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Course Descriptions
16:560:501 History of the Italian Language (3)
Development of the Italian language from its origins to the present, with emphasis on the phonological, morphological, syntactical, and lexical development of the literary tongue.
16:560:509,510 Italian Civilization (3,3)
Survey of Italian civilization, with emphasis on its expression through the arts from the 13th century to the present.
16:560:511,512 Approaches to Literature (3,3)
Poetry and prose from various periods of Italian literature, with examples of interpretive and textual scholarship and criticism, and various methods of literary study.
16:560:521 (F) Problems of Teaching Italian (1.5)
Objectives, teaching techniques, testing, and student evaluation in elementary and intermediate language and literature courses. Introduction to bibliographical and professional resources. Class observation. Scala
16:560:522 (S) Teaching Apprenticeship in Italian (1.5)
Observation of elementary and intermediate language classes; supervised practice teaching. Scala
16:560:601,602 Studies in Early Italian Literature (3,3)
The beginnings of Italian literature in the 13th century; poetry and prose before Dante, the Sicilian School, and the dolce stil nuovo. Vettori, White
16:560:605 Dante Seminar (3)
Medieval thought as represented in Dante's works. Vettori
16:560:613 Italian Literature of the 14th Century (3)
First semester: Petrarch. Second semester: Boccaccio. White
16:560:615 Italian Literature of the 15th Century (3)
First semester: the development of Humanism (Bruni, Valla, Alberti, Pico della Mirandola, Ficino, and others). Second semester: the poets (Lorenzo, Poliziano, Pulci, Boiardo, and others).
16:560:622 Italian Literature of the 16th Century (3)
Issues of Renaissance literature and culture, seen from a critical perspective. First semester: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and others. Second semester: Castiglione, Della Casa, Speroni, Aretino, Tasso, Fonte, and others. Baldi
16:560:625 Italian Epic and Chivalric Poetry (3)
Medieval origins of the genre and its evolution during the Renaissance through Pulci's Morgante, Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata. Baldi, White
16:560:631 Italian Literature of the 17th Century (3)
Works of Campanella, Marino, Galileo, and baroque theater. White
16:560:632 Italian Literature of the 18th Century (3)
Works of Vico, Goldoni, Gozzi, Parini, Alfieri, and others. White
16:560:635 Vico and His Modern Readers (3)
Vico's major works and his impact on modern readers such as Gramsci, Croce, Cassirer, Berlin, Habermas, and Said. Gambarota
16:560:640 Language and Nation in Italian Thought (3)
Notions and strategies adopted by Italian intellectuals to link language and national identity. Dante, Bembo, Vico, Manzoni, Leopardi, Gramsci, and Pasolini viewed in the light of current theories. Gambarota
16:560:641 The Romantic Age (3)
First half of the 19th century. Neoclassic school and European romantic poetics: Foscolo, Leopardi, and Manzoni. Poets, critics, and ideologues of the Risorgimento. Gambarota
16:560:643 Italian Literature of the Late 19th Century (3)
The Scapigliatura. The major poets: Carducci, Pascoli, D'Annunzio, and their relationship to European decadentism and symbolism. Poetics of naturalism and Verismo: Verga, D'Annunzio, Fogazzaro, and Capuana. Baldi
16:560:647 Italian Women Writers in the 19th and 20th Centuries (3)
Analysis of works by Neera, Marchesa Colombi, Serao, Aleramo, Deledda, Banti, Morante, Ginzburg, Maraini, Ortese, and others. Emphasis on historical and theoretical issues of women's writing (essays by Freud, Riviere, Benjamin, Cixous, Kristeva, and Butler). Baldi
16:560:650 Autobiography: The Art of Self-Fashion (3)
A survey of Italian autobiographic texts through the lens of the most recent theories on the genre (De Man, Dérrida, Lejeune, Gusdorf, Gasché, Spengeman, Eakin). Vettori
16:560:651 Poetry, Theory, and Modernity (3)
Methodological and theoretical issues in the study of lyric poetry within the context of Modernity and in relation to other media. Questions of definition, approaches, and interpretation. Gambarota
16:560:655 Modern Italian Theater (3)
Italian naturalistic and bourgeois theater from its late 19th-century origins to the major works of Verga, D'Annunzio, Giacosa, and Bracco. The "grotesque" theater, Pirandello, and the contemporary theater from Betti, Fabbri, and De Filippo to Zardi, Squarzina, and Testori.
16:560:657 Italian Literature of the 20th Century (3)
Reaction to the 19th-century models in poetry, fiction, and theater; establishment of new models of writing in the cultural climate that followed futurism and World War I; the hermeticism of the 1930s and the neorealism of the 1940s; major authors and trends of recent decades. Gambarota
16:560:662 The Italian Short Story (3)
The origins, development, and influence of the Italian short story from the Novellino to today. Vettori, Baldi
16:560:668 Strategies for Teaching Second Language (3)
This course provides an analysis of the successful strategies used to effectively teach a second language, both in the traditional face-to-face class and online (synchronous/asynchronous and remote). Scala
16:560:673, 674 Problems in Literary Relationships (3,3)
Independent study under the supervision of a faculty member of the relationship between Italian literature and other national literatures. Baldi, Gambarota, Scala, Vettori. White
16:560:691 Topics in Italian Literature and Culture (3)
Study of a special topic in Italian literature and culture. Baldi, Gambarota, Scala, Vettori. White
16:560:701,702 Research in Italian (BA,BA)
Baldi, Gambarota, Vettori. White
ARCHIVE
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- The Court and Constructive Gender - Prof. Baldi
- Italian Women Writers - Prof. Baldi
- Poetry, Theory, and Modernity - Prof. Gambarota
- Language and Nation - Prof. Gambarota
- War and Experience - Prof. Gambarota
- 13th-century Poetry - Prof. Vettori
- Dante - Prof. Vettori
- Novella - Prof. Vettori