Italian Seminar: Creative writing

elective courses

Italian language skills on the B2 level

Literary forms and genres’ analysis. Basics of narrative studies. Italian writing workshop.

Various literary forms and genres as well as basic components of narrative studies shall be analysed and practiced during the course.

The course classes shall be based on the linguistic richness of the contemporary Italian novels.

The course is aimed at delving into reading and writing in Italian, with special attention paid to the vocabulary and style, as well as development of the awareness, that writing can be used as a tool to convey personal view of the world, to communicate with the world, with others and with ourselves.

Raymond Queneau, Esercizi di stile

Italo Calvino, Lezioni americane

Umberto Eco, Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi

Angelo Marchese, L’officina del racconto

Jorge Luis Borges, L’invenzione della poesia

Raymond Carver, Il mestiere di scrivere

Raymond Carver, Niente trucchi da quattro soldi

Flannery O’Connor, Nel territorio del diavolo

Rainer Maria Rilke, Lettere ad un giovane poeta

Daniel Pennac, Come un romanzo

Gabriel García Marquez, Come si scrive un racconto

Julio Cortazar, Del racconto breve e dintorni

Roberta Mazzoni, Scrivere

Franco Gaudiano, Manuale di scrittura creativa

S. Brugnolo, G. Mozzi, Ricettario di scrittura creativa

Lektury

Giuseppe Pontiggia, Il residence delle ombre cinesi

Giuseppe Pontiggia, Nati due volte

Giuseppe Pontiggia, Vite di uomini non illustri

Dino Buzzati, Il colombre

Dino Buzzati, Sessanta racconti

Stefano Benni, Stranalandia

Antonio Tabucchi, Piazza Italia

Alessandro Baricco, Oceano Mare

Alessandro Baricco, Barnum

Erri De Luca, Tu, mio

Erri De Luca, Nocciolo d’oliva

Erri De Luca, In nome della madre

Giovanni Guareschi, Don Camillo e i giovani d’oggi

Giovanni Guareschi, Corrierino delle famiglie

Stefano Jacomuzzi, Cominciò in Galilea

Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami, La vita è bella

Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami, La tigre e la neve

Knowledge:

- has an in-depth knowledge of the language as the basic form of expression and and as medium of a given culture, reflecting its characteristic historical

and cultural processes

- is well familiar with the methods of analysing literary texts

Skills:

- can interpret and analyse literary texts independently, taking into consideration their historical and regional context

- can write papers such as: short stories, articles, essays in Italian

Social competences:

- in discussion, the students respect the opinions od their companions and uses substantive arguments

Theoretical aspects shall be verified during oral tests, while papers shall be read-out and analysed, with particular consideration of their style and expresiveness.