| Call Number | 10907 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
R 2:10pm-4:00pm 501 Hamilton Hall |
| Points | 3 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Elizabeth Leake |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Method of Instruction | In-Person |
| Course Description | The course examines some of the most important novels that belong to Italys period of major social and economic transformations. Only after WWII Italy finally becomes a modern nation, i.e. a republic based on truly universal suffrage, and an industrialized country. Such accelerated progress, though,causes deep social instability and mobility which obviously results in heavy psychological pressures on the people: adaptation becomes crucial and inevitable. Fiction therefore resumes the task to represent such awkwardness of integration into a modern bourgeois society that, contrarily to its European and American counterpart, is extremely tentative and insecure per se, since its political identity has extremely precarious grounds. Among other authors, primary readings include Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas The Leopard and Italo Calvinoss If on a Winters Night a Traveler. Primary Readings in Italian. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | Italian |
| Enrollment | 3 students (20 max) as of 1:06PM Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Subject | Italian |
| Number | GU4395 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Interfaculty |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Section key | 20233ITAL4395G001 |