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AMBROSINI RICCARDO
(syllabus)
The texts we will study will allow us to to trace the evolution of the main poetica and narrative form which have dominated English literature in the XIX and XX centuries. The narrative texts are meant to create pairs that will illustrate contrasts and similarities among these various forms: Wuthering Heights vs. Jane Eyre - “The Tale” vs. “The Mark on the Wall” - The Prime of Miss Brodie vs. Wide Sargasso Sea; each one of these texts will be used to set up a perspective from which to study contemporary British culture.
The first hour will be devoted to fiction, the second to poetry.
(reference books)
Novels and Short Stories
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847 (novel)
- R. L. Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 (novella)
- Joseph Conrad, “The Tale”, 1917 (short short story )
- Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”, 1917 (short short story)
- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Brodie, 1961 (short novel)
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966 (novel)
- Hanif Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic", 1994 (short story)
Reading List:
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847 (novel)
- E. M. Forster, Passage to India, 1924 (novel)
Poetry
William Wordsworth, “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” (1798), “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”;
P. B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (1819);
John Keats, “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816), “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820);
Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” (1813), “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” (1824);
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43” (1846);
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (1867);
G. M. Hopkins, “The Windhover” (1877);
Rudyard Kipling, “If—” (1895);
Thomas Hardy, “The Convergence of the Twain” (1912);
Thomas Stearns Eliot, “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” (1915);
William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916” (1921), “Sailing to Byzantium” (1928);
W. H. Auden, “As I Walked Out One Evening” (1940);
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (1951);
Derek Walcott, “Love After Love” (1976), “The Season of Phantasmal Peace” (1981)
Bibliography
Andrew Sanders, Storia della letteratura inglese dal XIX secolo al postmoderno, a cura di Anna Anzi, Mondadori, Milano, 2000.
Marcello Pagnini (a cura di), Il Romanticismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 1986.
Gianni Cianci (a cura di), Il Modernismo, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Jack Stillinger (ed.), Twentieth century interpretations of Keats's Odes : a collection of critical essays, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1968
Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, 1990.
Richard Ambrosini, “Lo specchio come psiche in The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde di R. L. Stevenson”. In Agostino Lombardo (a cura di). Gioco di specchi: Saggi sull’uso letterario dell’immagine dello specchio. Bulzoni, Roma, 1999, pp. 271-87.
Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism", Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1(Autumn, 1985), pp.243-261.
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