern Jewish tradition through a close reading of some of its most influential literature. Our readings will include portions of the Bible, classical rabbinic literature, medieval Jewish poetry, philosophy, and mysticism, and modern Jewish writers from Moses Mendelssohn to Sholem Aleichem and from Abraham Isaac Kook to Abraham Joshua Heschel. We will pay special attention to the multiple approaches to tradition and change over the centuries and to the struggle over the meaning of Judaism in its engagement with an ever-changing world.
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