Fall 2026

National Identity in the Global World: the Italian Case

Examines national identity in a globalized world through Italian literature, history, and rhetorical analysis.

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Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Ernesto Livorni3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.74 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=269 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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Course details

Credits3 credits

Typically offeredNot Applicable

Subjects

Literature in Translation

About this course

What is a national identity in the context of the fluid globalized world in which we live? How are identities affected by big migratory waves within the same country and, more importantly, from one country or continent to another? The Italian case is one of the many in the so-called Western world that can help us to monitor the possible answers to these questions. Through readings and discussions of novels, avant-garde manifestoes, poems, two main tasks will be accomplished. The first task of analyzing literary texts in a variety of genres (epistolary novel, historical novel, avant-garde rhetoric, poetry) to familiarize ourselves with textual analysis and some theoretical tools supporting the interpretative tasks of literary criticism. And the second task of appreciating the rhetorical devices that those texts adopt at different times of Italian modern and contemporary history.

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LITTRANS 248

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Professors

Fall 2026

Ernesto Livorni

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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ERNESTO LIVORNI is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Fall 2026

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Section	Mode	Enrolled / capacity	Waitlist
LEC 001	Classroom Instruction	15 / 20	0

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.74 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=269 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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Topics

National identity
Migration and identity
Italian modern and contemporary history
Literary genres and avant-garde rhetoric

Skills

Textual analysis of literary works
Appreciation of rhetorical devices
Literary criticism interpretation

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LITTRANS 248 · Fall 2026

National Identity in the Global World: The Italian Case

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