Italian Literature (20100)
Degree/study: Grade in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term:1st
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: JoséMaría Micó (master classes) and Alba Teixidó (seminars)
1. Presentation of the subject
Studying and interpreting the main periods, schools, works and authors in the history of literature in Italian. An introduction to the most important periods and authors in the Italian literary history, with a special stress on poetry. The work by the fundamental authors will be studied: Dante Alighieri (specially, the Divine Comedy), Ludovico Ariosto (the fundamental fragments in Orlando furioso) and Giacomo Leopardi (the Canti). A thorough commentary of these works will alternate with panoramic views of their literary context (the 12th and 13th centuries, the Renaissance and the Romanticism) and of their impact on other periods and literatures.
2. Competences to be attained
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Specific competences |
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1. Reading and comprehension skills for formally and semantically complex texts. Identification of information implicit in the text. 2. Analysis and synthesis skills. 3. Writing skills in one's own language. 4. Abstract reasoning and ability to form conceptual networks on specific issues. Understanding the interrelation between Literature, Art, History and Thought. 5. Information management and processing skills. Interpersonal skills 6. Acknowledgement of cultural diversity. 7. Ethical reflection skills about human behaviour. 8. Aesthetic judgement skills. 9. Adapting to group work skills, based on a well-reasoned confrontation of points of view. Systemic skills 10. Historical knowledge of other literatures. |
1. Knowledge of the origin of the Italian literary tradition through its great authors. 2. Skills in understanding and interpreting, within their historic, social and cultural contexts, complex literary texts. 3. Skills in analysing the formal structures of the different literary genres. 4. Skills in recognising the characteristic traits of a classic or canonical literary piece of work and in identifying the continuity and the innovative elements. 5. Analytical reading. Skills in establishing interrelations within a text and with other contemporary, anterior and posterior texts. 6. Expression skills. |
3. Contents
Unit 1 - Dante Alighieri: Divina Commedia.
Unit 2 - Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando furioso.
Unit 3 - Giacomo Leopardi: Canti.
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4. Assessment
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5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
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5.2. Complementary bibliography
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6. Metodology
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7. Planning of activities
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