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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : European Languages and Cultures - Italian

Undergraduate Course: Italo Calvino: Four Decades of Renewal (ELCI10006)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course will focus on Italo Calvino's intellectual contribution from 1946 to 1985, with special reference to some of the many literary avenues that he pursued: our choice includes three (short) fantasy novels, one ?traditional? novella, a collection of short stories mixing literature and science, a hypernovel and finally a collection of short stories centred on looking at and describing the world. Calvino?s exciting contribution is a useful stepping stone to other areas of knowledge, from Italian society to French or American contemporary literature. In a mixture of lectures and seminars, our approach to his work will focus mainly on textual analysis and his use of narrative techniques, but also on literary genres, literary movements and their historical context.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed:
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements
Visiting students should enrol on ELCI09005 (Ordinary).
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
To equip students for indepth monographic study of major literary texts while testing a number of theoretical approaches.
Reading List
I. Calvino;
La formica argentina (1952), in Romanzi e Racconti, I, pp. 445-482.
Il cavaliere inesistente (1958), in Romanzi e Racconti, I, pp. 955-1064.
Le città invisibili (1972), in Romanzi e Racconti, II, pp. 357-498.
Palomar (1983), in Romanzi e Racconti, II, pp. 871-979, especially sections 1.1 (¿Palomar sulla spiaggia¿), 2.2 (¿Palomar fa la spesa¿), 2.3 (¿Palomar allo zoo¿), and 3.3 (¿Le meditazioni di Palomar¿).
Saggi (indicated in the programme), in Saggi, 2 voll., ed. by Mario Barenghi (Milano: Mondadori, 1995).
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsDELC Italo Calvino
Contacts
Course organiserDr Giuseppe Episcopo
Tel: (0131 6)50 3645
Email: Giuseppe.Episcopo@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Fiona Jack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
Email: f.jack@ed.ac.uk
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