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| Unit name |
Italian Travellers' Tales |
| Unit code |
ITAL30035 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
H/6
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Professor. Burdett |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department |
Department of Italian |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
The unit introduces students to some recent theoretical work on the implications of travel. The unit will then focus on a series of texts all centrally concerned with travel but divided thematically into three sections. The first section looks at visions of North Africa in the 1930s and 1990s. The second section looks at texts that offer radically different perceptions of Europe. The third section will examine the different representations of India offered by Sandra Petrignani and Antonio Tabucchi.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Successful students will:
- be knowledgable about a significant cultural, historical or linguistic subject related to the language they are studying;
- will have advanced skills in the selection and synthesis of relevant material;
- be able to evaluate and analyse relevant material from a significant body of source materials, usually in a foreign language, at an advanced level;
- be able to respond to questions or problems by presenting their independent judgements in an appropriate style and at an advanced level of complexity;
- be able to transfer these skills to other working environments, including postgraduate study.
Teaching Information
Two seminar hours per week
Assessment Information
One assessed essay (3,000 words) (50%), one assessed commentary (1,500 words) (25%) and one assessed class presentation (15 mins) (25%).
Reading and References
- Film: Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky (1990).
- Umberto Eco, Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality (London: Minerva, 1995).
- Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili (Turin: Einaudi, 1972).
- Leonardo Sciascia, Ore di Spagna (Milan: Compiani, 2000). First published 1988.
- Sandra Petrignani, Ultima India (Milan: Baldini & Castoldi ,1996).
- Antonio Tabucchi, Notturno indiano (Turin: SEI, 1996).
