2017/2018

2018/2019

DM270

L-LIN/10 (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

English

ORAL TEST

COTTA RAMUSINO ELENA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Language level: B1 as recognized by the Common European Framework of Reference.

The course is an introduction to twentieth-century English literature through the analysis of major works of the period and the investigation of their relationship both with tradition and the coeval cultural context. At the end of the course students are expected to be able to analyse literary texts, to relate them to their author's production and to set them in context.

Introduction to twentieth-century English literature through the analysis of texts belonging to the different genres of poetry, drama and fiction.
The texts that will be analysed are in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, ninth edition, Volume 2, or Volume F: The Twentieth Century and after
In addition to the texts in the Norton Anthology, for the exam students are also required to read 3 novels, at least one of which in English, to study the critical essays, and the sections of the History of Literature volume as specified below.

Lectures, mainly in English. Introduction to periods, genres, authors will be followed by translation and analysis of selected texts.

Required Reading:
Norton Anthology of English Literature, ninth edition, Volume 2, or Volume F: The twentieth century and after.

A booklet containing:
* the list of the texts in the anthology
* the list of the critical essays that (attending and non-attending) students are required to study for the exam
* the critical essays
will be on sale at CLU bookshop.

Students will read 3 novels, choosing a novel from each group - a), b), c) - (in any edition), of which one at least in English.

a) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virgina Woolf, Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse
D.H.Lawrence, Women in Love or Lady Chatterley's Lover

b) Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
G.Greene, The Power and the Glory or The Third Man
E.Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
G.Orwell, Animal Farm

c) M.Spark, Memento Mori
J. Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
I.. McEwan, The Child in Time or Saturday
K.Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go
W.Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
H.Hamilton, The Speckled People
M.Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
S.Barry, The Secret Scripture
T.Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

History of Literature:
From the volume A Short History of English Literature - Vol. II From the Victorians to the Present , by Arturo Cattaneo, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2011: pp.97- 306.

The exam will be oral and in English. The exam will assess the students' knowledge of periods, authors, texts of twentieth-century English literature.

Students should check Kiro (http://idcd.unipv.it/studenti/) for additional information or materials.