(objectives)
One of the main aims of this Course of Study is to provide students with advanced knowledge of two foreign literatures related to the two languages of their choice, paying special attention to intercultural and transcultural dynamics. The course also aims at refining their ability to interpret cultural phenomena, using the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis. English Literature III is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literatures" area. It aims at providing the students with a good knowledge of nineteenth and twentieth century English Literature with special attention to intercultural dynamics and the theoretical-methodological debate; it helps students discover the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis at an advanced level. At the end of the module, students will reach an advanced critical ability in the interpretation of exemplary texts in the original language, as well as the necessary competence for oral rewording, translation, rewriting and adaptation in Italian of the texts themselves. They will also be able to re-elaborate and communicate disciplinary knowledge in a specialized and non-specialized intercultural context.
Pre-requisite: English Literature II; English Language and Translation II
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Code
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20710246 |
Language
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ENG |
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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GUARDUCCI MARIA PAOLA
(syllabus)
This course provides a detailed analysis of some of the historical and cultural knots in English literature through the study of texts belonging to different literary genres. The course will focus on topics, contexts and textual strategies with a view to underlining the literary representation of the city of London as a site for passage, conflict, celebration, identity and transformation from the Nineteenth century to nowadays.
(reference books)
William Blake, London, Jerusalem, The Chimney Sweeper (I, II), Holy Thursday (I, II) [online]; William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 [online]; Amy Levy, A London Plane-tree, London in July, A March Day in London [online]; Oscar Wilde, Impression du Matin, Symphony in Yellow [online]; R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [any unabridged English edition] Virginia Woolf, The London Scene; Doris Lessing, “In Defence of the Underground”; “Storms”; “She” (from London Observed) Bernardine Evaristo, Hello Mum
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From to |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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Group: M - Z
Teacher
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ESPOSITO LUCIA
(syllabus)
The course "From Jane Eyre to The Eyre Affair: Expansions and Metamorphoses of the Realist Novel" aims to explore the transformations that, starting from a classic novel like Jane Eyre (1847), took place in the British literary and cultural landscape of the twentieth century. and the early 2000s. The course will cover some fundamental stages in modernist, postcolonial and postmodernist culture and aesthetics, up to the overall reconfiguration of the novel, and of the literary in general, in the age of media convergence.
(reference books)
NOVELS: Bronte Charlotte, "Jane Eyre", London and New York, Norton Critical Editions, 2016 Du Maurier Daphne, "Rebecca", London, Virago Press, 2015 [integral version only for non-attending students] Rhys Jean, "Wide Sargasso Sea", London and New York, Norton Critical Editions, 1999 Fforde Jasper, "The Eyre Affair", London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001
FILMS AND TV SERIES:
Jane Eyre, directed by Robert Stevenson, 1943 "Jane Eyre", TV series directed by Susanna White, BBC production, 2007 "Rebecca", directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From to |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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