Identity in Modern Italian Fiction

Subject Code: 
ITALLIT
Course Number: 
285
Description: 

The quest for a modern identity in the 20th-century Italian novel. The construction of subjectivity as it relates to changes brought about by modernity in Italy, such as mass culture, nationalism, industrialization, feminism, war, secularization, migration, and ethnic diversity. Fiction by Svevo, Pirandello, Calvino, Banti, and Tabucchi. In Italian.

Instructor: 
Laura Wittman
Term: 
Win
Academic Year: 
2011-12
Day/Time: 
W 2:15p-5:05p