Programmi

Lecturers/Professors:	BROGI Daniela
Educational activities:	Contemporary Italian Literature
Academic discipline:	L-FIL-LET/11
Teaching hours:	36
Course hours:	36
Credits:	6
Teaching period:	2° semestre
Course Title: Course content:	70 years after its publication, The Baron in the Trees (1957) proves to be a work that is more contemporary than ever.Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, the novel’s young protagonist who abandons life on the ground and human society to go and live in the trees, carries out a radical act of ecological rebellion ahead of its time. The course is dedicated to a re-reading of The Baron, alongside which Marcovaldo and Palomar will be examined and re-evaluated through the lens of ecocriticism.
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Course books:	Per studenti frequentanti (N.B: si considerano frequentanti gli/le studenti che abbiano frequentato due terzi delle lezioni): a) Tutti i contenuti delle lezioni, i materiali critici distribuiti o mostrati durante la lezione, e le attività didattiche aggiuntive svolte nel corso del modulo (partecipazione a conferenze e seminari, attività; altre). b) La lettura integrale e la capacità di commento delle seguenti opere di Calvino: Italo Calvino, Il barone rampante [1957], Mondadori, Milano 2022 Id., Marcovaldo, ovvero le stagioni in città [1963], Mondadori, Milano 2023 Id. Palomar [1983], Mondadori, Milano 2013 c) Lo studio dei seguenti libri: Rachel Carson, Primavera silenziosa [1962], Feltrinelli, Milano 2025 Mario Barenghi, Calvino, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009 Per studenti non frequentanti Gli/Le studenti che prepareranno l’esame da non frequentanti dovranno studiare tutta la bibliografia riportata qui sopra, aggiungendo: Niccolò Scaffai, Letteratura e ecologia, Carocci, Roma 2017 Marco Belpoliti, L’occhio di Calvino, Einaudi, Torino 1996
Teaching Methods:	Lessons will take place in person. Various teaching formats will be used during the course: lectures (expository teaching) and seminars (interactive teaching). Audiovisual aids, visual materials and film screenings will be used. The course will also be enriched by supplementary educational activities (lectures, conferences, concerts, etc.).
Learning Objectives:	Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of nineteenth-century Italian literature and of the texts discussed in lectures ¿Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: ability to analyse texts and use interdisciplinary tools; ability to study cultural history through artistic forms ¿Independent judgement: ability to interpret texts through an argumentative framework Communication skills: enrichment of Italian vocabulary and critical discourse. ¿*Learning skills: the habit of analysing texts and adopting a comparative and cross-disciplinary perspective; the acquisition of an intercultural perspective, in order to learn to consider and study Italian literature as a space for exchange, hybridisation and dialogue with other languages and cultures.
Expected Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods:	oral exam
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