Results for ITALLIT

The origins of Italian literature. Poetry such as 13th-century love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, and Petrarca's Canzoniere; prose such as stories from Boccaccio's Decameron. Prerequisite: ITALLANG 22A or equivalent.

The literature, art, and history of the Renaissance and beyond. Readings from the 15th through 18th centuries include Moderata Fonte, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Tasso, Galileo, and Goldoni. Prerequisite: ITALLANG 22A or equivalent.

The history of the Italian nation and national literary identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. The relationship between literary texts and their historical context from the Risorgimento to the Resistance. Focus is on the romantic lyric, futurism, fascism, and the changing status of women. Authors include Foscolo, Leopardi, D'Annunzio, Aleramo, Marinetti, Pirandello, Ungaretti, and Montale. Prerequisite: ITALLANG 22A or equivalent.

Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite: DLCL 189.

Open to juniors with consent of adviser while drafting honors proposal. Open to senior honors students while revising honors thesis. Prerequisites for seniors: 189A, DLCL 189.

"Senso" by Boito and Visconti, Nievo's "Confessioni," the new interpretations of the historian Alberto Maria Banti, Mario Martone's "Noi credevamo," Umberto Eco's "Il cimitero di Praga."

The quest for a modern identity in the 20th-century Italian novel. The construction of subjectivity as it relates to changes brought about by modernity in Italy, such as mass culture, nationalism, industrialization, feminism, war, secularization, migration, and ethnic diversity. Fiction by Svevo, Pirandello, Calvino, Banti, and Tabucchi. In Italian.

For graduate students working on a special project or predissertation research. May be repeated for credit.

Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Introduction to the question of "italianità", or "Italian-ness", through the intersection of photography with modern Italian literature and cinema. Includes an exploration of "alternative" identities and visual culture in Italy. Excerpts from seminal pieces of Italian literature, women writers, hybrid works such as phototexts, andnnItalian films. A gateway course to a major or minor in Italian studiesnnand forum for improving written and oral proficiency. Lecture,nndiscussions and readings in Italian. Prerequisite: students must have two years of college-level Italian(or equivalent).