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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. 2020/2021
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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. 2021/2022
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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 3 (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S002949
Academic staff
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Period
I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 27, 2021 al Jan 8, 2022.
Learning outcomes
The course, held in English, aims at introducing Students to the English Literature from the 16th century to the Restoration (1660), paying emphasis on some canonical literary texts. Besides, it will offer skills and abilities for the critical analysis of literary texts and their genres. The course objective is to provide a good knowledge of the literature of the period (historical context, texts, genres, literary movements and authors) and to develop in Students a capacity of analysis and argumentative abilities in relation to the various typologies of literary texts set in their literary, historical, and cultural context. At the end of the course, Student will be able to - analyse the examined literary texts setting them in their historical and cultural context; - discuss them in an argumentative way, with due consideration to contemporary literary conventions, and by applying a critical, knowledgeable, and aware approach to the specificity of the literary texts; - present the acquired competences in English, and in a coherent and clear way.
Program
Part I: Prof. Bigliazzi (12 hours, 2 CFU)
A selection of Shakespearean sonnets will be examined, taking into account their editorial history and stylistic, intertextual and performative characteristics, also in relation to contemporary Shakespearean dramas.
Attending and non-attending students, as well as Erasmus students are required to do all the readings indicated below:
Primary Texts:
Alessandro Serpieri, a cura di, William Shakespeare, Sonetti, Milano, Rizzoli, 1995.
Secondary Texts:
Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Part II: Prof. Fiorato (24 hours, 4 CFU)
Attending and non-attending students, as well as Erasmus students are required to do all the readings indicated below:
Testi Primari
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Torino, Einaudi, 2014, a cura di S. Bigliazzi (testo a fronte)
Testi critici
- Gayle Whittier, The Sonnet's Body and the Body Sonnetized in "Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring, 1989, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 27-41
- A. R. Braunmuller, Michael Hattaway, The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990
Futher bibliography will be indicated during the course
Bibliography
Examination Methods
The lessons will be in English. The exam will be an oral discussion in English on the topic of the course and the texts in the program (parts A,B,C).
In particular:
- the ability to discuss topics (literary trends, authors, genres) within the history of English literature
- the ability to present a critical argumentation on topics related to the texts of the syllabus (making examples from scenes and passages)
- the ability to make connections between the topics of the course, on the basis of the critical texts indicated in the programme