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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Italian

116-362/462 Italian Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Credit Points:

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Coordinator:

Dr S D Kolsky

Prerequisite/s:

Two sequential second-year Italian subjects (33.3 credit points) (3rd year) or admission to Italian Honours school (4th year).

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Up to three hours of lectures and tutorials each week

Objectives:

By the end of the subject, students should have acquired:

  • an understanding of some of the more significant medieval and Renaissance texts written in Italian in their social, political and literary contexts;

  • the skills to carry out stylistic and narrative-oriented analyses of medieval prose;

  • techniques for analysing Renaissance poetry.

Content:

The subject will be concerned with a small number of the 'classics' of Italian medieval and Renaissance literature. A substantial part of the subject will concentrate on a selection of stories from the Decameron. Students will analyse the structures of selected stories and examine concepts of pleasure and sexuality as they relate to the Decameron. The Renaissance segment of the subject will be concerned with the analysis of selected passages from one of the most outstanding narrative poems of the Renaissance, Ariosto's Orlando furioso. This work encapsulates the ethos of the Renaissance in a humorous and ironical tone.

Assessment:

Written assignments totalling not more than 5000 words (3rd year) / 6000 words (4th year).

Prescribed Texts:

See Italian Studies Course Handbook for details.

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