Modern Literary Genres in Italy

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4016389FNW for working 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

Enrollment Requirements

NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

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 2022-2023:

Sperimentalismo modernista: dall'avanguardia al rinnovamento della narrativa (1903-1925)

The course "Generi letterari della modernità in Italia" focuses on representative works from crucial moments for the genre developments in the modern and contemporary periods.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Generi letterari della modernità in Italia 2022-2023 - Reader, Dirk Vanden Berghe, 2022
Digital course material (Required) : Generi letterari della modernità in Italia 2022-2023 - Dispense - Esercizi, Dirk Vanden Berghe, 2022
Handbook (Required) : "Uno, nessuno e centomila", Luigi Pirandello, Einaudi (Torino), 9788806221966, 2014

Additional info

Students in the day program are expected to prepare the text fragments on a weekly basis. These are always discussed in the lectures.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students should be able to characterize Italian literary texts from a content-thematic, stylistic, rhetorical, metric, narratological and intermedial perspective. They can situate these texts in the whole of the author’s literary career or in the movement to which they belong, including through independent reading of some fundamental critical studies and through the 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:

Examen tekstverklaring-lectuur with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

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

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

Additional info regarding evaluation

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. The partial results can not be transferred to the next 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