<p>Lecture, three hours. Open to undergraduate students with consent of instructor. Conspicuous diversity animating Italian society articulated through class, gender, and ethnolinguistic groups to be studied across range of texts, some selected from literary canon, but others purely oral (tales, songs, proverbs, cures and curses, secular and ritual drama). S/U or letter grading.</p>

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Alternative Perspectives in Italian Culture: Studies of Folk Tradition in Italian Literature

ITALIAN 260A

4 units