UCJCI029 Contemporary Italian Novel 1

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Táňa Pavlíková Alešová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Táňa Pavlíková Alešová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Italian (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
Course objectives
The course offers students an overview of the Italian prose devolopment in the 20th century. The course aims at providing a general knowledge, from an historical-philological point of view, of the most renowned authors and literary movements in Italian prose. Specific attention is given to thorough analysis of several chosen works, their context, linguistic and stilistic aspects. Students are supposed to read assigned excerpts in advance. The course completes the course cycle of Italian literature and it is also connected with the course of Italian literature in film 2.
Syllabus
  • 1.-2. La rivolta contro il canone vigente. Gli sviluppi moderni della letteratura
    Anticlassicista, Carlo Emilio Gadda Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
    3.-4. Gli interpreti della crisi dell`Epos. L`abbandono dell`intreccio tradizionale
    Italo Calvino Le citt? invisibili
    5.-6. La tradizione del romanzo picaresco - celliniano e di quello dannunziano, nei personaggi di Moravia, Alberto Moravia La noia
    7.-8. L`evoluzione del cronotopo favolistico attraverso l`exemplum e la novella.
    Aldo Palazzeschi Il codice Pe-re-l?
    9.-10. Il romanzo moderno come sintesi - evoluzione del romanzo storico, di formazione, e del romanzo verista, Pierpaolo Pasolini Ragazzi di vita
    11.-12. Le direttive del romanzo contemporaneo. Il romanzo giornalistico - memorialistico, il romanzo del disagio e della Non vita, il romanzo poliziesco e d`indagine del mistero Notizie sugli autori principali, esponenti delle suddette tipologie di romanzo (P. Levi, Parise...)
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
At least 80% attendance, home preparation of assigned texts.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 1993, Winter 1994, Winter 1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 1998, Winter 1999, Winter 2000, Winter 2001, Winter 2002, Winter 2003, Winter 2004, Winter 2005, Winter 2006, Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2011, Winter 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020.
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