ITAL 199. FYS: Italy's Literature in Context.

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ITAL 199
FYS: Italy's Literature in Context.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
  • Winter
  • Given in English
  • Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
  • Maximum 25

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