(objectives)
AIMS: • provide students with a comprehensive understanding of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature 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 Anglo-American 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 into Italian and to the analysis of rewritings and adaptations of literary texts 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 intercultural contexts.
Pre-requisite: Anglo-American Literatures I; English Language and Translation I
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