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Poesia Italiana tra Otto e Novecento
Course code: ITAL4925
Course unit value: 0.5.
This course is an introduction to the basics of Italian prosody as well as an overview of Italian poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. By looking at some of the most celebrated Italian poems written by different authors, including Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele d’Annunzio, Guido Gozzano, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Eugenio Montale, the course analyses different kinds of Italian verses (endecasillabo, settenario, etc.) and examines the evolution of Italy’s poetry at the turn of the century. Poetic manifestos and critical writings by the poets will also be considered, as well as the role of anthologies in disseminating the knowledge of poems.
Assessment: one 5000 word essay (100%).
Tutor: Dr Beatrice Sica.
Recommended reference books and anthologies: the following is a list of reference books for the analysis of Italian meters and poetic rhetorical devices, as well as of the latest major anthologies of 19th- and 20th-century Italian poetry. A detailed reading list of the primary and secondary sources that will be analyzed during the course will be available at the beginning of classes.
- Pietro G. Beltrami, La metrica italiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011 (or at least Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002)
- Bice Mortara Garavelli, Manuale di retorica, Milano, Bompiani, 2000 (or at least Bice Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Bari, Laterza, 2010; as a very first introduction to rhetorical figures, also Bice Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011)
- Antologia della poesia italiana. Ottocento, a cura di Cesare Segre e Carlo Ossola, Torino, Einaudi, 2007
- Poesia italiana dell’Ottocento, a cura di Maurizio Cucchi, Milano, Garzanti, 1978
- Poesia dell'Ottocento, a cura di Carlo Muscetta ed Elsa Sormani, Torino, G. Einaudi, 1968
- Antologia della poesia italiana. Novecento, 2 voll., a cura di Cesare Segre e Carlo Ossola, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2008
- Poesia italiana del Novecento, a cura di E. Sanguineti, Torino, Einaudi, 2007
- Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Poeti italiani del Novecento, Milano, Mondadori, 2003
