Università Roma Tre

AIMS:
• provide students with a broad understanding of English literature of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries with a specific focus on intercultural and transcultural dynamics and special attention to the theoretical and methodological debates;
• develop students’ close reading skills (upper-intermediate level) applied to English literary texts (in the original language) through the use of tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis in order to promote an independent approach to critical interpretation;
• stimulate students to apply the acquired skills to translation, rewriting and adaptation into Italian also in a transmedial context (upper-intermediate level).
• Develop upper-intermediate communication skills for the processing and transmission of topics related to the field of study in different intercultural contexts, both academic and non-academic.

Pre-requisite: English Literature I; English Language and Translation I