Corso di laurea magistrale in Letteratura, Filologia e Linguistica italiana

The knowledge of the method and tools of variant criticism; the ability to apply them, making them interact with linguistic analysis, to literary texts from different historical periods; the ability to investigate the works of a twentieth-century writer starting from the manuscripts, following the different editorial stages up to the final outcome documented by the papers or printed editions, interpreting the different stages in the light of the historical, cultural, linguistic and editorial context of the time.

At the end of the course, the student must demonstrate that he/she:

1) know the bibliography, method and tools of variant criticism;

2) know how to combine variant criticism and linguistic analysis at different levels: phonetic, morphological, lexical, syntactic;

3) Knowing how to investigate the archives of 20th century writers by identifying and dating the different editorial phases of works;

4) know how to assess the orientations and scope within the evolution of literary and customary Italian and in the coeval historical and literary context.

36 hours (6 CFUs) of lessons, which take place in the classroom, partly in frontal form and partly in seminar form,
through the active participation of students in the identification and discussion of linguistic features
of some texts.

Knowledge and skills will be verified during the seminar discussions and through the drafting of a brief, ten-page report, about a topic to be agreed with the teacher; the written report will be discussed in a final oral exam (grades 30/30) in which the student will have to show knowing and being able to independently apply specific vocabulary, tools and analysis methods of the subject.

Starting with Gianfranco Contini's essay, Come lavorava l'Ariosto (1939), a method of analysis has been developed in Italy that reads the text in the unfolding of the process that leads from the first notes, from the first germinative nucleus, to the various phases of editorial elaboration (sketches, provisional drafts, rethinks, transcriptions, corrections, drafts) up to the finished work. Illustrative examples will be given of the text as yard, workshop, laboratory: from Petrarch, to Ariosto, to Leopardi, to Manzoni up to twentieth-century authors such as Caproni, Pasolini, Morante; in the second part of the course Beppe Fenoglio's works, most of which remained unfinished and unpublished, will be presented.

Inserire qui il testo in inglese (massimo 4000 caratteri). Non eliminare l’indicazione “English” tra le parentesi quadre; è necessaria per la creazione dell’etichetta di visualizzazione del testo in inglese. Una volta inseriti i testi eliminare queste indicazioni in modo che non risultino visibili agli studenti.

Inserire qui il testo in inglese (massimo 4000 caratteri). Non eliminare l’indicazione “English” tra le parentesi quadre; è necessaria per la creazione dell’etichetta di visualizzazione del testo in inglese. Una volta inseriti i testi eliminare queste indicazioni in modo che non risultino visibili agli studenti.