PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT THE PROFESSOR’S DISCRETION.
Homework assignments and handouts will be posted daily on Moodle.
I Week (Sept. 22, 24)
Introduction to the course.
Main characteristics of the narrative texts: the narrator and characters, point of view, dynamic and static sequences.
Reading: a section from A. Moravia, Non approfondire
Strategies of the organization of the plot: fabula e intreccio.
Reading: Gabriele Romagnoli, L’altra.
II Week (Sept 29, Oct 1)
Discussion about the text: Gabriele Romagnoli, L’altra.
Textual analysis: the first-person narrator.
Grammar: past tense agreement; condizionale presente and passato.
Time conjunctions
Reading: Elsa Morante, La giornata.
III Week (Oct 6, 8, 9)
Discussion about the text: Elsa Morante, La giornata
Grammar: Passato remoto. The difference between passato remoto and passato prossimo.
Textual analysis: the third person narrator.
Uses of figurative language: similes and metaphors.
First written composition
Reading: Gianrico Carofiglio Non esiste saggezza.
IV Week (Oct 13, 15, 16)
Discussion about the text: Gianrico Carofiglio Non esiste saggezza.
The concept of right and wrong in contemporary Italian literary fiction.
Grammar: Congiuntivo Presente; conjuctions which require the subjunctive form.
V Week (Oct 20, 22)
Revision
Oct 22 Test I
Reading: Antonio Tabucchi, Il gatto dello Cheshire.
VI week (Oct 27, 29)
Discussion about the text: Antonio Tabucchi, Il gatto dello Cheshire
Grammar: Congiuntivo imperfetto e trapassato.
Textual analysis: Points of view.
VII Week (Nov 3, 5)
Reading: Gabriele Romagnoli Donna sulle scale
Discussion about the text.
Grammar: Il gerundio modale
VIII Week (Nov 10, 12, 13)
Revision.
Test II
Reading: Leonardo Sciascia, Il lungo viaggio
IX Week (Nov 17, 19)
Discussion about the text: Leonardo Sciascia, Il lungo viaggio. When We Were the Immigrants.
Grammar and textual analysis: direct, indirect speech.
X Week (Nov 24, 26)
Il lungo viaggio (cont.)
Free indirect speech
Reading: N. Ginzburg, Viaggiatori maldestri
Second written composition
XI Week (Dec 1, 3)
Discussion about the text: N. Ginzburg, Viaggiatori maldestri
Grammar: il gerundio temporale e causale
XII week (Dec 10)
Oral presentation.
General review
December 11-14 FINAL EXAMINATIONS