ITAL 3201 is also offered in Fall 2024
ITAL 3201 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2020 | ITAL 3201 Section 001: Reading Italian Texts: Poetics, Rhetoric, Theory (63526)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- A basic course in understanding the rhetorical and poetic aspects of language and literature; interpretive methods and theoretical concepts. prereq: 3015
- Class Description:
- How do we read? What does it mean to read critically? What do we expect from texts? How have reading (and writing) practices changed in today's twitter/facebook culture? How do our interpretations of texts differ from past ones? These are some of the questions we will raise in this course. The course wants to introduce students to thinking critically about the ways in which we read cultural texts and examine(among other issues) the relation between text and context, images and words, politics, gender and culture and to think critically about different "ways of knowing" and the interpretion of cultural materials. The hub of the course will focus on two important texts of post-unification 19th century Italy: Collodi's Pinnochio (1884) and De Amicis's Cuore (1886). We will examine and compare these "children's stories" from a variety of theoretical perspectives as well analyze cinematic versions of the former. Through these texts we will introduce students to a wide range of critical reading skills and develop some library research methods. The course will enable students to further their understanding of Italian culture and literature as well as gain an understanding of reading practices, both historical and contemporary. Graduate students will examine these texts also in light of post-unification reading practices and nation-building practices (Croce, De Sanctis, Gramsci) as well as in light of contemporary Italian theoretical approaches.
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
60% Discussion
20% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 30-40 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
4 Quiz(zes)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/63526/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 October 2012
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