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Category Archives: Fall
Bolognese Art in Dialogue with Europe: from the Reinassance to the Enlightenment
History of Art
Syllabus
Prof. Vera Fortunati
The city of Bologna, seat of an ancient and famous university and from 1506 onward the second most important city in the Papal States, was in constant contact with all the important cultural centers of Europe. It was also both a center and a crossroads for artistic movements. This course focuses on the most significant artistic movements of the 16th and 17th centuries,
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Behind the scenes
Theatre
Syllabus
Prof. Gabriele Marchesini
This course takes a general approach to acting styles, providing a direct and in-depth involvement with the Italian language as it mediates between the theory and the practice of theatrical literature, a literature conceived as a recited art rather than as one to be read. This way, we will approach the theatre as protagonists, rather than simply practising our knowledge of another language and culture.
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The Pathos of the body in Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
Italian Literature
Syllabus
Prof. Vanessa Pietrantonio
In the first half of the 19th century, some European writers opted to avoid realistic descriptions in favor of images that were hallucinatory, ambiguous, murky, vague, or misshapen. Such images were often housed in infinite or incomplete spaces, in places where horrors were depicted by grotesque figures, painful grimaces, or decomposing bodies.
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Italy’s Path in the World Today. From the Rebirth of Democracy to the Global Economic Crisis: 1945-2012
History
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Prof. Alberto Preti
In 1945 Italy was a predominantly agricultural society recovering from twenty years of dictatorship and a military defeat that had devastated the country and altered the collective identity of the Italian people. In the decades that followed the population of Italy saw their country undergo a rapid period of industrialization, urbanization, and modernization as well as the establishment of a democratic Republic that quickly took root.
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Eating Pages. The pleasures of the textand the pleasures of the palate
Women’s Studies
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Prof. Beatrice Collina
The pleasures of the text and the pleasures of the palate blend together, as if writing and feeding expressed analogous biological needs. Food takes on a symbolic role and a metaphorical meaning of far-reaching The pleasures of the text and the pleasures of the palate blend together, as if writing and feeding expressed analogous biological needs.
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