Modern Authors

Catalog description

This course includes a survey of Italian narrative and poetic production in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The course investigates the progress of modern and contemporary Italy through the in-depth reading of narrative, poetry, theatre and cinema; it provides students with a theoretical framework with which to conduct a comprehensive discussion of the subject. The material covered features an interdisciplinary approach, based on the study of cultural issues conveyed by some of the masterpieces also in painting, sculpture, music, architecture and, where feasible, their relationships with literature itself. Special emphasis will be given to literary and cultural backgrounds of the authors and their works; hence, lectures and in-class discussions analyze the works from a cultural, social and historical perspective.