Course teached as: - LETTERATURA INGLESE 1 (12 CFU) 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES Curriculum STUDI LINGUISTICI, LETTERARI E INTERCULTURALI
Teaching Language - Last names M-Z
Italian
Course Content - Last names M-Z
The course will focus on the major authors, periods and genres in English literary culture in their historical contexts. Relevant analytical and interpretative strategies are introduced to enable students to develop a clear critical thinking and an understanding of a wide range of literary writing in English, from the 20th century to the 21st century.
A) Texts (reading should include: prefaces, introductions, notes and afterwords)
J. JOYCE, Dubliners, ed. J. Johnson Brown, Oxford, OUP, 2000.
T.S. ELIOT, La terra desolata, a cura di A. Serpieri, Milano, BUR 1985.
E.M. FORSTER, A Passage to India, ed. by Oliver Stallybrass, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2005.
M. LOWRY, Under the Volcano, intr. by S. Spender, New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, with an afterword by William T. Vollmann).
* E.A. POE, “Twice-Told Tales A Review” (1842), in Essays and Reviews, New York, The Library of America, 1984, pp. 569-77.
* V. WOOLF, “Modern Fiction (1919/1925)”, in A Modernist Reader. Modernism in England 1910-1930, ed. by P. Faulkner, London, B.T. Batsford, 1986, pp. 105-112.
* T.S. ELIOT, “Ulysses: Order and Myth” (1923), in A Modernist Reader. Modernism in England 1910-1930, ed. by P. Faulkner, London, B.T. Batsford, 1986, pp. 100-104.
* E. POUND, “In a Station of the Metro”, “L’Art”, “Ts’ai Chi’h”, “Alba” (in fotocopia)
B) CRITICISM:
P. Bertinetti, a cura di, Storia della letteratura inglese, vol. 2, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 164-415 (saggi di Cianci; Splendore e Bertinetti). Il volume è disponibile presso la Biblioteca di Facoltà: segnatura LTCOLL IT 491 / 60.
F. Frigerio, Modernismo e Modernità. Per un ritratto della letteratura inglese 1900-1940, Torino, Einaudi 2014, pp. 5-97.
* O. De Zordo, “Malcolm Lowry e la ri-scrittura del Modernismo”, in G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991, pp. 544-558.
*Peter Childs, “A Passage to India”, and Randall Stevenson, “Forster and Modernism”, The Cambridge Comapanion to E.M.Forster, ed. by David Bradshow, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007, pp. 188-208, pp. 209-222.
*J. M. Garrison, “Dubliners: Portraits of the Artist as a Narrator”, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Spring, 1975), pp. 226-240.
* F. Gozzi, “La rottura dei codici: il linguaggio protagonista”, in G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991, pp. 290- 313.
*P. A. McCarthy, “Lowry's Forest of Symbols: Reading in Under the Volcano”, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer, 1994), pp. 55-72
* G. Melchiori, Joyce: il mestiere dello scrittore, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, pp. 78-88.
C) REFERENCE TEXTS:
G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991.
F. Marenco, a cura di, Storia della civiltà letteraria inglese, vol. 3: “Il ‘Moderno’ dopoguerra e Postmoderno. Le letterature di lingua inglese”, Torino, UTET, 1996
Learning Objectives - Last names M-Z
The course (72 hours) will focus on the study of 20th and 21st century
literature in English. Aims of the course:
a. to introduce students to different literary genres;
b. to familiarize students with the critical instruments required for the
analysis of literary texts;
c. to enable students to develop a critical consciousness and an
awareness of critical and culture theory through detailed analyses of
some the most representative texts of literatures in English of the last two centuries.
Prerequisites - Last names M-Z
ONLY students who have passed the Lingua Inglese 1 exam can sit for the Letteratura inglese 1 exam. The Lingua Inglese 1 final mark must be recorded on the Student's libretto BEFORE taking the Literature exam.
