Literary Mindscapes
(objectives)
Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to 1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation; 2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language; 3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective; 4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts; 5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Literary mindscapes is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It enables students to consolidate their competence in the field of Anglophone literatures; it also allows them to further enhance their theoretical and methodological skills in order to achieve a thoroughly independent critical assessment in the philological analysis of literary texts and/or phenomena, also with reference to the processes of transcultural translation. At the end of the module students will be able to: apply their knowledge to the analysis of literary texts and/or phenomena; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content; analyse the processes of transcultural translation.
Requirements: Students must have already taken Literature and Forms.
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Code
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20710479 |
Language
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ENG |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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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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36
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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)
Women, History, and the Postcolonial Nation in South African Poetry
In this course we will examine some (written and/or performed) lyrical texts by South African poets who ‘use’ historical female characters (Krotoa/Eva, Saartjie Baartman, etc.) to discuss and rewrite the symbols of the nation. What role do women as mothers, wives, lovers, handmaids, warriors, caretakers, mediators, etc. play in the New South Africa's nation-building process? How does the poetry by women about women contest the hypersexualization of the female body as a colonial practice and propose a new idea of history and memory?
(reference books)
Karen Press, Krotoa's Story, Cape Town, Buchu Books, 1990; Toni Stuart, Krotoa-Eva's suite- a cape jazz poem in three movement, 2018 (video); Makosazana Xaba, Tongues of Their Mothers, Scottsville, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008; Diana Ferrus, I’ve Come to Take You Home, Xlibris, 2011.
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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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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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Group: M - Z
Teacher
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CORSO SIMONA
(syllabus)
Island narratives and the rhetoric of nostalgia
In this course we will explore the island trope in a selection of texts, from R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island to Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. In these narratives, the island features at times as a place of adventure, at other times as a theatre where humanity is tested, as a projection of psychotic fantasies, as an artificial paradise, or as a place of violence and squalor. In its latest, astonishing metamorphosis, the island has become a gigantic, floating garbage patch. In this way, islands continue to inspire the imagination of both writers and readers.
(reference books)
Primary texts: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883) David Herbert Lawrence, The Man who Loved Islands (1928) William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954) V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage (1962) Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988) Marianne Wiggins, John Dollar (1999) Films: Lord of the Flies, dir. Peter Brook (1963) (link available on the course’s Team) Cast Away, dir. Robert Zemeckis (2000) Plastic Paradise, dir. Angela Sun (2014).
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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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