ITL 375 Scrivere il Fascismo, la Guerra e la Resistenza Spring 2018
(Writing Fascism, the War, the Resistance) TTh 2:00-3:15 HRH 2.112 Instructor: Daniela Bini; office HRH 3.112C; office hours: Th 3:30- 6:00 and by appointment. E-mail: [email protected]; office ph. 471-5995; home ph. 477-8649
Italian literature has been a manifestation of a cultural elite with little or no contact with the masses. The distance between the learned language, taught in school, and the many dialects, spoken in the various regions has contributed to the problem. It was precisely against this historical and social phenomenon that Antonio Gramsci waged his battle. Literature, that is rooted in the history and culture of a country, must maintain this contact with the social-historical forces that have formed it and aim at the improvement of those very forces. In the narrative production of the first half of the twentieth century, the literature of the war and of the Resistance, represents the best attempt to achieve such goal: writing in order to remember, to tell of a past experience made of mistakes and suffering, not only in order to exorcise it, but also in order to learn from it. Placing them in their historical background, we will read the following novels and watch the following films dealing with the experience of the war, fascism and the resistance:
Ignazio Silone: Fontamara Renata Viganò: L’Agnese va a morire Cesare Pavese: La casa in collina Italo Calvino: Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo
Film on Reserve at Fine Arts: Roberto Rossellini: Roma città aperta Roberto Rossellini: Paisà Vittorio de Sica: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini P. e V. Taviani: La notte di San Lorenzo Ettore Scola: Una giornata particolare
Books on Reserve at PCL: Roberto Battaglia: Breve storia della Resistenza italiana Giorgio Bocca: L'Italia fascista Dogliani, Patrizia: L’Italia fascista Alexander De Grand: Italian Fascisms Giuseppe Mammarella: Italy After Fascism
The course will be taught in Italian, and the grades will be computed as follows: two exams: midterm: 25%, final: 30%; three papers: 30%; class participation: 15%.
This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non-U.S. cultural group, past or present.
SILLABO (provvisiorio)
Gennaio 16 Introduzione al corso 18 Ignazio Silone, Fontamara
23 Fontamara 25 Fontamara 30 Fontamara skip 4, read 5
Febbraio 1 Fontamara, saltate (skip) cap. 6 to p. 147 (7,8 pages from the end). Leggere da “A Fontamara non c’erano più di due famiglie. . .” alla fine del capitolo.Leggere tutto il cap. 7.
6 Fontamara: saltate il cap. 8 fino a pag. 184 : Leggete da “Così arrivammo nei pressi della stazione, senza volerlo” (circa 8 pagine prima della fine del cap.). Leggete fino alla fine del romanzo. 8 Italo Calvino: Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
13 Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno 15 Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
20 Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno 22 Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno I TEMA
27 FILM: Ettore Scola, Una giornata particolare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pXCXwP5Ex0 (in italiano con sottotitoli in spagnolo) Marzo 1 ESAME
6 Cesare Pavese La casa in collina 8 La casa in collina
SPRING BREAK 20 La casa in collina 22 La casa in collina
27 La casa in collina--II TEMA 29 Renata Viganò, L’Agnese va a morire
APRILE 3 L’Agnese va a morire 5 L’Agnese va a morire
10 L’Agnese va a morire 12 L’Agnese va a morire
17 L’Agnese va a morire 19 III TEMA; Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo
24 Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo 26 Se questo è un uomo
May 1 Se questo è un uomo 3 ESAME
Grading: Assignments and final grades will be converted to letter grades consistent with university policy:
Excellent range: A+ (98-100), A (94-97), A- (90-93) Above average / good range: B+ (88-89), B (84-87), B- (80-83) Average range: C+ (78-79), C (74-77), C- (70-73) Passing: D+ (68-69), D (64-67), D- (60-63) Failing: F (below 60)
Plagiarism, intentional or not, will result in an automatic F on the assignment as well as possible disciplinary action. For the definition of plagiarism and the University's policy on it, see http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acadint_plagiarism.php. This University web page states the following:
"In simplest terms, [plagiarism] occurs if you represent as your own work any material that was obtained from another source, regardless how or where you acquired it."
"Using verbatim material (e.g., exact words) without proper attribution (or credit) constitutes the most blatant form of plagiarism. However, other types of material can be plagiarized as well, such as ideas drawn from an original source or even its structure (e.g., sentence construction or line of argument)."
"Plagiarism can be committed intentionally or unintentionally."
Cell phones must be turned off and put away and the use of Laptops and IPads will not be permitted during class.
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