91497 |
ITAL 201 Intermediate
Italian I |
Anna
Cafaro |
. T . Th . . . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm 1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLINLC 115 OLIN 306 |
FLLC |
This
course intends to reinforce students’ skills in grammar, composition, and
spoken proficiency, through intensive grammar review, conversation practice,
reading/analysis of short texts, writing simple compositions, as well as the
use of magazine articles, video and songs. Students engage in discussion
and must complete compositions and oral reports based on Italian literary texts
and cultural material. Prerequisites: Two semesters of elementary Italian or
Intensive Italian 106 (or the equivalent).
Class size: 18
91498 |
ITAL 230 History of
Italian Theater |
Anna
Cafaro |
. T . Th . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
This course introduces students to the world of
Italian theater from the Renaissance to today. Students are led to a
comprehensive historical overview of Italian theater, its protagonists, and its
fundamental role in the evolution of Italian society. As we will focus on the
development of theater as an independent artistic genre, we will reflect on the
relation between text and its representation, comedy and “comic,” the value of
the written word, the role of improvisation, the variety of theatrical forms in
the 21st cent., and the role of theater itself in our society. Plays of
Commedia dell’Arte, Goldoni, Pirandello, De Filippo, Fo, Maraini, Martinelli
will be studied within their historical, social and aesthetic contexts.
Readings/course work in Italian. Class
size: 15
91854 |
LIT 3205 Dante &
the Modern Imagination |
Joseph
Luzzi |
. . W . . |
10:10 - 12:30 pm |
HEG 300 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed: Italian; Medieval Studies This new course will explore the
fascinating reception of Dante's Divine Comedy over the centuries in
multiple literary traditions, national cultures, and artistic media. We will
spend the first few weeks of the course developing a reading of Dante's epic
poem, then trace its presence in such phenomena as: Petrarch and Boccaccio's
debates about poetry; Milton's epic imagination; the founding of the American
Dante Society at Longfellow's Harvard; the cinematic Dante of Antonioni and
other auteurs; the “illustrated” Dante from Doré to Rauschenberg; selected
instances of Dante in the non-Western world; even Dante in American pop culture
today. Course/reading in English with option of section/course work in Italian
for qualified students. This course counts
as pre-1800 offering. Class size: 15