6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4016387FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Italian
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
Linguistics and Literary Studies
Educational team
Dirk Vanden Berghe (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
75 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

 Topic academic year 2021-2022:

Dall’Europa all’Italia: la soggettività individuale e la prima modernità (Giacomo Leopardi) 

 


The course “Letteratura europea e italiana dal Settecento a oggi” aims to deepen some of the formal aspects and contents that allow us to establish a connection between the Italian literary tradition and the coeval European context. It has been thought for a long time that Italy, in the Long 18th Century, played a marginal role in the cultural debates happening in Europe, being indifferent towards the intellectual innovations coming from abroad. But in reality many important authors were extremely receptive to the different stylistic features and contents that were spreading on the continent from France, England and Germany. The course will elaborate further on the links between some of the most prominent poets of the time (Monti, Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi) with various European (Shakspeare, Voltaire, Pope, Goethe, Gessner, Ossian, Byron, Scott) and classical (Homer) authors, with some concrete examples. 


 

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Letteratura europea e italiana dal Settecento a oggi 2019-20120 - Reader, Andrea Penso - Dirk Vanden Berghe, 2021
Digital course material (Required) : Letteratura europea e italiana dal Settecento a oggi 2019-2020 – Dispense-Esercizi, Andrea Penso - Dirk Vanden Berghe, 2021
Additional info

None.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The students must be able to characterize a number of texts and translations within the Italian literature from a content-thematic, stylistic, rhetorical, metric or narratological perspective. They can situate these texts in the whole of the author’s literary career or of the movement to which they belong, amongst others by means of independent reading of a few fundamental critical studies and through assignments.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Texts, personal reading with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: Participation to al assignments of the exam is mandatory within one academic year because the content of the course varies yearly.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Exercises (paper) with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: The students must submit a first draft of the assignments during the semester and will receive feedback about it. The final submission of the assignments will be in the period prior to the examination.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students in the day program are expected to prepare text fragments and/or secondary reading each week. These are always discussed in the lectures.

The first drafts of the exercises will be evaluated during the semester.

Students have to succeed in all parts of the evaluation procedure in order to obtain a pass mark for the whole course.

Student who fail to participate in all the parts of the evaluation procedure will be automatically marked as "absent".

Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark. These results can not be transferred to the following academic year

At the oral exam, the students are granted with preparation time

 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Intermediality - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Intermediality - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition - 1 language (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition - 2 languages (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Literary Studies 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Linguistics 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition 1 Language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Multilingualism and Foreign Language Acquisition 2 Languages
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Intermediality - 1 language
Master of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Profile Intermediality - 2 languages