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 twentieth-century literary writing in English.
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.
R. BROOKE, "The Soldier".
T.S. ELIOT, La terra desolata, a cura di A. Serpieri, Milano, BUR 1985.
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.
J. FOWLES, The Collector, London, Vintage Books, 2009.
J. JOYCE, Dubliners, ed. J. Johnson Brown, Oxford, OUP, 2000.
W. OWEN, "Dulce et Decorum Est".
E.A. POE, “Twice-Told Tales A Review” (1842), in Essays and Reviews, New York, The Library of America, 1984, pp. 569-77.
E. POUND, "In a Station of the Metro", "L'Art", "Tsai Chi'h", "Alba".
V. WOOLF, “An Unwritten Novel”, “The Mark on the Wall”, “Kew Gardens”, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street”, in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, ed. S. Dick, San Diego, CA, Mariner Books, 1989 (second edition).
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.
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 A-L
The course (72 hours) will focus on the study of 20th 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 twentieth-century literatures in English.
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 A-L
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 in the student's career BEFORE taking the Literature exam. The exam of Letteratura Inglese 1 must be taken BEFORE Letteratura Inglese 2.
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 A-L
lectures and seminars
Teaching Methods - Last names M-Z
lectures and seminars
Further information - Last names A-L
Students will be divided into 2 groups:
Group one: Students whose surnames start with A-L (Prof. Donatella Pallotti).
Group two: Students whose surnames start with A-L (Prof. Fiorenzo Fantaccini)-
Full-time students: A 75% course attendance is compulsory. Students who miss 25% of lectures are deemed to have not completed the attendance requirement and therefore cannot take the exam. Exemption from attendance may be granted under exceptional circumstances. Supporting documentation may be required.
Part-time students are exempted from compulsory attendance.
The course takes place in the first semester. Further information will be given at the beginning of the course.
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 A-L
Oral exam. The exam will test students knowledge of:
1. The history of anglophone literatures and cultures (British and Post-colonial);
2. Specific issues and themes in 20th- and 21st- century British literature;
3. The key texts and critical literature included in the reading list.
Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and critically evaluate the key 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 key 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 of close reading and appreciation of all the texts included in te reading list as well as a thorough command of methodological and theoretical tools;
- The ability to use formal and critical terminology.
Students should be able to engage in a critical discussion on the themes developed during the course, showing knowledge and understanding of ideas, arguments and points of view. They should be able to express themselves clearly and confidently using appropriate constructs and consistent register.
Grades are given on the basis of 30 points. Points are awarded if students are able to
1) describe form and contents of the texts studied,
2) understand, summarize and propose critical readings of those texts,
3) elaborate personal judgements that are solidly grounded on the text and/or secondary literature,
4) use an appropriate register.
Nos. 1 and 4 are essential in order to obtain the minimum passing grade (18/30); higher evaluations depend on students' knowledge about the contents of the course and the critical literature as well as the mastery of the skills above mentioned.
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 A-L
The course introduces students to the world of literatures in English, through detailed analyses of some the most representative texts of the 20th century. Particular attention will be paid to the development of literary genres, which will be considered in their historical, cultural and stylistic aspects. In order to enable students to develop a critical consciousness, the course will examine the basic mechanisms of literature’s formal elements and introduce the main critical instruments for the analysis of literary texts.
READING LIST (12 CFU)
A) Key Texts: (reading should include prefaces, introductions, notes and afterwords)
R. BROOKE, "The Soldier"
T.S. ELIOT, La terra desolata, a cura di A. Serpieri, Milano, BUR 1985.
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.
J. FOWLES, The Collector, London, Vintage Books, 2009.
J. JOYCE, Dubliners, ed. J. Johnson Brown, Oxford, OUP, 2000.
W. OWEN, "Dulce et Decorum Est".
E.A. POE, “Twice-Told Tales A Review” (1842), in Essays and Reviews, New York, The Library of America, 1984, pp. 569-77.
E. POUND, "In a Station of the Metro", "L'Art", "Tsai Chi'h", "Alba".
V. WOOLF, “An Unwritten Novel”, “The Mark on the Wall”, “Kew Gardens”, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street”, in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, ed. S. Dick, San Diego, CA, Mariner Books, 1989 (second edition).
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.
B) Background Reading
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 Umanistica: segnatura LTCOLL IT 491 / 60).
* C. Concilio, “L’isotopia dello sguardo in alcuni racconti di Virginia Woolf”, pp.113-124.
*J.M. Garrison, “Dubliners: Portrait of the Artist as a Narrator”, NOVEL: A Forum in Fiction, 3, 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.
* S. Kemp, "Introduction", in V. Woolf, Selected Short Stories, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1993, pp. ix-xxxi.
*S. Loveday, The Romances of John Fowles, Palgrave, Macmillan, 1983, pp. 1-28; 155.156.
* G. Melchiori, Joyce: il mestiere dello scrittore, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, pp. 78-88.
Suggested Further Reading
G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991.
F. Frigerio, Modernismo e Modernità. Per un ritratto della letteratura inglese 1900-1940, Torino, Einuadi, 2014, pp. 5-97.
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.
READING LIST (6 CFU)
A) Key Texts: (reading should include prefaces, introductions, notes and afterwords)
R. BROOKE, "The Soldier"
T.S. ELIOT, La terra desolata, a cura di A. Serpieri, Milano, BUR 1985.
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.
J. JOYCE, Dubliners, ed. J. Johnson Brown, Oxford, OUP, 2000.
W. OWEN, "Dulce et Decorum Est".
E.A. POE, “Twice-Told Tales A Review” (1842), in Essays and Reviews, New York, The Library of America, 1984, pp. 569-77.
E. POUND, "In a Station of the Metro", "L'Art", "Tsai Chi'h", "Alba".
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.
B) Background Reading
P. Bertinetti, a cura di, Storia della letteratura inglese, vol. 2, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 164-415 (saggi di Cianci, Splendore e Bertinetti).
*J.M. Garrison, “Dubliners: Portrait of the Artist as a Narrator”, NOVEL: A Forum in Fiction, 3, 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.
* G. Melchiori, Joyce: il mestiere dello scrittore, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, pp. 78-88.
Suggested Further Reading
G. Cianci, a cura di, Modernismo/Modernismi, Milano, Principato, 1991.
F. Frigerio, Modernismo e Modernità. Per un ritratto della letteratura inglese 1900-1940, Torino, Einuadi, 2014, pp. 5-97.
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.
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