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Study Plan
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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026The 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 letteratura straniera anno I
Seconda letteratura straniera anno I
Prima lingua straniera anno I
Seconda lingua straniera anno I
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2011/2012
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Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II
Prima lingua straniera anno II
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
Urban, commercial and transportation geography
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2012/2013
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Prima lingua straniera anno III
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
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Prima letteratura straniera anno I
Seconda letteratura straniera anno I
Prima lingua straniera anno I
Seconda lingua straniera anno I
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Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II
Prima lingua straniera anno II
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
Urban, commercial and transportation geography
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Prima lingua straniera anno III
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
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English Literature II [Tur] (2011/2012)
Teaching code
4S00869
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Period
I semestre dal Oct 3, 2011 al Jan 14, 2012.
Learning outcomes
The course will analyse the background and some texts of 18th-century Travel Literature in order to highlight their ideology at a time when new conceptions of identity were being cast.
Program
18th-Century Travel Literature: the Pleasures and Politics of Travelling
Testi - 3 a scelta tra:
- Lawrence Sterne, "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy" (1768), Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin,
- Tobias Smollett, (1766), "Humphrey Clinker", Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin,
- Tobias Smollett "Travels through France and Italy" (1766), Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin,
- Mary Wortley Montagu, "The Turkish Embassy Letters" (1716-18), William Pickering. London,
- Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark", etext
- Henry Fielding, "Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon" (1754), etext
- Daniel Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe", Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin,
Bibliografia:
- Y. Bezrucka, Genio ed immaginazione nel Settecento inglese, Unversità di Verona, Valdonega 2002, parti scelte
- Y. Bezrucka, "L’invenzione del paesaggio nordico tra Settecento e Ottocento", in F. Piva, a c. di, Il paesaggio romantico, in corso di pubblicazione.
- Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London 1992, one chapter of choice
- Anita Desai, “Introduction” to Turkish Embassy Letters, a cura di M. Jack, Pickering, London 1993, pp. 8-37.
- Mary Roberts, Intimate Outsiders: the Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature, 2007, un capitolo a scelta, one chapter of choice.
- Mary Roberts Sara Mills, “Written on the Landscape: Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, in Amanda Gilroy (ed.), - Romantic Geographies: Discourses of Travel, 1775-1844, Manchester UP, Manchester 2000, pp. 19-34.
- Wein, Toni, British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824, Palgrave, Macmillan, Gordonsville, VA, 2002
- Chloe Chard, Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography 1600-1830, Manchester UP, Manchester 1999, pp. 1-39, 156-172.
- Karen R. Lawrence, Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition, Cornell UP, Ithaca, New York 1994.
One chapter of choice for each of these books:
- Eric J. Leed, The Mind of the Traveller: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism, New York 1991
- Elizabeth A. Bohls, Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, Cambridge 1995
- Gerald Newman, The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740-1830, Macmillan, London 1997, pp. 54-
- John Whale, “Death in the Face of Nature: Self, Society and Body in Woolstonecraft’s ‘Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, in Romanticism, I:2, 1995, pp. 177-92.
Si consigliano inoltre i seguenti ausili:
- J.C. Wells, Longman Pronouncing Dictionary, Harlow, Pearson, 2000;
- Collins Cobuilt, English Language Dictionary, Collins, 2001;
- F. Picchi, Grande dizionario Inglese/Italiano, Italiano/Inglese, Hoepli, 1999.
Impartito in lingua inglese
Examination Methods
oral examination