Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
Training
6
S
-
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
Training
6
S
-
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S002912

Credits

9

Coordinator

Enrico Botta

Language

English en

Also offered in courses:

The teaching is organized as follows:

PARTE I en

Credits

6

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere)

Academic staff

Enrico Botta

PARTE II en

Credits

3

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere)

Academic staff

Enrico Botta

Learning outcomes

This course aims at providing students with a basic knowledge of the literature of United States in its complexity and plurality. Focus will be on specific texts, movements and literary tendencies. By the end of this course, students will be able to recognize specific and often conflictual forms of writing. These are in fact generated within the context of different ethnic realities and traditions, and even though they are labeled as American Literature because of geographic reasons, they have totally different goals and forms of expression. Furthermore students will be able to approach texts with adequate critical tools, and will be familiar with specific features of American English.

Program

Innovations and revolutions. The course aims at exploring the birth and development of American literature through the themes of innovation and revolution. They will be understood in their historical, political, and ideological as well as cultural and stylistic significance. Results of change or expressions of change itself, revisions of gender, race, and class will be analyzed as elements of challenge to the established order. Formally, students will consider how thematic and stylistic innovations were interwoven with the more traditional technical aspects of the predominant literary canons.

Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Nathaniel Hawthorne; My Kinsman, Major Molineaux
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener; Billy Budd, Foretopman
Walt Whitman, selected poems
Emily Dickinson, selected poems
Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; How to Tell a Story
Henry James, Daisy Miller

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour; Desiree’s Baby
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find; The River
Bob Dylan, With God on Our Side; Romance in Durango
Bruce Springsteen, The River; The Ghost of Tom Joad; Youngstown; Black Cowboy

Critical texts related to the primary sources will be available on the professor’s web page.

Bibliography

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Examination Methods

Oral exam

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