Theory and history of literature, comparative literature

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Fabio Danelon
Full Professor
Edoardo Ferrarini
Associate Professor
Fabio Forner
Associate Professor
Massimo Natale
Associate Professor
Giuseppe Sandrini
Associate Professor
Corrado Viola
Full Professor
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Topic People Description
Contemporary writers' archives Giuseppe Sandrini
Researches on the autobiography (diaries, letters) and on the archives of 20th century writers like Giani Stuparich, Giovanni Comisso, Goffredo Parise
Dante and Dante’s study in the 20th Century Corrado Viola
Reception and fortunes of Dante in the literature and critical studies of the 20th Century (in particular Mario Apollonio)
Forms and themes in Italian tragic tradition Massimo Natale
Forms and themes in Italian tragic tradition, from Tasso to Manzoni
Ancient Culture and Literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature Massimo Natale
The reception of Greek and Latin Literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, from Tasso to Zanzotto
Giacomo Leopardi Massimo Natale
Study of works, thought and heritage of Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi, Manzoni and their literary legacy Giuseppe Sandrini
Studies on the heritage of Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni in European and Italian 20th century literature
Italian Literature Lexicography Corrado Viola
Lexical examinations and inventories of Italian literature
Literature and Landscape Corrado Viola
Literature and Mountain. Poetry of the sublime Alpine between 18th and 20th Century
Literature and landscape Giuseppe Sandrini
Studies on the relations between writers and Italian nature and landscape; travel literature and journeys in Italy
Letteratura italiana Fabio Forner
Storia della letteratura italiana, con particolare attenzione alla letteratura dei secoli XIV, XV, XVI e XVIII. Il genere epistolare costituisce un oggetto precipuo di ricerca.
Italian literature. Thematic criticism Fabio Danelon
Representation and image of the family and domestic interior in Italian literary tradition
Italian literature of the nineteenth century Fabio Danelon
Narrative, critique and literary historiography. He dedicates particular attention, as regards criticism and literary historiography, to the works of Giovita Scalvini, Paolo Emiliani Giudici, Cesare Cantù, Luigi Settembrini. For the narrative, and for the overall cultural role, he focuses especially on the work and the figure of Alessandro Manzoni and Niccolò Tommaseo.
19th and 20th Century Italian Literature Corrado Viola
Neoclassical and protoromantic literature (especially Foscolo and Pindemonte); Poetry of the Risorgimento (above all C. Betteloni); Narrative (Manzoni, Giacosa, Salgari, Mancinelli etc.)
Italian literature of the twentieth century Fabio Danelon
Narrative and literary criticism of the Italian twentieth century. He dedicates particular attention, among others, to the narrative works of Pirandello and Svevo; he is interested in the figures of some Italian literary critics of the late twentieth century (Emilio Bigi, Luigi Baldacci); he studies the literary production of Pier Paolo Pasolini above all in relation with the Italian literary tradition.
17th-18th Century Italian Literature Corrado Viola
Epistolography, criticism, erudition, journalism and literary historiography, with particular attention to the edition and philological care of texts, especially unpublished, and documents, especially letters, of the principal authors (Muratori, Maffei, Parini, Bettinelli, Metastasio, Tiraboschi, Cesarotti, Alfieri, etc.); The Academy of Arcadia; The Republic of letters in the 17th-18th Century between national space and European dimension
Italian literature of the eighteenth century Fabio Danelon
Literature and literary historiography of the Italian eighteenth century, with particular attention to the edition of the writings, especially unpublished, and of the correspondence of Gianmaria Mazzuchelli.
Medieval Latin Literature Antonio De Prisco
Edoardo Ferrarini
Genres, authors and texts of Medieval Latin Literature (from the VI to the XIV century)
Italian 20th century poetry Massimo Natale
Forms and themes in Italian 20th century poetry, with particular attention to Andrea Zanzotto, and to Mario Luzi, Vittorio Sereni, Fernando Bandini
Italian poets of the 20th century Giuseppe Sandrini
Forms and themes in Italian 20th century poetry, with particular attention to Dino Campana, Umberto Saba, Vittorio Sereni e Andrea Zanzotto
Ancient literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian literature Giuseppe Sandrini
Studies on the reception of Greek and Latin literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian literature, with particular attention to Leopardi and 20th century writers
History of Italian literature Corrado Viola
History of Italian literature from the Origins to 21th Century, with particular attention to the 16th-20th Centuries, to the forms of the literary genres, to the processes of defining literary canon, to the relations with the other literary traditions

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