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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.
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1° Year
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Prima lingua straniera anno ISeconda lingua straniera anno IPrima letteratura straniera anno ISeconda letteratura straniera anno IInformation Technology
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2013/2014
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Prima lingua straniera anno IISeconda lingua straniera anno IIPrima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno IISeconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno IIUn insegnamento a sceltaUrban, commercial and transportation geography
Un insegnamento a sceltaUn insegnamento a scelta3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2014/2015
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Prima lingua straniera anno IIISeconda lingua straniera anno IIIUn insegnamento a scelta| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Prima lingua straniera anno ISeconda lingua straniera anno IPrima letteratura straniera anno ISeconda letteratura straniera anno IInformation Technology
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Prima lingua straniera anno IISeconda lingua straniera anno IIPrima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno IISeconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno IIUn insegnamento a sceltaUrban, commercial and transportation geography
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Prima lingua straniera anno IIISeconda lingua straniera anno IIIUn insegnamento a scelta| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Literature of English-speaking Countries (2013/2014)
Teaching code
4S00866
Credits
9
Language
English
Location
VERONA
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 introducing students to the main themes and theoretical issues of postcolonial studies through an in-depth analysis of representative colonial and postcolonial texts in English.
Program
After an historical and theoretical introduction to the subject of postcolonial studies lectures will focus on the critical reading of some South African, Caribbean and Australian novels and short stories dealing with the theme of madness.
primary sources
- J.M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country (1977)
- Erna Brodber, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980)
- Henry Lawson, da The Bush Undertaker and Other Stories (1970) “Water Them Geraniums” (1899), “The Bush Undertaker” (1892), “No Place for a Woman” (1899)
- Patrick White, The Aunt’s Story (1948); da The Burnt Ones (1964): “Clay”, “The Letters”
secondary sources
- B.Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, H.Tiffin (eds.), The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Routlege, 1995. I seguenti capitoli: Introduction; Chap. 2; Chap.5
- S. Zinato, A. Pes (eds), Ex-centric Writing. Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. I seguenti capitoli: Introduction; Chap. 2 (C. Concilio); Chap. 5 (J. Thieme); Chap. 7 (D. Callahan); Cap. 8 (A. Pes).
- G. Wilentz, “Reclaiming Residual Culture: African Heritage as Caribbean Cures in Erna Brodber’s Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home” in Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease, Rutgers University Press, 2000 (pp. 27-52)
- A. Lawson, “Bound to Dis-integrate. Narrative Interpretation in The Aunt’s Story”, Antipodes, 6: 1, June 1992, pp. 9-15
Reference texts:
- B.Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, H. Tiffin (eds.), Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, Routledge, 1998.
- E. Benson, L.W. Connolly (eds), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English, 2005
Non-attending students are requested to supplement the list of readings with the following, compulsory, one (optional for attending students):
- D. Head, J.M. Coetzee, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (chap. 1; chap. 3)
- S. Rowley, “Imagination, Madness and Nation in Australian Bush Mythology” in K. Darian-Smith, L. Gunner and S. Nuttall, Text, Theory, Space, Routledge, 1996 (pp.131-144)
- J.F. Burrows, “’Jardin Exotique’: the Central Phase of The Aunt’s Story”, Southerly, III, 1966, pp. 152-173
NOTICE:
All texts are to be read in English
Examination Methods
Oral examination at the end of the course