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The 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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CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3rd foreign language
3
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Stage
6
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Final exam
6
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ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3rd foreign language
3
F
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Stage
6
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Final exam
6
E
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Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S002903

Coordinator

Yvonne Bezrucka

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 30, 2019 al Jan 11, 2020.

Learning outcomes

The course, held in English, aims at introducing students to relevant aspects of English literature, from the Pre-Romantic to the Contemporary period, via the reading of a selection of canonical texts. Primary notions about possible methodological approaches for the analysis of literary texts and genres will be imparted. Furthermore, the course will provide a sound knowledge of the English literature of the period (historical context, texts, genres, literary movements and authors) and stimulate abilities and skills for the critical analysis of texts, their discussion and analysis, in consideration of their historical, cultural, and context specificities. At the end of the course, students will be able to: - Analyse the literary texts of the syllabus discussing them in relation to their historical and cultural context; - Discuss the texts using an appropriate critical approach demonstrating the knowledge of the literary conventions of their time; - Express the acquired literary and critical knowledge demonstrating an adequate competence also in the English language.

Program

Modernism, Postmodernism, Globalization Literature (This course is held in English)

Besides a synoptic analysis of the period which goes from the Victorian to the Contemporary age, the course offers an in-depth reading of some paradigmatic novels of their time. We will analyse their topics and their distinctive formal and stylistic features. Students will thus acquire interpretative tools which will encourage them to develop their own interpretations on the Victorian, Modernist, Postmodernist age, and on the topical Globalization and Diaspora Immigration/Migration Literature, via the analysis of works which condense the history of ideas of their time.

Primary Bibliography:

Joseph Conrad (1895) Almayer’s Folly (London: Penguin).
V.S. Naipaul (1979) A Bend in the River (London: Penguin).
Hanif Kureishi (1994) "My Son the Fanatic" in 'Collected Stories' (London: Faber & Faber).
Emma Jane Kirby (2017, II ed. 2019) The Optician of Lampedusa (London: Penguin or Faber & Faber)


Secondary Texts:

A. Appadurai (1996) "Modernity at Large. The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization" (Minneapolis: Minnesota UP) 31-43.
Y. Bezrucka (2017) “Food for Dreams and an Appetite for Nations”, RSV, 44, 31-53.
Y. Bezrucka (1995) “Il postmodernismo: l’accettazione ironica del doppio senso”, in Y. Bezrucka, 'Tra passato e futuro', (Trento: Autem) 85-108, download my texts from academia.edu
Y. Bezrucka (2019) "Democracy and Equality in the European Union: Migration & Literature"( in print).
B. Buchanan (2007) Hanif Kureishi (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
S. Gikandi, in L. Connell, N. Marsh (2011) (eds.) Literature and Globalization (London: Routledge) 109-120.
A. Loomba (2005, 1998) "Globalisation and the Future of Postcolonial Studies" in Colonialism/Postcolonialism (London: Routledge) 213-28.
E.H. Yekani (2007) "'Who's he Fanatic now?' Father-and-Son Conflicts" in 'Kritische Bericthe', 4, 2007.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
V.S.Naipaul A Bend in the River Penguin 1979
Joseph Conrad Almayer's Folly Penguin 1895
Hanif Kureishi Collected Stories Faber and Faber 1994
Anne Jane Kirby The Optician of Lampedusa Penguin 2017

Examination Methods

Viva

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