Through the analysis of a significant problem, the course aims to integrate and enrich knowledge in the field of Italian literature, not only by acquiring information, but above all by studying the development of critical methods in their historical context, in order to foster awareness of the historical depth of reflection on literature and the autonomy of one's own critical approach.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge acquired through secondary school education, consolidated and deepened through university study of Italian literature.
Teaching Methods
The course will consist of in-person lectures, open to student participation, largely based on direct readings of the texts. All lectures will be recorded live in audio format, creating podcasts available to enrolled students. Required materials of various types (texts, diagrams, reproductions, etc.) will be available, both for lectures and for personal study, on the Kiro platform.
Assessment Methods
The oral exam is designed to assess direct knowledge of the texts and the ability to personally reinterpret their content. Students will have the option of completing a written paper on the topics covered during the course.
Texts
Kiro-loaded materials Giorgio Panizza, Il romanzo e la storia, in Manzoni, a cura di Paola Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 201-220 Alessandro Manzoni, Del romanzo storico e altri scritti sulla storia e l’invenzione, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2024 Benedetto Croce – Renato Serra, Polemica sulla storia, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2012 Carlo Ginzburg, Appendice. Prove e possibilità, in Il filo e le tracce. Vero, falso, finto, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2023 Jonathan Littell e Pierre Nora, Conversazione sulla storia e il romanzo, Torino, Einaudi, 2007 Javier Cercas, Bruno Arpaia,. L'avventura di scrivere romanzi, Parma, Guanda, 2013
Contents
Truth and Fiction: Discussions on the Novel and History between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
