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Laurea in Lingue e letterature per l'editoria e i media digitali - 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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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
Philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
Philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
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English literature 1 (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S002926
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Period
I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 28, 2020 al Jan 9, 2021.
Learning outcomes
The course, held in English, aims at introducing the students to English literature (from the Victorian to the contemporary period), with specific reference to a selection of canonical texts, and at presenting methodological approaches for the analysis of literary texts and genres. The course aims at providing a good knowledge of British literature (articulated in historical context, texts, genres, literary trends and authors) and the skills for a critical analysis and argumentation on different kinds of texts in their historical and cultural context.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
-Analyse the literary texts of the programme in their historical and cultural context;
- Apply an aware critical approach to literary texts and present an argumentation which shows knowledge of literary conventions
-Express the acquired literary and critical competence in English clearly and coherently.
Program
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES: CLIMATE CRISIS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
If, as a species, i.e. as human beings, we will not take drastic and draconian actions in order to diminish the ecological footprint we leave on the planet, in 2050, the rise in general warmth of the earth by 3 Celsius degrees will foster, or have already fostered, irreversible natural reactions which will derange the planet dramatically.
The planet – Gaia – as our generation has had the luck to know it, will not exist anymore. Unhealable changes might by then have occurred, triggered off by Darwinian adaptation processes that the planet will undertake to adapt and alter its state according to the irreversible environmental situation. We will therefore examine chosen works of literature, of the past and the present, that have testified and testify to the present predicament and dangerousness of our situation.
Literary works that will be examined are:
- C. Dickens. 1987 (1854). Hard Times. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- T. Hardy. 1985 (1887). The Woodlanders. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- V. Woolf, 1982 (1928). Orlando. London: Granada.
- V. Woolf, 1933. Flush. A Biography. London: Hogarth Press
- A. Ghosh. 2019. Gun Island, London: John Murray.
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Literary Criticism:
J. Bate, Romantic Ecology. 1991. London: Routledge. 36-61.
Y. Bezrucka. 2013. “Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies”, in 'Il Romanticismo oggi', Nuovi Quaderni del CRIER, X, Fiorini, Verona, 33-54, download from Academia.edu.
Y. Bezrucka. 2005. Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dell'Ottocento, Ares, Trento. 9-53, 123-46, download from Academia.edu.
G. Garrard, Ecocriticism. 2012. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. 1-36, 94-116.
P. Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees. 2016. London: Harper Collins
Suggested History of Literature: Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, chapters 7-10.
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Greg Garrard | Ecocriticism | Routledge | 2012 | 2nd ed. | |
Virginia Woolf | Flush. A Biography | Penguin, Viking | 1977 | ||
Amitav Ghosh | Gun Island | John Murray | 2019 | ||
C. Dickens | Hard Times. | Harmondsworth: Penguin | 1987 | (1st ed. 1854 | |
Y. Bezrucka | Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies”, in 'Il Romanticismo oggi', Nuovi Quaderni del CRIER, X, Fiorini, Verona, 33-54, download from Academia.edu | CRIER | 2013 | ||
Y. Bezrucka | Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dell'Ottocento (download from Academia.edu.) | ARES | 2005 | ||
Virginia Woolf | Orlando. A Biography | Granada | 1982 | 1st ed. 1928 | |
Jonathan Bate | Romantic Ecology | Routledge | 1991 | ||
Peter Wholleben | The Hidden Life of Trees | Harper Collins | 2016 | ||
Thomas Hardy | The Woodlanders | Penguin | 1985 | 1st ed. 1887 |
Examination Methods
Oral Viva if possible, given the covid conditions, otherwise written examination.