(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)
In this course we will examine a selection of texts (poetry and novels) from Romanticism to contemporaneity with a view to outlining the notions of 'centre' and 'margin(s)' as a system of binary relations that can and/or cannot be contested. In particular, the course will focus on how these notions inform issues of space and gender.
(reference books)
Selection of poems by William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, P. B. Shelley; Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (any unabridged edition in English) Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (any unabridged edition in English) Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette (any unabridged edition in English) Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots (any unabridged edition in English)
THIS SELECTION MAY CHANGE BEFORE THE COURSE BEGINS
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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)
Title: “The power of stories: between biography, memory and parody”. Description: The course focuses on some texts from the early 19th century to the first decade of the 2000s that foreground the modes and power of stories and books. The texts taken into consideration range from the parodic forms of literary writing and genres found in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Samuel Beckett’s reflection on the impossibility of disposing of (self)narrative in the radio play Embers, to the exaltation of the empathic and ethical function of narration in Douglas Coupland’s futuristic novel Generation A.
(reference books)
Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey" (1803), any edition. Virginia Woolf, "Orlando" (1928), any edition. Samuel Beckett, "Embers" (1959), available online: https://evergreenreview.com/read/embers-a-play-for-radio/. Douglas Coupland, "Generation A" (2009), Windmill Books, 2010.
Audio recordings will be available on the Moodle.
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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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