Programme

During the course, the students will learn how to read a number of classics of English literature, dating from the Renaissance to early 20th century. The main emphasis will be on testing the main interpretive tools required to analyze the texts’ form and languages; just as important, however, will be the attempts that will be made to locate these texts within the English literary tradition by investigating their historical and cultural significance.

Core Documentation

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1607), trad. A. Lombardo (Feltrinelli), edizione bilingue

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw/Il giro di vite (1898), (Marsilio), edizione bilingue
Joseph Conrad, Typhoon/Tifone (1901) (Mursia o La vita felice), edizione bilingue
James Joyce, “Evelyne” e “A Painful Case”, da Dubliners (1914), in fotocopia
Graham Greene, The Quiet American (Penguin) o L'americano tranquillo (Mondadori)

Poesie
Selezione da tre poeti di lingua inglese del ’900: W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin e Derek Walcott.
Il docente preparerà una dispensa, che sarà disponibile ad ottobre

Reading list non frequentanti
Oltre ai romanzi studiati in classe, gli studenti non frequentanti dovranno leggerne un altro a scelta tra:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, (1818)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)

I non-frequentanti dovranno studiare la storia della letteratura inglese del Novecento.



A selection of English and Irish poems

Programme

This course explores the theme of the master-servant relationship in two canonical English texts (William's Shakespeare The Tempest and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe) and the metamorphoses of this theme across two celebrated rewritings of the Robinson-myth (Derek Walcott's Pantomime and J.M. Coetzee's Foe).

Core Documentation

William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611) (edizioni consigliate: Arden, Penguin o Garzanti con testo a fronte);
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) (edizioni consigliate: Oxford World's Classics o Penguin Classics);
D. Walcott, Pantomime (1978) (qualsiasi edizione inglese);
J.M. Coetzee, Foe (1986) (qualsiasi edizione inglese).

Type of delivery of the course

lectures and group projects

Attendance

Although not mandatory, attendance is highly recommended.

Type of evaluation

Oral examination