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ITALIAN LITERATURE - WOMEN'S WRITING

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

ITALIAN LITERATURE

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FARNETTI Monica

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Availability to listen and to be introduced to the reading and interpretation of the text; an overview of the history of Italian and western literature.

AF code:

40009078

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Acquisition of linguistic, sylistic, rethorical and cultural instruments for the analysis of the text and its interpretation in its own hystorical context.

Contents

Inclusion of the author in the frame of female thought of XX century (among the main authorities Virginia Woolf, María Zambrano, Marguerite Yourcenar, Elsa Morante, Carla Lonzi, Hannah Arendt); the concept of authobiography; discussion of the relationships between life and writing, poetry and philosophy, literature and language, history, and memory; reading of the whole text.

Recommended Bibliography

- A.M. Ortese, Il porto di Toledo [1975], Adelphi 1998.
- V. Woolf, Una stanza tutta per sé, trad. it. Il Saggiatore 1980.
- M. Farnetti, Introduzione, in Liriche del Cinquecento, Iacobelli 2014, pp. 9-20.
- M. Farnetti, Toledo, in Il centro della cattedrale, Tre Lune 2002, pp. 89-101.

Teaching Methods

Frontal classes

Contacts/More Information

1) Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students; 2) Possible light integrations and amendments of the learning material.

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