(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 II is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literatures" area. It allows students to have a good knowledge and understanding of Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth century English literature, with special attention to intercultural dynamics and the theoretical-methodological debate; it helps students master the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis. At the end of the module, students will reach a good 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 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 representation of the female condition in a selection of texts from Shakespeare to Mary Shelley. Through the analysis of plays, novels, essays, and poems, written by male and female authors from the end of the Sixteenth century to the beginning of the Nineteenth, we will explore the ways in which women have been narrated, and their difficult condition, their voices, their predicament represented. We will watch a selection of film adaptations of some of the texts considered and will investigate what happens to a story when it travels across media.
(reference books)
William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599) (recommended edition: Arden or The Oxford Shakespeare); Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677) (recommended edition: Penguin Classics); Daniel Defoe, Roxana (1724) (recommended edition: Oxford World's Classics) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) (any English edition); Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) (recommended edition: Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics); Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) (recommended edition: Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics); Select poems.
Film: As You Like It, dir. Thea Sharrock (2010) (Shakespeare’s Globe); Mansfield Park, dir. Patricia Rozema (1999); Google Baby, dir. Zippi Brand Frank (2009).
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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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PENNACCHIA MADDALENA
(syllabus)
The course introduces the main historical and literary features of English culture in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Sighteenth centuries through the analytical study of the following texts: 1) William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost 2) Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness 3) John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I) 4) George Etherege, The Man of Mode 4) Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 5) Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
(reference books)
1) William Shakespeare, Pene d'amore perdute con testo a fronte, traduzione di Nemi D'Agostino, Garzanti 2) Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness (http://www.luminarium.org/editions/maskblack.htm) 3) John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I) (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45718/paradise-lost-book-1-1674-version) 4) George Etherege, L'uomo alla moda con testo a fronte, traduzione di Viola Papetti, Rizzoli 4) Alexander Pope, Il ratto del ricciolo con testo a fronte, traduzione di Alessandro Gallenzi, Adelphi 5) Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Oxford World's Classics
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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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