2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-LIN/10 (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)

9

54 lesson hours

corso tenuto esclusivamente in lingua inglese

ORAL TEST

GUERRA LIA SIMONETTA (titolare) - 12 ECTS

Students of the second year of the Master in Foreign Languages and Literatures are expected to know the main texts of English Literature from the Modern Age to the contemporary production. They are also expected to use the English language fluently.

The aim of the course is to investigate the different areas of literary criticism, poetics, textual analysis and historical and cultural contexts in order to enable students to master an author, a genre or a period of literature in English.

Good and bad savages in English Literature.
Linguistic, philosophic and cultural categories such as “primitive”"barbarian" and “savage” are analyzed in literary texts ranging from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. Starting from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the course will deal also with the new literary genres of the novel and the essay in order to follow the development of the debate. Texts by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Addison, Steele and Johnson will be read and discussed in class.
The last part of the course will be devoted to a discussion of contemporary rewritings of texts discussed in the main part of the course.

Lectures

Primary sources: please use the following editions as they include fundamental critical apparatus
Shakespeare The Tempest, edited by Peter Hulme and W H Sherman, Norton critical edition 2004
Aphra Behn, Oronooko, ed by Joanna Lipking, Norton critical edition 1997
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. an authoritative text, Contexts, criticism,edited by Michael Shinagel Norton critical edition, 1994.
Further bibliographical information will be provided during the course

Oral presentations in class and final oral exam

Oral presentations in class and final oral exam