IJ2B008 Selected Readings

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023

The course is not taught in Spring 2023

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Daniela Shalom Vagata, MA, Dottore di Ricerca (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
IJ1A055 Bachelor's State Exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course extends knowledge of Italian modern literature and literary criticism. It is taught every two years. Its specific content is regularly updated.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- analyze literary texts in terms of form and content;
- have a basic idea of the main trends of the Italian literary critique of the 20th century.
- understand the principles of the genesis of a literary work.
Syllabus
  • Commented reading of works by Italian authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Fiction and Literary Criticism.
  • One possible thematic focus:
  • Italian historical novel in the era of Romanticism and risorgimenta.
  • Alessandro Manzoni - I promessi sposi, Adelchi, Sul romanticismo.
  • Massimo d'Azeglio, Tommaso Grossi, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi,Ippolito Nievo, Giuseppe Rovani, Federico De Roberto, Enrico Costa).
  • Italian opera of the 19th century - historical themes.
Literature
  • DE DONATO, Gigliola. Gli archivi del silenzio : la tradizione del romanzo storico italiano. Fasano: Schena editore, 1995, 324 s. ISBN 8875147981. info
  • GANERI, Margherita. Il romanzo storico in Italia : il dibattito critico dalle origini al postmoderno. Lecce: Piero Manni, 1999, 161 s. ISBN 8881760894. info
  • MANZONI, Alessandro. I promessi sposi. Edited by Vittorio Spinazzola. 24. ed. [Milano]: Garzanti, 2000, xxxi, 540. ISBN 88-11-58037-4. info
  • GINZBURG, Natalia. Rodina Manzoniů. Praha: Odeon, 1989. ISBN 8020700722. info
  • NIEVO, Ippolito. Le confessioni di un Italiano. Palermo: Mori, 1968. Narratori moderni.
  • DE ROBERTO, Federico. I vicerè. Edited by Nunzio Zago. 1a ed. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1998, xli, 653. ISBN 8817172154. info
  • WERFEL, Franz. Verdi : román opery. Translated by Jitka Fučíková. Vyd. v Odeonu 2. Praha: Odeon, 1987, 386 s. URL info
  • HOSTOMSKÁ, Anna. Opera : průvodce operní tvorbou. Vyd. 10., dopl. Praha: Svoboda, 1999, 696 s. ISBN 8020505784. info
Teaching methods
lecture, reading of texts, discussion, student papers
Assessment methods
Active participation in the seminar, written paper, oral exam
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
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