Texts: Letteratura italiana, II. Dal Settecento ai nostri giorni, Bologna, il Mulino, 2014 Alberto Asor Rosa, Letteratura italiana. La storia, i classici, l’identità nazionale, Roma, Carocci, 2014
Learning Objectives
The course strives to motivate students to take advantage of the university structure, the CdS, student orientation and career management tools, as well as to encourage students to benefit from a correct approach to the student-teacher relationship and promote responsible and respectful use of study resources provided by the School and CdS.
Prerequisites
An excellent knowledge of the Italian language is necessary, as are mastery of grammatical and syntactical structures of written Italian, good ability to read literary and critical texts, as well as reasonable competence in using dictionaries and commentaries. Finally, an important prerequisite is a thorough knowledge of Italian national history and literature.
Teaching Methods
The lectures will be addressed in the first part to the performance of the main preliminary issues relating to the literature of Eco and in the second part in a reading and a commentary, of the main examples of texts.
Further information
The course will take place in the time dimension of a single module , distributed in thirty-six hours.
Type of Assessment
Students will be tested in an end-of-course oral examination.
Course program
The lessons are designed to buid a picture of Umberto Eco. The teacher il going to illustrate a series of themes and books written by Eco. Not all the books analyzed in class will be charged to students, they have also "Scaffale aperto" in this bibliography, thet is essential for their studies, and they can chose freely some books.