“Subjective” Narrative
S06
Roberto de Lucca
This course will look at two of the most important Italian narrative prose writers of the early 20th century, Italo Svevo and Federigo Tozzi. We will study how both writers, from very different worlds (Svevo from cosmopolitan Trieste and Tozzi from provincial Tuscany), developed narrative structures that incorporated avant-garde ideals of self and society, psychoanalysis and subjectivity. Students will learn to analyze narrative structure and language use in prose fiction and to create outlines toward work on different types of essays (personal and research based) and begin a study of scholarly articles pertaining to subjects suggested by the two writers. Advanced level.