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116-078 Italian Special Subject: Contemporary Italian Fiction | |
Note | Formerly available as 116-368/468. Students who have completed 116-368/468 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 3rd and 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr S Kolsky |
Prerequisites | Completion of all second year Italian subjects; 37.5 points at either post-beginners or post-VCE sequence for 3rd-year; admission to Honours in Italian for 4th-year. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject will examine a sample of the most significant and interesting prose fiction coming out of Italy in recent times. Students will focus on the Italian novel in the last twenty years or so in order to analyse the effects of the Italian novel tradition and the impact of postmodernism on recent output. The subject will encourage students to analyse the social context of the fiction studied, relating it to developments in Italian society in the postwar period. Students taking this subject will learn to apply contemporary literary theory of specific texts; to evaluate the importance of specific Italian elements in the novels studied and to be able to discuss novels using Italian. |
Assessment | A classpaper of 1000 words, and a 1-hour test, and a 2000-word essay for 3rd year. A classpaper of 1000 words, and a 1-hour test, and a 3000-word essay for 4th year. |
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