Teacher
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GUARDUCCI MARIA PAOLA
(syllabus)
In this course we will examine a selection of texts (poetry and novels) from Romaticism to contemporaneity with a view to outlining the notion of ‘space’ as a system of relations and as an element connected to freedom, coercion, vulnerability, (de)construction of one’s self, contemplation. The relationship between space (whether public, private, open, closed, domestic, intimate, individual, collective, etc.) and the body will lead us to reflect also upon movement and stillness. What relationship can we detect between characters, narrators, authors and the spaces they inhabit, they cross and/or describe? Can the space highlight, obscure, align and/or compete with other textual elements? What kind of rapport is there in the selected texts between the notions of space and time?
(reference books)
Selection of poems by William Blake (London, Chimney Sweeper I, II), William Wordsworth, (I wandered lonely as a cloud, Composed upon Westminster Bridge), Samuel Taylor Colerigde (Kubla Khan: only for those who DID NOT attend the course), John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn, La Belle Dame sans merci, Bright Star), Emily Brontë (Love is like the wild rose-briar, The night is darkening round me; I'll come when thou are saddest; Long neglect has worn away); George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss; Joseph Conrad, The Shadow Line; Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room; J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood (the above novels must be unabridged editions in English).
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