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 Science Fiction” 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: Massimo Bontempelli, “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 Dino Buzzati, Il disco si posò “Aliens and Invasion (1954) Paranoia: Is it Weird for the WE ARE NOT Session 1 Martians to Land in Rome?” ALONE: From Outer Space Ennio Flaiano, 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 Primo Levi, 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 novels and (1982) SERGIO comic books BONELLI Antonio Serra, Nathan Never EDITORE’S (1991) SCIENCE Final paper due 7/20 FICTION .