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116-078 Italian Special Subject | |
Note | This subject will be offered dependent on staff availability and sufficient enrolments. Students are advised to check with the head of the Italian Program before the start of semester. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr S Kolsky |
Prerequisites | 37.5 points of Italian at intermediate or Post-VCE level for third year. Admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in Italian. European studies students wishing to enrol in this subject would normally have completed 37.5 points of European studies at second/third year, see Prerequisites. |
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 20th-century Italian novel 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 to 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 class paper of 1000 words and a 3000-word essay for third year, 4000 words for fourth year. |
Prescribed Texts | Materials will be available from the Department.
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