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ITALIAN LITERATURE

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in INTERCULTURAL AND INTERLINGUISTIC MEDIATION
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2019/2020
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Basic compulsory subjects
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
6
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
36
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (36 hours)
Requirements: 

Italian speaking and writing level C1/C2.

Final Examination: 
Orale

Written examinations.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

1) Skilled competence in professional writing and text analysis
2) Communicative skills (description, information, critic argumentation)
3) Skilled competence in scientific bibliography, web research, etc.

First part: critical methodologies etc.
Second part: monographic lessons; this year it's about short story.

1. Boccaccio, Decameron: I giornata, I novella [Ser Cepperello]; II giornata, V novella [Andreuccio da Perugia]; II giornata, VII novella [Il soldano di Babilonia e Alatiel]; IV giornata, V novella [Lisabetta]; V giornata, VIII novella [Nastagio degli Onesti]; VI giornata, X novella [Frate Cipolla] and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Decameron [www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKEyuOsF4w ]
2. Xavier De Maistre, Il giro della stanza, trans. by Flavio Santi, La Grande Illusion, Pavia, 2019; or Hermann Melville, Bartleby lo scrivano, trans. by Flavio Santi, Rizzoli BUR, Milano, 2013 [to choose]
3. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, La sirena, Feltrinelli, Milano
4. Giovanni Arpino, La suora giovane, Ponte alle Grazie
5. Ugo Facco De Lagarda, Il commissario Pepe, Giano

+ short stories, essays, links attached to E-learning platform.

Convenzionale

Lessons, exercises, seminars.

For any further information, please write to teacher.
Office hours: after every lesson h 4.30 p.m., in Oriani.

Professors

SANTI FLAVIO