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.

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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2012/2013

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2013/2014

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/07
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2012/2013
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
activated in the A.Y. 2013/2014
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/07
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S00844

Credits

6

Coordinator

Susanna Zinato

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

The teaching is organized as follows:

Modulo 1

Credits

3

Period

II semestre - I PARTE

Academic staff

Annalisa Pes

Modulo 2

Credits

3

Period

II semestre - II PARTE

Academic staff

Susanna Zinato

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

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE