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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.

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Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce - 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.

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Teaching code

4S002910

Credits

9

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 22, 2025 al Dec 24, 2025.

Courses Single

Authorized

Learning objectives

The course, taught in English, aims to provide students with an introduction to British literature from the Renaissance to late Romanticism, focusing on some of the most representative works. The course also aims to introduce the main critical approaches and the main features of literary genres. The overall goal of the course is to provide students with a good level of knowledge of literary history (in terms of historical context, texts, genres, movements and authors) and to develop their critical skills for analysis, argumentation and exposition in English, in relation to various typologies of literary texts in their historical-cultural context. At the end of the course, students will be able to: - analyse the set texts and place them in their respective historical-cultural contexts; - describe the texts in a structured and informed way, taking into account literary conventions and applying an informed critical approach; - discuss literary topics in English in a clear and consistent way.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The prerequisites concern the propaedeutic criteria established by the degree programme regulations. Therefore, to take the English Literature and Culture 2 exam, you must have passed the English Literature and Culture 1 and English Language 1 exams.

Program

Geographies of Power:
History, Space, and National Identity in English Literature (1485–1780)
This course examines how English literature between 1485 and 1790 engages with shifting conceptions of power, space, and national identity in a period marked by profound political, religious, and epistemological change. Through the works of Christopher Marlowe (The Massacre at Paris), William Shakespeare (The Tempest), and Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), students will explore how literary texts reflect, shape, and challenge contemporary understandings of history and geography – from the confessional conflicts of Reformation Europe and the insular and imperial imaginaries of early modern England to the satirical critiques of Enlightenment rationalism and colonial expansion. The course will investigate how literature maps both real and imagined spaces – continental courts, enchanted islands, and fantastical nations – while interrogating the ideological forces that govern them. Particular attention will be paid to how authors dramatise political violence, stage encounters with cultural ‘others’, and grapple with the tension between national identity and global awareness. The course traces the evolution of English literary responses to questions of sovereignty, territory, travel, and human nature, situating texts within their broader historical and geopolitical contexts.

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

ATTENDING STUDENTS:
The course will be held in English through lectures and will also include parts for reflection and discussion on the part of the students upon the topics under consideration. Slides related to the topics of the course and other mandatory readings will be uploaded on Moodle.

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
The programme for non-attending students is the same as the one for attending students. Extra mandatory readings for non-attending students will be uploaded on Moodle.

BOTH ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
All students can ask for further references or about the topics of the course during office hours (as indicated on the webpage).

TEACHING SUPPORT:
Information and teaching materials will be uploaded in the Moodle platform.
A specific support and tutoring activity for inclusion and accessibility will be advertised on the Department page.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam (the exam will last approximately 20/30 minutes and will be based on 5/6 questions).

Students may be required to read and comment on passages taken from primary texts and mandatory readings (see “BIBLIOGRAPHY").

There will be no mid-term tests.

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

Evaluation criteria

1) The knowledge and comprehension of the module’s topics (texts, authors, and genres) and of the literary and cultural context (from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century);
2) the development of good analytical and synthetic skill levels with regard to the main historical, cultural, textual, and critical topics of the module;
3) the use of an appropriate vocabulary.

Exam language

Inglese / English