The course will examine the typology of short writing in the second half of the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the work of Juan Rodolfo Wilcock and its interrelationship with the European and South American literary tradition.
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Lo stereoscopio dei solitari, Adelphi;

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, Adelphi;

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Il libro dei mostri, Adelphi;

L'eternità immutabile. Studi su Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2020;

Le forme brevi della narrativa, a cura di Elisabetta Menetti, Roma, Carocci, 2019.

The teaching contributes to the learning objectives of the Course of Study in Philology, linguistics and literary traditions, aiming to consolidate and broaden the hermeneutic knowledge and methodologies acquired during the 3 year course; special attention will be paid to developing professional skills linked to the fields of publishing, advertising and the teaching of literary modernity.
Skills.
On completion of the course students should be able to reconstruct the picture of the 20th century critical tradition and how it is subdivided with regard to formulation of multiple hypotheses of canon.
Independence of Judgement
Students should acquire sufficient abilities to analyse 19th – 20th century literary texts by applying the main critical methodologies that have arisen in the course of modernity.
Communications Skills
Students must be able to expound, clearly and in correct terminology, the things they have learnt in relation to the themes and critical methodologies inherent to literary modernity in Italy.
The course is intended to the students of the first year of the Master in Degree in Filologia, linguistica e tradizioni letterarie and requires knowledge of of literary modernity in its multiple aspects.
Conventional. 42 hours of teacher up front lessons; there will also be seminars and lectures by scholars from Italian, European and American universities.
If you have any questions, please contact the teacher at andrea.gialloreto@unich.it.
Oral exam with final marks.
The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students' skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.