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Masterpieces in Italian Literature

Course code

GRR6803.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Itaalia kirjanduse suured raamatud

Course title in English

Masterpieces in Italian Literature

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2025/2026 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Selective reading and analysis of some of the greatest books in Italian literature in their historico-cultural, receptional and theoretical contexts in some particular profile (real and fictional/symbolic space-time; narrator and narration; comment and metacomment; tradition and innovation; image and word; the spirit and anatomy of love; I, God, society; the poetic of the oppressed, etc)

Brief description of the course

The course comprises a selection of the following authors and masterpieces in Italian literature: Dante Alighieri, „La Divina Commedia“; Giovanni Boccaccio, „Decamerone“; Francesco Petrarca, “Canzoniere“ and Giacomo Leopardi „Canti“; Ludovico Ariosto „Orlando furioso“ and Torquato Tasso „Gerusalemme liberata“; Carlo Goldoni, „La locandiera“;„Ugo Foscolo, „Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis“; Alessandro Manzoni, „I promessi sposi“; Giovanni Verga, Short stories and „I Malavoglia“.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- will have a broad overview of treated masterpieces in the historical context of their birth and later reception and profound knowledge of these works in some specific theoretical and/or cultural profile;
- will be able to analyse extracts from the works under discussion and write an analytical essay on a topic agreed upon with the lecturer.

Teacher

Ülar Ploom

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