The teaching contributes to the realization of the Learning Objectives of the Course of Study in Literature, aiming to provide methodological and hermeneutical tools related to literary modernity; .At the end of the course students will have to acquire sufficient skills to analyze the literary texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Communication skillsStudents should be able to present with appropriate terms and in a clear way what they have learned in relation to the themes and critical methodologies inherent to literary modernity in Italy.
Course Prerequisites
The course is aimed at students of the first year of the three-year course in Servizio Sociale and requires knowledge of the fundamentals of literary modernity.
Teaching Methods
Conventional. 63 hours of teacher up front lessons; there will also be seminars and lectures by scholars from Italian, European and American universities.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam with final marks.The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students' skills and in particular an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.
Texts
Federigo Tozzi, Con gli occhi chiusi (qualsiasi edizione) Elsa Morante, L’isola di Arturo, Torino, Einaudi
Contents
The course will examine the tradition of the family novel in twentieth-century Italy, with a focus on cases of dysfunctional families.
