Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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Prima lingua straniera anno I
Seconda lingua straniera anno I
Prima letteratura straniera anno I
Seconda letteratura straniera anno I
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2012/2013
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Urban, commercial and transportation geography
Prima lingua straniera anno II
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2013/2014
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Prima lingua straniera anno III
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
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Prima lingua straniera anno I
Seconda lingua straniera anno I
Prima letteratura straniera anno I
Seconda letteratura straniera anno I
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Urban, commercial and transportation geography
Prima lingua straniera anno II
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area
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Prima lingua straniera anno III
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
English Literature I [Tur] (2011/2012)
Teaching code
4S00844
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
The teaching is organized as follows:
Modulo 1
Modulo 2
Learning outcomes
The course aims at offering a general introduction to the main concerns and theoretical issues of the discipline through the critical reading and analysis of representative texts of colonial and postcolonial English literature.
Program
“Passages to and from the Empire”
Introductory lectures will be devoted to the literary and historical background of the Imperial and Postcolonial age. Later, by reading and elaborating on the texts students will be presented with the literary definition of English identity or “Englishness” and the rhetorical and ideological dynamics of its construction, codification, fragmentation and redefinition during the age of British imperialism and over the following years of its loss of power, of de-colonization and “reverse colonization”.
Non-attending students are required to follow the primary text and reference lists recommended to attending students and to complement it with the supplementary reference list
BIBLIOGRAFIA
Testi primari
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924), si consiglia l’edizione Penguin
- Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956), si consiglia l’edizione Penguin con introduzione di Susheila Nasta
- Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, Faber and Faber, 1986
N.B. La visione del film di S. Frears "My Beautiful Laundrette" costituirà parte integrante del corso
Testi secondari
- Kenneth C. Kaleta, "Films with Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammie and Rosie Get Laid" (pp.39-61) in Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller, University of Texas Press, 1998
- A. Dawson, Mongrel Nation, The University of Michigan Press, 2007 (i capitoli “Colonization in Reverse. An Introduction”, pp. 1-26; “In the Big City the Sex Life Gone Wild”. Migration, Gender and Identity in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners”, pp. 27-48)
- D. Bradshaw (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to E.M. Forster, CUP, 2007 (cap. 12 “A Passage to India”, pp. 188-208)
Bibliografia supplettiva per studenti non frequentanti
- A. Marzola (a c. di) Englishness, Carocci, 1999 (Cap. 5 “Ricostruzioni. 1950-1970”, pp. 197-212; Cap. 6 “Il neoliberismo e le strategie del consenso. 1970-1990”, pp. 249-257; Cap. 7.4 “Multietnie e postcolonialismo”, pp. 308-316)
- S. Manferlotti, Dopo l’Impero. Romanzo ed etnia in Gran Bretagna, Liguori, 1995 (cap. 4 "Hanif Kureishi", pp. 143-159)
- M. Looker, Atlantic Passages, Peter Lang, 1996 (“Preface”, pp. ix-x; “Introduction”, pp. 1-20; “Inventing Black London: The Lonely Londoners”, pp. 59-80)
- I. Baucom, Out of Place, Princeton University Press, 1999 (il cap. “The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. Forster’s Mutiny Pilgrimage”, pp. 101-134)
Examination Methods
Oral and/or written exam