Department of Italian School of Arts and Sciences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 15 Seminary Place, Fifth Floor New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8542 Readings Due dates and lessons

Listen to lesson ONE: Secondo Lorenzini, Ciò che “Imagining the End: accadde a noi tutti la notte del 9 Apocalyptic Imaginary in settembre 190… (1906) Session 1 Italian ” Images of the End Week 1 Livio Horrakh, Dove muore 6/25-7/1 l’astragalo (1971)

THE BEGINNING IS

ALSO THE END Listen to lesson TWO: , “Future, and Futurism: the Cataclisma (1924) Session 2 Exciting Terror of Change” Images of the

Future F. T. Marinetti, Zang Tumb Tumb (1914) Questionnarie due 7/1

Week 2 Listen to lesson THREE: 7/2-7/8 , Il disco si posò “Aliens and Invasion

(1954) Paranoia: Is it Weird for the WE ARE NOT Session 1 Martians to Land in ?” ALONE: From Outer Space , Un marziano a ALIENS AND Roma (1954) ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

Listen to lesson FOUR: “Artificial Intelligence and G. J. Ballard’s Inner Space: What Session 2 Dino Buzzati, Il grande ritratto If the Threat Did Not Come From Within (1960) From Outer Space?”

Questionnaire due 7/8

Italo Calvino’s Le cosmicomiche Listen to lesson FIVE: (1965) “Laser Guns Not Included: Week 3 Italo Calvino’s Leap into the 7/9-7/15 Session 1 Lo zio acquatico Cosmos” Reverse Science Fiction I dinosauri BACKWARDS, Un segno nello spazio FLASH Gli anni-luce

FORWARD: THE SCIENCE FICTION OF ITALO Listen to lesson SIX: CALVINO AND , excerpts from “What comes next: Primo Levi PRIMO LEVI Session 2 Storie naturali (1966) and Vizio in the Afterwards” On the Universe di forma (1971)

Questionnaire due 7/15

Week 4

7/16-7/20 Listen to lesson SEVEN: Roberto Recchioni, Orfani “Italian Science Fiction and (2013) LASER GUNS Comic Books: a Very Long,

AND Wonderful Story” Alfredo Castelli, Martin Mystère BALLOONS: Session 1 Graphic and (1982) SERGIO comic books BONELLI Antonio Serra, Nathan Never EDITORE’S (1991) SCIENCE Final paper due 7/20

FICTION