2019-2020 / LROM0138-1

Questions of modern Italian literature : XX- XXI centuries, Theory

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (60 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Luciano Curreri

Language(s) of instruction

Italian language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

MASTERTUESDAY.
Novels, Poems, Essays, Scenarios (Films, Documentaries, Comics...) 2018/2020, with the interventions of Sandro Abruzzese, Silvio Alovisio, Elena Basile, Willy Burguet, Guido Conti, Luciano Curreri, Lorenzo De Nicola, Paolo Febbraro, Giovanni Lentini, Giuseppe Palumbo, Sergio Pent... about themselves...
Eight meetings with poets, writers, essayists, directors, translators, academic publishers and booksellers.
This course is a practical attempt at providing a 360-degree update on recent literature, based on a selection of works published between 2018 and 2020. It does not confine itself to considering Italian culture as a dead and buried beauty, nor does it regard it as the spoiled child of standardized media coverage of excellent writers and intellectuals.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

(1) An update of italian literature 
(2) To learn how to write an essay

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

A good knowledge of the Italian language.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

reading, translation, oral and writing exercises, summaries ; interactive method

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

To choose one text in the list distributed.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written papers and oral examination

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

2nd four-month period
Tuesday from 4 pm to 6 pm
Lecture Hall A2 2/3

Contacts

Luciano Curreri
Place Cockerill 3-5, B-4000 Liège
6/18 (Tuesday, from 3 pm to 4 pm, by appointment)

04 366 53 66 (0476 383219)
luciano.curreri@ulg.ac.be

Sabrina Dewar
04 366 54 66
s.dewar@ulg.ac.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

oral presentations » short home assignments

Assessment subjects

texts discussed in class
(1) Antologia essenziale dei poeti del Belgio Francofono. Un esperimento (1835-2015) - Anthologie essentielle de la poésie francophone de Belgique. Une expérience (1835-2015), a cura di Jean-Pierre Bertrand e Luciano Curreri, con la collaborazione di Alex Bardascino, Willy Burguet, Fabrizio Catalano, Luca Di Gregorio e Valentina Duminuco, Venezia Mestre, Amos, 2019 ;
(2) Giovanni Lentini, Vies à l'ombre, Cuesmes (Mons), Cerisier, 2019 ;
(3) Elena Basile, Miraggi, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2018 ;
(4) Lorenzo De Nicola, Pastrone!, Italia, Clean Film, Lab 80 Film, 2019.

Assessment methods

essay written at home

Contacts

luciano.curreri@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

The subject and the evaluation method remain unchanged compared to the May-June session.

Assessment methods

Contacts