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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The 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

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2014/2015

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/21
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/21
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II                        Tedesco
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Inglese
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Francese
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Russo
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Spagnolo
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Tedesco
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Inglese
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Francese
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Russo
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Spagnolo
Un insegnamento a scelta

3° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2015/2016

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Un insegnamento a scelta
Un insegnamento a scelta
9
C
IUS/09
Prova finale
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2014/2015
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/21
Seconda lingua straniera anno II
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/21
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II                        Tedesco
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Inglese
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Francese
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Russo
Prima letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Spagnolo
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Tedesco
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Inglese
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Francese
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Russo
Seconda letteratura straniera o materia d'area anno II Spagnolo
Un insegnamento a scelta
activated in the A.Y. 2015/2016
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Prima lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Seconda lingua straniera anno III
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/21
9
B
L-LIN/07
Un insegnamento a scelta
Un insegnamento a scelta
9
C
IUS/09
Prova finale
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S00869

Coordinator

Yvonne Bezrucka

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre dal Oct 1, 2014 al Jan 10, 2015.

Learning outcomes

The course “Identity issues in 18th and Early 19th-c. Literature” will show how literature, and the novel in particular, deal with the new identities and ethnic issues which became more relevant during these centuries. Through this filter we will analyse how the aesthetic, cultural, economic, and philosophical changes of this complex age, rich in dramatic historical events, will permeate the literary field.
The course will be taught in English.

Program

1. History of Literature from 1660 to 1830. 
All Students must demonstrate to be able to illustrate the development of the various literary genres and to know the authors pertaining to each of them.


- Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C, “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century”, and Vol. D, “The Romantic Period”, Norton, New York 2006 (1962) for the period required.

- Y. Bezrucka, Synopsis of English Literature, under publication.



TEXTS

- The Citizen of the World (1760), recent OUP or Penguin ed. Letters: 4-5, 11, 19, 28-30, 39, 49, 52, 62,74-75, 79, 89-90, 96, 100, 102, 114.
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, OUP or Penguin ed.

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, OUP or Penguin ed.

- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, OUP or Penguin ed.

Bibliography 

Students will have to read:

- Y. Bezrucka, “L’invenzione del paesaggio nordico tra Settecento e Ottocento”, in Il paesaggio romantico, W. Busch, A. Larcati, Fiorini, Verona , 2012, pp. 41-67.

- Susan Meyer, Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction, Cornell UP, Ithaca, NY, 1996, pp. 1-29, 96-125.
- Jeffrey Williams, Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition, pp. Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1998, pp.134-46.
- J. Hillis Miller, Fiction and Repetition, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982, ch. on Emily Brontë.
- Eve Kosofsky, Sedgwick, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions, Methuen, London, Methuen, 1986 (FRINZI)
- Patrick Brantlinger, “The Gothic Origins of Science Fiction”, “Novel”, Vol. 14, No. 1, Autumn 1980, pp. 30-43.
- H.L. Malchow, “Frankenstein’s Monster and Images of Race in Nienteenth-Century Britain”, ‘Past & Present’, No. 139, May 1993, pp. 90-130.
- Denise Gigante, “Facing the Ugly: The Case of ‘Frankenstein’”, ELH, vol. 67, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 565-87.
- Ronald Paulson, “Gothic Fiction and the French Revolution”, ELH, Vol. 48, no. 3, Autumn 1981, pp. 532-54.
- Angela Wright, “Gothic Fiction: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism”, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007.

Examination Methods

ORAL VIVA
Students might hand in, if they wish and before sitting for the exam, an essay about an author or a relevant work of the period 1660-1850.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE