IN TRANSLATION: LIT OF MODERN ITALY-EXISTENTIALISM, FASCISM, RESISTANCE

LITTRANS 410

Treatment of a specific perific period, genre, theme or movement in Italian literature.

ITALIAN 632

Survey of Italian literature from Mid-Modernity to the 21st century. Topics vary. Taught in Italian.

ITALIAN 230

A survey of Italian history, literature, art, music, politics, and popular culture of the 20th-21st centuries.

ITALIAN 636

History and trends of the Italian novel between tradition and innovation from early 20th Century to the Present.

LITTRANS 248

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.