ITAL 1080 - LETTERATURA DI VIAGGIO: MOBILITIES IN ITALIAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the ways in which Italian culture, literature, and society have been shaped by phenomena of travel, across a broad chronological arc from the Middle Ages to the present day. The thematic approach of the course will take a broad view of the theme of travel, investigating many different forms of human mobility that have impacted Italian culture, including migration, commerce, pilgrimage and tourism. Texts offering information relating to the real travels of historical individuals (such as Marco Polo and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi) will sharpen our understanding of the routes and forces that drew travelers between Italy and distant lands in different periods. We will study travel as a central theme in literary fictions, from the Mediterranean travels recounted in Boccaccio’s ~Decameron~ to Italo Calvino’s imaginative reworkings of Marco Polo in ~Le citta invisibili~. This course is taught in Italian.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: any two of the following courses: ITAL 0110, 0111, 0113, 0114, 0115, 0117, 0119
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)

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