Undergraduate Course: Natalia Ginzburg: Home-made (Ordinary) (ELCI09016)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Novelist, playwright, translator, editor, essayist, journalist and pamphleteer: between her birth in 1916 and her death in 1991, Natalia Ginzburg was known by four different surnames; married twice; had five children; lived in different regions in Italy; was persecuted as a Jew during the war and became a Catholic after it; took up, and later renounced, membership of the Communist party and became a Member of Parliament. Ginzburg, the daughter of a prestigious scientist and the mother of Italy¿s most famous living historian, always sat in the front seat of history - despite her self-deprecating attitude - whether in the antifascist milieu in which she grew up or in her editorial role at Einaudi. This course will investigate how her original and unique literary contribution is at the heart of Italian cultural history of the twentieth century and can only now begin to achieve the recognition it deserves. The course is devoted to Natalia Ginzburg's intellectual contribution from 1940 to 1991, with special reference to some of the many literary avenues that she pursued: our choice includes three novels, two novellas, one short story, various essays and three plays. Ginzburg's unique prose writing provides an introduction to other areas of knowledge, from Italian society to French and English literature and Holocaust Studies. In a mixture of lectures and seminars, our approach to her work will focus mainly on textual analysis and her use of narrative techniques, but also on literary genres, literary movements, cultural changes and their historical context. |
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| Pre-requisites | None |
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Learning Outcomes
| To equip students for indepth monographic study of major literary texts while testing a number of theoretical approaches.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Davide Messina
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Course secretary | Miss Fiona Jack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
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