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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically The course readings collectively present a diachronic history of Italian approaches to the traditional genres of comedy, tragedy, melodrama and pastoral. The first half of the course focuses on the 16th through 19th centuries while the second half explores 20th century meta-theatre and subsequent postmodern experiments. Class discussion and analysis will focus on formal and thematic distinctions among the genres, the innovative contributions of each drama in the context of the development of Italian theatrical tradition, and, where appropriate, considerations on staging and other issues of representation. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ITAL 5 and 111 or 112.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring The primary objectives of this course are to acquaint students with Italian poetry as an art form and as an expression of a civilization and to develop students' abilities in critical reading and in essay writing. Poets are chosen from different periods of Italian literary history, and a thematic approach to the subject is privileged. Prepared discussions on assigned readings with vocabulary preparation and interpretation, oral reports on poems selected for in-class presentation. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ITAL 5 and 111 or 112. (Formerly Masterpieces of Italian Literature.)
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring The primary object is to develop each student's ability in the critical reading of outstanding authors from the beginning to the present. Readings are chosen according to each student's prior experience and interests. Rather than a chronological approach, with division into literary movements, the student chooses, upon advisement, one or more themes (e.g., the artist and society, literature of social protest, the role of women, the search for identity) which is pursued by reports to the whole class. A detailed personal record of reading progress is maintained to assure the systematic development of each student's facility in literary criticismPrerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ITAL 5 and 111 or 112.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring The primary object is to develop each student's ability in the critical reading of outstanding authors from the beginning to the present. Readings are chosen according to each student's prior experience and interests. Rather than a chronological approach, with division into literary movements, the student chooses, upon advisement, one or more themes (e.g., the artist and society, literature of social protest, the role of women, the search for identity) which is pursued by reports to the whole class. A detailed personal record of reading progress is maintained to assure the systematic development of each student's facility in literary criticismPrerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ITAL 5 and 111 or 112.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring The primary object is to develop each student's ability in the critical reading of outstanding authors from the beginning to the present. Readings are chosen according to each student's prior experience and interests. Rather than a chronological approach, with division into literary movements, the student chooses, upon advisement, one or more themes (e.g., the artist and society, literature of social protest, the role of women, the search for identity) which is pursued by reports to the whole class. A detailed personal record of reading progress is maintained to assure the systematic development of each student's facility in literary criticismPrerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ITAL 5 and 111 or 112.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Readings of representative works including both short stories and novels. Exploration of recurrent themes such as sisterhood, violence against women, misogyny, female desire, female agency, the language of emotion, subjectivity and the body. We analyze how the bildingsroman, the historical novel and the postmodern novel are impacted (some more, some less) by the gender of the author. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ITAL 5 and 111 or 112.
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0.00 Credits
Continuation of the elementary sequence. Expansion of existing knowledge of structures and functions of language within a communicative framework. Vocabulary enrichment to address conversation topics in the past, present, and future tenses. Continuing emphasis on small group activities and further development of cultural competency and reading and writing skills.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of various modes of self-expression in 20thcentury Italian prose fiction (autofictions, regional novel, bildungsroman). The texts, read in English, represent an overview of literature written by Italian women from the early 20th century to the present and include contributions from both peninsular and insular authors. In addition to the relevant literary and sociopolitical contexts of writing, the course explores themes such as the negotiation of the right to write, motherhood and authoring, representation of gender roles, female social transgression, rebellion, and self-awareness.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a year Transformations in the concepts of sin, love, and nature and their implications for the representation of gender in the period from 1250 to 1600. Students study such authors as Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, Jacopone da Todi, the stilnovisti, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Tasso.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically An examination of Dante's masterpiece as a summa of medieval learning. Close readings with emphasis on the intellectual, religious, political and scientific background of the medieval world. Dante's vision of the supernatural will be compared to and contrasted with its representations in contemporary literature and iconography. Particular attention will be given to the inferno and to a discussion of the concept of "love" in the Middle Ages. All works are read and discussed in Englis
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