The course is divided into three parts.
The first part - La koinè ermetica (18 hours, 3 CFU) - is an introduction to critical reading and interpretation of the literary text. Some texts by Mario Luzi from the collections La barca and Avvento notturno will be examined and analysed. The analysis will focus on the metrical aspects, the tropes, the structure of the language of the hermetic poets. The verification of the learning will be carried out by written test at the end of the module.
The second part - Poetry towards prose. The form of the poemetto (12 hours, 2 CFU) - provides an overview of the linguistic and structural transformations that affect Italian poetry between the fifties and sixties, with particular reference to the grafting of colloquial forms, dialogical modules, narrative segments, which hybridize the monolingual compactness of pure poetry and open the poetic discourse to a variety of cultural suggestions (sociology, psychoanalysis, Marxism). The poems La capitale del nord (1959) by Majorino and La ricchezza by Pier Paolo Pasolini will be analyzed with particular attention.
The third part - Luigi Ballerini's poetic work (6 hours, 1 CFU) - is a monographic study of the formal and structural aspects studied in the previous modules, which in this case are applied to the reading and interpretation of a poetic experience, that of Luigi Ballerini, characterized by a lively and original elaboration of the practices of the neo-avant-garde which follows, in the last fifteen years, a recovery of "readability" and "narrativity" in the civil and didactic tension of neo-epic poetry. In particular, the poem Cefalonia will be analyzed.