Was there an epochal change in the history of Italian society as in other countries of late capitalism in the course of the 20th century? How should scholars name and describe the new cultural landscape? Multidisciplinary perspective with readings in the history of culture, sociology, and literary and art history. Writers include Eco, Calvino, and Tabucchi. In Italian.

We will study authors of modern and postmodern literature (from Praz to Pirandello, from James to Tournier, from Calvino to Tabucchi), to whom the discovery of photography and of its optical and chemical means of reproduction has suggested new thematic subjects and new modes and ways of representation.