Teaching Methods - Last names M-Z
lectures and seminars
Further information - Last names M-Z
Students will be divided into 2 groups:
Group one: Students studying Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Slavonic Languages, Nordic Languages (Prof. Donatella Pallotti)
Group two: Students studying French, German, Spanish, Turkish, German, Finnish, Italo- Hungarian studies (Prof. Fiorenzo Fantaccini).
Further information will be given at the beginning of the course.
Type of Assessment - Last names M-Z
The exam will be oral. The three exam questions will deal with these topics:
1 The history of anglophone literatures and cultures (British and Post-colonial);
2 Specific themes and issues in XXth and XXIst century literatures and cultures in English;
3 The key texts included in the syllabus.
Students will have to demonstrate their ability to analyze and critically evaluate the primary texts included in the reading list, and to place them within their contexts of production and reception.
The test will be considered passed if the candidates demonstrate adequate knowledge in 1,2,3.
The exam aims to assess:
- The knowledge of the basic concepts in the history of anglophone literatures and cultures (British and Post-colonial);
- The ability to describe and place literary phenomena within their contexts of production and reception;
- The ability to read and comment upon all the texts included in the reading list with a thorough command of methodological and theoretical tools;
- The ability to properly use formal and critical terminology.
Course program - Last names M-Z
READING LIST
A) Key Texts: (reading should include: prefaces, introductions, notes and afterwords)
J. JOYCE, Dubliners, ed. J. Johnson Brown, Oxford, OUP, 2000.
T.S. ELIOT, La terra desolata, a cura di A. Serpieri, Milano, BUR 1985.
E.M. FORSTER, A Passage to India, ed. by Oliver Stallybrass, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2005.
M. LOWRY, Under the Volcano, intr. by S. Spender, New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, with an afterword by William T. Vollmann).
* E.A. POE, “Twice-Told Tales A Review” (1842), in Essays and Reviews, New York, The Library of America, 1984, pp. 569-77.
* V. WOOLF, “Modern Fiction (1919/1925)”, in A Modernist Reader. Modernism in England 1910-1930, ed. by P. Faulkner, London, B.T. Batsford, 1986, pp. 105-112.
* T.S. ELIOT, “Ulysses: Order and Myth” (1923), in A Modernist Reader. Modernism in England 1910-1930, ed. by P. Faulkner, London, B.T. Batsford, 1986, pp. 100-104.
* E. POUND, “In a Station of the Metro”, “L’Art”, “Ts’ai Chi’h”, “Alba” (in fotocopia)
B) CRITICISM:
P. Bertinetti, a cura di, Storia della letteratura inglese, vol. 2, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 164-415 (saggi di Cianci; Splendore e Bertinetti).
F. Frigerio, Modernismo e Modernità. Per un ritratto della letteratura inglese 1900-1940, Torino, Einaudi 2014, pp. 5-97.
* O. De Zordo, “Malcolm Lowry e la ri-scrittura del Modernismo”, in G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991, pp. 544-558.
*Peter Childs, “A Passage to India”, and Randall Stevenson, “Forster and Modernism”, The Cambridge Comapanion to E.M.Forster, ed. by David Bradshow, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007, pp. 188-208, pp. 209-222.
*J. M. Garrison, “Dubliners: Portraits of the Artist as a Narrator”, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Spring, 1975), pp. 226-240.
* F. Gozzi, “La rottura dei codici: il linguaggio protagonista”, in G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991, pp. 290- 313.
*P. A. McCarthy, “Lowry's Forest of Symbols: Reading in Under the Volcano”, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer, 1994), pp. 55-72
* G. Melchiori, Joyce: il mestiere dello scrittore, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, pp. 78-88.
C) Reference texts:
G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991.
F. Marenco, a cura di, Storia della civiltà letteraria inglese, vol. 3: “Il ‘Moderno’ dopoguerra e Postmoderno. Le letterature di lingua inglese”, Torino, UTET, 1996