ID:
509226
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
In a philological and hermeneutic perspective, the course provides in-depth investigations into literary works, authors, major historical and cultural issues of the italian literary modernity, exploring its connections with philosophical thinking, and with an attentive look at Human sciences (Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Sociology etc.).
The expected outcomes are as follows:
• Awareness of some grand cultural, philosophical and conceptual issues of the european modernity in their connection with twentieth-century italian literature;
• Ability to apply the knowledge acquired in the analysis of the texts/works examined during the lessons;
• Ability to expose the knowledge acquired during the lessons with a precise and correct technical-scientific language.
The expected outcomes are as follows:
• Awareness of some grand cultural, philosophical and conceptual issues of the european modernity in their connection with twentieth-century italian literature;
• Ability to apply the knowledge acquired in the analysis of the texts/works examined during the lessons;
• Ability to expose the knowledge acquired during the lessons with a precise and correct technical-scientific language.
Course Prerequisites
For foreign students, a good language proficiency is requested.
It is desirable (but not strictly necessary) to have a basic knowledge of the history of italian literature, in particular of the twentieth century.
It is desirable (but not strictly necessary) to have a basic knowledge of the history of italian literature, in particular of the twentieth century.
Teaching Methods
The course is divided into frontal lectures, during which the texts/works object of the course will be analyzed and commented. The texts will be uploaded to the KIRO platform, and will be projected during the lessons to facilitate the sharing and to stimulate the discussion with the students. Where appropriate, the teacher will use presentations in Powerpoint, which will then be uploaded to KIRO in PDF files. All the skills involved will be analytically and plainly provided during the lessons. Class attendance is highly recommended. The course will be accompanied by an optional 6-hour seminar (3 lessons), at a time to be agreed with the students interested, in which the topics of the course will be explored in depth.
Assessment Methods
The exam consists of an individual oral test, aimed at assessing the skills acquired in relation to the course contents. The test focuses on the discussion of one or more issues covered by the course, and on the analysis/ comment of the texts treated in class. The final assessment is based on the degree of deepening and understanding of the topics presented, the ability to integrate the knowledge acquired during the course, and to present them in a fluid manner, using an appropriate lexicon. NB: the exam, as well as the lessons, focuses on reading and commenting on passages from the works covered by the course. Having all the texts covered by the course, no matter whether in paper or electronic format, is therefore an NECESSARY condition for taking the exam.
Texts
The analytical bibliography will be provided during the lessons. Course materials will be uploaded to KIRO; unless otherwise stated, the course programme will focus exclusively on them. The bibliography given below will therefore provide just some essential points of reference for the lectures. Economic editions of Celati's Works by Feltrinelli and Quodlibet are allowed. Students can use the paperback edition ("Oscar") of "Tutte le Poesie" by Andrea Zanzotto, keeping as an ideal point of reference and as a tool the "Meridiano" of "Poesie e prose scelte", Milano, Mondadori, 1999. MAIN SECONDARY SOURCES - Saggi introduttivi di Stefano Agosti e Fernando Bandini, Note ai testi di Stefano Dal Bianco e Gian Mario Villalta, Cronologia di G.M. Villalta, nel "Meridiano" citato of "Poesie e prose scelte" (1999) - Luca Stefanelli, Attraverso la Beltà di Andrea Zanzotto. Macrotesto, intertestualità, ragioni genetiche, Pisa, ETS, 2011 - Id., Il divenire di una poetica. Il Logos veniente di Andrea Zanzotto dalla Beltà a Conglomerati, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2015 - Francesco Venturi, Genesi e storia della "trilogia" di Andrea Zanzotto, Pisa, ETS, 2016 - Andrea Cortellessa, Zanzotto. Il canto nella terra, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2021
Contents
"Faglie" between Nature and Culture in Andrea Zanzotto's Galateo in Bosco; and in the "pseudo-trilogia" (1978-1986)
Starting from a general introduction to the arduous poetic journey of one of the greatest European poets of the last century, Andrea Zanzotto (Pieve di Soligo, 1921-Conegliano 2011), the course will focus on Il Galateo in Bosco, which can be considered the peak of Zanzotto's poetry after the masterpiece of his early maturity La Beltà (1968), and the first panel of the "psudo-trilogy" which includes the two subsequent collections: Fosfeni (1983) and Idioma (1986). Through a direct hermeneutic confrontation with the textuality (and the tight macro-textuality) of Zanzotto, also with the aid of the very rich genetic materials of the Centro Manoscritti of Pavia, we will investigate in particular the great thematic and linguistic-formal issues of one of the poets most early and authentically sensitive to the climate-environmental problem ("ctonio" Gianfranco Contini defined him in the enthusiastic preface to the collection): the status of poetry in the technical age; the relationship between history/culture/literature (the Galateo precisely) and nature (the forest bosco-silva-hyle), and the progressive slide of historical time into geological time; the connection between individual history (-neurosis) and collective trauma (in this case: the Great War of '14 - '18); the poetics of the "logos veniente" ("logos erchomenos"), developed from notes scattered among the papers of "La Beltà", and which feeds on multiple sources: from romantic mythography and the great German Idealism to Martin Heidegger; from the Bible to Walter Benjamin; from anthropology to psychoanalysis; from embryology to the mathematical theory of catastrophes by René Thom, etc.
The course includes: a visit to the Centro Manoscritti, which will allow students to directly engage with Zanzotto's way of working; co-presence lessons with specialists from other disciplines involved.
Starting from a general introduction to the arduous poetic journey of one of the greatest European poets of the last century, Andrea Zanzotto (Pieve di Soligo, 1921-Conegliano 2011), the course will focus on Il Galateo in Bosco, which can be considered the peak of Zanzotto's poetry after the masterpiece of his early maturity La Beltà (1968), and the first panel of the "psudo-trilogy" which includes the two subsequent collections: Fosfeni (1983) and Idioma (1986). Through a direct hermeneutic confrontation with the textuality (and the tight macro-textuality) of Zanzotto, also with the aid of the very rich genetic materials of the Centro Manoscritti of Pavia, we will investigate in particular the great thematic and linguistic-formal issues of one of the poets most early and authentically sensitive to the climate-environmental problem ("ctonio" Gianfranco Contini defined him in the enthusiastic preface to the collection): the status of poetry in the technical age; the relationship between history/culture/literature (the Galateo precisely) and nature (the forest bosco-silva-hyle), and the progressive slide of historical time into geological time; the connection between individual history (-neurosis) and collective trauma (in this case: the Great War of '14 - '18); the poetics of the "logos veniente" ("logos erchomenos"), developed from notes scattered among the papers of "La Beltà", and which feeds on multiple sources: from romantic mythography and the great German Idealism to Martin Heidegger; from the Bible to Walter Benjamin; from anthropology to psychoanalysis; from embryology to the mathematical theory of catastrophes by René Thom, etc.
The course includes: a visit to the Centro Manoscritti, which will allow students to directly engage with Zanzotto's way of working; co-presence lessons with specialists from other disciplines involved.
Course Language
Italian
More information
For foreign students, custom exam program to be agreed. Class attendance is highly recommended; students who cannot attend are invited to contact the Teacher to the email address provided, in order to agree an alternative exam program.
Degrees
Degrees
MODERN PHILOLOGY
Master’s Degree
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