Course Details
Country:
Italy
Institution:
External - Florence University of the Arts
Course Title:
Neapolitan Novels: Elena Ferrante's Southern Italy
Course Number:
LSSONN350
Course Description:
This course is centered around Ferrante's four-volume work known as The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend (2011), The Story of a New Name (2012), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2013), The Story of the Lost Child (2015). Lectures will investigate the multifaceted universe of a friendship between two women, Lila and Len, from their childhood to adulthood. It also aims to shed light on the connections between their experiences and Southern Italys complex history and culture from the post-WWII war years to the present. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the course will examine the protagonists effort to break out of the circle of extreme poverty, illiteracy, and male violence. Amongst the themes addressed by this course through the study The Neapolitan Novels, students will explore issues such as post-war settlement in Italy and in the South, Italys Southern Question, the Neapolitan Camorra and its influence on the poor, the
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ITAL 325
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