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The course offers an overview of Italian literary culture during the years of the fascist regime with particular emphasis on low-brow, best-selling genres. Examples of colonial, didactic, sentimental, `erotic?, and propaganda literature will presented as tools of political propaganda and social indoctrination, alongside examples of fascist cinema, architecture, and visual arts. Against the backdrop of the historical situation in Italy and in Europe during the Ventennio, the close analysis `between the lines?

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This course will approach the rich Mediterranean tapestry by focusing on connections among the various cultures of the Mediterranean basin. Emphases on art/architecture, religion, language, literature, environmental practices, commerce, and food, from a historical perspective. Examples will be taken chiefly from Sicily and Southern Italy, North Africa, Venice, Turkey (Constantinople) and the Middle East, Spain, and France; from the medieval period to more recent colonial occupations and contemporary migrations. Course taught in English.

This course's main goals are articulated around one overarching activity: the comprehension of human experience as reflected in Italian literary documents of the pre-modern period, ca. 1225-1650, and the application of that knowledge to contemporary issues. Although the points of comparison are not necessarily direct (we start with Aristotle rather than modern philosophers), all the questions addressed are of vital interest to anyone who asks the fundamental philosophical questions of life. Who am I? What am I doing here? How should I live? and so on.

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