(objectives)
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
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Code
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20710232 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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12
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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L-LIN/10
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Contact Hours
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72
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Group: A - L
Teacher
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CORSO SIMONA
(syllabus)
This course explores the many ways in which 'the other', 'the savage', 'the barbarian' has been narrated by English writers from the beginning of the 17th to the end of the 18th century. Through the analysis of William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611), Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688), Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the autobiographical The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), we will explore the complex fascination-revulsion with the figure of the 'other from us', while looking at the rhetorical, ideological and literary strategies with which for centuries writers have been constructing and deconstructing figures of 'savages', good or evil, distant or close, outside or inside us.
(reference books)
Primary texts: William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611) (Arden or Penguin) Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688) (any English edition) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) (any English edition) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) (any English edition) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) (any English edition).
Films: tba
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Group: M - Z
Teacher
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PENNACCHIA MADDALENA
(syllabus)
Classical models and forms of innovation in English Literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
(reference books)
Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander; Philip Sidney Astrophil and Stella; William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra; John Dryden, All for love; Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock; Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books Samuel Richardson, Pamela Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
P. Bertinetti (a cura di), Storia della letteratura inglese -Dalle origini al Settecento, vol. 1, Einaudi: Torino, 2000.
Further texts will be available on the teacher's website (Materiali didattici 2018/19) from the second semester on.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Traditional
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not mandatory
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