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.

Study Plan

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
1st foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/07
9
B
L-LIN/21
2nd foreign language
9
B
L-LIN/12
9
B
L-LIN/04
9
B
L-LIN/14
9
B
L-LIN/07
9
B
L-LIN/21
1st foreign literature 1 LM. Forms, genres and critical approaches
6
B
L-LIN/10
6
B
L-LIN/03
6
B
L-LIN/13
6
B
L-LIN/21
6
B
L-LIN/05
2nd foreign literature 1 LM. Forms, genres and critical approaches
6
B
L-LIN/10
6
B
L-LIN/03
6
B
L-LIN/13
6
B
L-LIN/21
6
B
L-LIN/05
9
B
L-FIL-LET/14
6
B
L-FIL-LET/10

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

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature disciplinary area
6
C
L-LIN/11
6
C
L-LIN/03
6
C
L-LIN/13
6
C
L-LIN/10
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/06
2nd foreign literature disciplinary area or textual and comparative studies
6
C
L-LIN/11
6
C
L-LIN/03
6
C
L-LIN/13
6
C
L-LIN/10
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/06
6
C
L-FIL-LET/14
1st or 2nd foreign literature 2 LM. Critical methodologies and textual interpretation
6
B
L-LIN/10
6
B
L-LIN/03
6
B
L-LIN/13
6
B
L-LIN/05
6
B
L-LIN/21
A philology to be chosen among the following (philology must be related to one of the chosen languages)
6
B
L-FIL-LET/15
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
6
B
L-LIN/21
History of the 1st or the 2nd foreign language
6
B
L-LIN/12
6
B
L-LIN/04
6
B
L-LIN/14
6
B
L-LIN/07
6
B
L-LIN/21
Dissertation
21
E
-
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature disciplinary area
6
C
L-LIN/11
6
C
L-LIN/03
6
C
L-LIN/13
6
C
L-LIN/10
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/06
2nd foreign literature disciplinary area or textual and comparative studies
6
C
L-LIN/11
6
C
L-LIN/03
6
C
L-LIN/13
6
C
L-LIN/10
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/06
6
C
L-FIL-LET/14
1st or 2nd foreign literature 2 LM. Critical methodologies and textual interpretation
6
B
L-LIN/10
6
B
L-LIN/03
6
B
L-LIN/13
6
B
L-LIN/05
6
B
L-LIN/21
A philology to be chosen among the following (philology must be related to one of the chosen languages)
6
B
L-FIL-LET/15
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
6
B
L-LIN/21
History of the 1st or the 2nd foreign language
6
B
L-LIN/12
6
B
L-LIN/04
6
B
L-LIN/14
6
B
L-LIN/07
6
B
L-LIN/21
Dissertation
21
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
18
D
-
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Other teaching activities
6
F
-

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

American literature and europe  (2021/2022)

Teaching code

4S002994

Teacher

Enrico Botta

Coordinator

Enrico Botta

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/11 - ANGLO-AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 14, 2022 al May 28, 2022.

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

This course aims at providing students with an advanced knowledge of themes, genres, and tendencies in the literature and culture of the United States. Focus will be on specific texts and on a variety of critical approaches to interpret them. By the end of this course, students will be able to analyze texts that show specific tendencies of American culture. They will be able to connect literary works to political, social, and religious events. They will develop critical awareness in seeing how literature is influenced by its context, and how the context defines literature, this allowing for domestic and international consequences. Furthermore, students will be able to approach texts with adequate critical tools, and will be familiar with specific features of American English.

Program

Reconstructions, Translations, and Adaptations: The course aims at exploring the birth and development of American literature through the concepts of reconstruction, translation, and adaptation. They will be understood in their historical, political, and ideological as well as cultural and stylistic significance. It will be analyzed how literary texts have described various reconstructions of previous political and ideological frameworks of American history and adapted them to new social and cultural contexts. Formally, students will consider how translations and film adaptations have contributed to reconstructing the plots, narrative mechanisms, and values of literary works.

George Sandys, Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d, and Represented in Figures. An Essay to the Translation of Virgil’s Aeneis.

William Dunlap, Count Ugolino’s Episode
Dante Alighieri, Il conte Ugolino (Divina commedia, Inferno, canto XXXIII)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Divine Comedy, Inferno, canto XXXIII

Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton, Sleepy Hollow

Walt Whitman, selezione di poesie
Emily Dickinson, selezione di poesie

Henry James, The American
Paul Unwin, The American

Cormac McCarthy, The Road
John Hillcoat, The Road

Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight – screenplay
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight – movie

Bob Dylan, Desolation Row; Romance in Durango
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology (selezione di poesie)
Fabrizio De André, Via della povertà; Avventura a Durango; selezione di canzoni da Non al denaro, non all’amore, né al cielo

Literary history and criticism:
Richard Gray, A Brief History of American Literature, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation, Routledge, 2006.
Enrico Botta, Desiderai un nuovo mondo. La letteratura americana sulla Ricostruzione, Ombre corte, 2020.

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

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