ENGLISH LITERATURE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ITALIAN LITERATURE, MODERN PHILOLOGY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

B1+/B2 level of English

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FOR CULTURAL MEDIATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

AF code:

40X01334

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination/Viva (English optional)

Assessment of:

- knowledge of the authors and their contexts;
- ability to read critically the literary text in the reading list;
- ability to analyse texts and to do so appropriately, with good critical language competence.

Students are assessed on the basis of their knowledge of the themes and the texts analysed during the course as well as the literary, critical and communicative skills they have acquired.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

Students will develop three main areas of competence: (i) knowledge of different cultural paradigms as well as narrative genres, functions and modes; (ii) awareness of the various problems of reading and interpretation; and (iii) critical reading of texts informed by the knowledge of/interaction of text and context. Students will learn to understand some of the basic principles of critical theory as well as applying specific reading strategies to selected texts and to raise questions about the reading process and its contexts. The emphasis throughout is on the development of students’ critical awareness of positions, strategies and possibilities of interpretation and the ability to propose their personal reading of literary texts.

Contents

LM-38
Narrating the self: literature, identity and agency

This year's course focuses on aspects of narrativity in relation to the self, to self-definition and self-representation in literary texts in English. Students are encouraged to explore pathways of self-narratives in a selection of works by canonical Anglophone writers covering the period between 1600s and the early 1900s. Special attention will be given to identity and agency, and the way in which literature is a site whereby discoursive practices are constructed, de-constructed and re-negotiated.

LM-14 ONLY

(Re)mediating the canon: contemporary reworkings of the canon in Anglophone literatures (1600-1900)

This year's course enables students to develop their knowledge and critical analysis contemporary rewritings of canonical literary texts in the English language. Special attention will be given to post-colonial and gender studies reworkings, and to the significance of interxtuality within the literarary and cultural discourse of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.

Recommended Bibliography

LM-38:
Primary sources (preferably the following editions):

W. Shakespeare, King Lear. Con testo a fronte (Mondadori, Garzanti);

D. Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Penguin, 1985;

E. Gaskell, An Accursed Race, in The Works of Mrs. Gaskell, A.W. Ward (ed.), 8 vols, Vol. 1, London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1906, pp. 217-236 (photocopied material);

R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde. Penguin, 2012;

J. Joyce, An Encounter, in Dubliners. Penguin, 1992 (intr. Terence Brown); Liberty Classics 2017.

Secondary sources:

Brioschi, F., Di Girolamo, C., Fusillo, M., Introduzione alla letteratura. Roma: Carocci, 2013, pp. 13-51; 71-75; 160-196;

Crisafulli, L.M., Elam, K. (eds), Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2009: pp. 39-57 (Shakespeare); pp. 139-153 (il Settecento); pp. 281-294 (I Vittoriani); pp. 345-349 (i Modernisti - Joyce)

Kott, Jan, “Chronological Table”, in Shakespeare Our Contemporary. London: Routledge, 1967, pp. 301-304.

Bond, Edward, Introduction, in Plays II. London: Methuen Drama, 1978, ix-xviii.

Steven Connor, Chapter 1, in The English Novel in History: 1950 to the Present. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 1-43.

LM-14
Primary Sources

Edward Bond, Lear (1971), trad. it. Spinelli, Minimum Fax (pp. 190);

Coetzee, Foe (1986), trad. it. di Franca Cavagnoli, Torino, Einaudi, 2005 (pp. 145);

E. Tennant, Lo strano caso della signora Jekyll e della signora Hyde. Milano, La Tartaruga, 2002;

M. Morrissy, “An Encounter”, trad. it. Minimum Fax, 2014.

(Edizioni in italiano per studenti non madrelingua. Gli studenti Erasmus/anglofoni possono usare i testi in lingua originale).

Secondary sources:

Bertinetti, Roberto, Dai Beatles a Blair: la cultura inglese contemporanea. Roma: Carocci, 2011, pp. 123.

Brioschi, F., Di Girolamo, C., Fusillo, M., Introduzione alla letteratura. Roma: Carocci, 2013, pp. 13-51; 71-75; 160-196;

Bond, Edward, Introduction, in Plays II. London: Methuen Drama, 1978, ix-xviii.

Crisafulli, L.M., Elam, K. (eds), Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2009, pp. 559-576.

Pèrcopo, Luisa, “Canone e Post-Coloniale”, in Altri canoni/canoni altri, a cura di Ornella Zordo e Fiorenzo Fantaccini. Firenze, FUP, 2011, pp. 67-104.

Teaching Methods

Frontal and interactive teaching. Classes will be taught in the English language.

Cooperative learning teaching methodology may occasionally be adopted (group work).

Experts may be involved in the course, and at least one film on the topic of the course will be screened.

Contacts/More Information

Students who cannot attend classes are invited to read the following additional sources. These are meant specifically to aid them in preparing for the exam:

LM-38 - NON FREQUENTANTI (additional reading)

Bertinetti, Paolo, Il romanzo inglese. Bari: Laterza: 2017, pp. 3-16.

Gibson, Andrew, “Looking back: Dubliners”, in James Joyce. London: Reaktion Books, 2006, pp. 68-76.

Sullam, Sara, “Il romanzo”, in Canani, M., Chiappini, F., Sullam, S., (eds), Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese. Roma: Carocci, 2017, pp. 115-156.

Photocopied material will be available at the Copisteria 110eLode, Via Zanfarino, Sassari

LM-14 - NON FREQUENTANTI

NON FREQUENTANTI: materiale integrativo
(il materiale integrativo è facoltativo per i frequentanti ma obbligatorio per i non frequentanti e viene proposto al fine di facilitarne la preparazione per la prova orale):

Albertazzi, Silvia, “Verso una World Literature? La condizione letteraria all’alba del terzo millennio”, in Lo sguardo dell'altro. Le letterature postcoloniali. Roma: Carocci, 2000, pp. 151-189;

Ashcroft, Bill et al, The Empire Writes Back, pp. 1-13 (file:///C:/Users/pc/Downloads/The_Empire_Writes_Back_Theory_and_Practi.pdf)

Bhabha, Homi K., “Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences”, in Ashcroft, B., Tiffin, H. (eds), The Postcolonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 206-212;

Connor, Steven, Chapters 1 & 5 in The English Novel in History: 1950 to the Present. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. pp. 1-43; & 168-196.

Gualtieri, Claudia, “Strumenti e metodi”, in Gualtieri, C., Vivan, I., Dalla Englishness alla Britishness 1950-2000. Discorsi culturali in trasformazione dal canone imperiale alla storia dell’oggi. Roma: Carocci, 2008, pp. 87-98;

Tiffin, Helen, “Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse”, in Ashcroft, B., Tiffin, H. (eds), The Postcolonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 95-98.

Photocopied material will be available at the Copisteria 110eLode, Via Zanfarino, Sassari

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