Scientific techniques are increasingly used to characterise archaeological materials. This information may then be used to address questions related to...

Laboratory and Instrumental Skills in Archaeological Science (ARCL0170)

MEDICAL IMAGING|MODELS OF DISEASE|BIOMEDICAL IMAGING|IMAGING OF DISEASE

This module will explore how imaging methods are developed and applied to preclinical models of disease. This module will firstly introduce animal models of...

Translational Biomedical Imaging of Disease and Therapy I (MEDC0060)

This module will explore how imaging methods are developed and applied to preclinical models of disease. This module will firstly introduce animal models of disease and how they are used to advance clinical research, and will then focus on the application of preclinical imaging to specific disease models and how this can be used to improve understanding of the underlying mechanisms of pathology. A journal club focusing on preclinical imaging applications in disease models will run in tandem with lectures and will include unassessed, but compulsory presentations.

The module will map the literary landscape of contemporary Italy by focusing on four novels that provoked powerful and polarizing responses. These literary...

The Contemporary Italian Novel: The Scandals of Literature (ITAL0027)

The module will map the literary landscape of contemporary Italy by focusing on four novels that provoked powerful and polarizing responses. These literary causes célèbres offer a prism through which to analyse the refracting political stakes of aesthetic continuity and rupture. We begin with a reading of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s modernist masterpiece Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, a key point of reference in post-war debates about the novel. Less controversial than exceptional, Quer pasticciaccio earned the admiration of writers as antithetical (and antagonistic) as Alberto Moravia and Giorgio Manganelli. Other literary controversies—involving the reception of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il gattopardo, Elsa Morante’s La storia, and Elena Ferrante’s L’amica geniale—will prompt discussions about the ideological work done by literature, whether through the content or the form. We will ask, with critics, polemicists, and manifesto-writers: Are plot-driven narratives necessarily escapist? Does emotional investment preclude rigorous reading and aesthetic appreciation of a work of literature? Can a text narrated from the perspective of an aristocrat with little interest in the lower classes ever awaken class consciousness? How does our knowledge of biographical detail about an author affect the way we read a work of literature?  

In addition to the four novels named above, lectures will cover realism, experimentalism, the neo-avant-garde, and New Italian Epic, as well as works by Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Carla Lonzi, Luigi Malerba, Giorgio Manganelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luisa Passerini, Roberto Saviano, and Igiaba Scego.  

 

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of this final-year module students will have developed advanced knowledge of key literary debates of post-war Italy. They will have gained proficiency as readers of literary fiction and criticism in Italian and will have improved their skills in academic research and writing. 

 