Italian 362PS - Love Sex Violence in Ital Lit.

This course will explore the nature and the politics of love, sex and violence in Italian literature and culture as described by male and female authors.Beginning with the Roman poet Ovid, we will proceed to such authors as Lidia Ravera, Marco Lombardo Radice, Franca Rame, Elsa Morante, Anna Banti, Annie Vivanti, Vincenzo Cerami. In addition to viewing films by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lina Wertmuller, we will also examine the work of the 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi in the context of her sensational rape trial.