Learning objectives
<br />GOALS: <br />The goal of the course is to render students capable of independently developing a critical essay and review to be published in a literary journal. <br />Towards this goal, before the oral exam, students are required to submit a critical essay (5 pages of 2000 characters per page) and review of a literary text. <br />The potential topics from which students may select to write on, shall be agreed upon with the course instructor.
Prerequisites
<br />PREREQUISITES: 10 credits of Italian Literature. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
Course unit content
<br /><br />CONTENTS: <br />Course title: Italian literature and critical essays (5 university credits)<br /> <br />After having covered the essay as a literary form, with special emphasis on the various types and communicative forms of essay, the course will examine two writers from the early part of the 20th century (Giuseppe Antonio Borgese and Federigo Tozzi) who, in addition to their fiction work, produced a significant amount of essays and articles of literary criticism.<br />
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Bibliography
<br />BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br />Author bibliography:<br />G.A. Borgese, photocopies of critical essays taken from La Vita e il Libro e Tempo di edificare), Rube, I vivi e i morti<br />F. Tozzi, critical essays that form the appendix to L?a! nsia dell?i nesprimibile, Con gli occhi chiusi, Tre croci<br />Bibliography of literary criticism<br />A. Cavalli, L?unita della letteratura. Borgese critico scrittore (Patron Editore), L?ansia dell?inesprimibile. Introduzione all?opera di F. Tozzi (patron Editore) <br />AA. VV., Scritture, MUP Editore<br />GOALS: <br />The goal of the course is to render students capable of independently developing a critical essay and review to be published in a literary journal. <br />Towards this goal, before the oral exam, students are required to submit a critical essay (5 pages of 2000 characters per page) and review of a literary text. <br />The potential topics from which students may select to write on, shall be agreed upon with the course instructor
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