IT3022 Romanticising the Nation: Culture and Identity in the Ottocento

Academic year

2023 to 2024 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Availability restrictions

Availability to be confirmed closer to the time.

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Dr C Rossignoli

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Module Staff

Dr C Rossignoli

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Module description

This module examines the momentous changes that radically transformed Italy between 1796 (Napoleon’s occupation of Venice) and 1885 (Italy’s first engagement in colonial activity in Massawa), focusing in particular on the powerful shifts in both cultural and national identity that brought about the birth of the Italian nation, transforming cultural values and linguistic paradigms. The module will consider this tumultuous period of political and cultural change through the study of a number of key texts in both poetry (like Foscolo’s Rime and Leopardi’s Canti) and prose (such as Manzoni’s I promessi sposi and Serao’s Il ventre di Napoli). Contextualised within broad intellectual and political debates, these texts will be examined to consider how the emerging Italian nation attempted to reconceptualise its cultural tradition through the codification of new literary forms.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE ITALIAN HONOURS ADVISER

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1- or 2-hour seminar and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

28

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

122

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.