One of the main aims of this Course of Study is to provide students with advanced knowledge of two foreign literatures related to the two languages of their choice, paying special attention to intercultural and transcultural dynamics. The course also aims at refining their ability to interpret cultural phenomena, using the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.
Anglo-American Literatures II is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literatures" area. It allows students to have a good knowledge and understanding of nineteenth century Anglo-American literature, with special attention to intercultural dynamics and the theoretical-methodological debate; it helps students master the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.
At the end of the module, students will reach a good critical ability in the interpretation of exemplary texts in the original language, as well as the necessary competence for oral rewording, translation, rewriting and adaptation in Italian of the texts themselves.
They will also be able to re-elaborate and communicate disciplinary knowledge in a specialized and non-specialized intercultural context.
Pre-requisite: Anglo-American Literatures I; English Language and Translation I
Anglo-American Literatures II is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literatures" area. It allows students to have a good knowledge and understanding of nineteenth century Anglo-American literature, with special attention to intercultural dynamics and the theoretical-methodological debate; it helps students master the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.
At the end of the module, students will reach a good critical ability in the interpretation of exemplary texts in the original language, as well as the necessary competence for oral rewording, translation, rewriting and adaptation in Italian of the texts themselves.
They will also be able to re-elaborate and communicate disciplinary knowledge in a specialized and non-specialized intercultural context.
Pre-requisite: Anglo-American Literatures I; English Language and Translation I
teacher profile teaching materials
-- Joyce E. Chaplin, "Introduction", pp.xiii-xxvi.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "The Outline of Autobiography", pp. 195-98.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "Epitaph", (1728), p. 255.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "Junto Query on Human Perfection" (1732), p. 255-6.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "To Joseph Priestly" (1772), pp. 359-60.
-- Mark Twain, "The late Benjamin Franklin" (1870), pp. 306-8.
-- Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, Letters from An American Farmer, "Letter III: What Is An American", 1782.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/letter_03.asp
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple (1794), edited by Cathy Davidson, New York, Oxford UP 1986 or any other edition.
-- Rebecca Garden, "Confined to Bed: Illness, Narrative, and Female Authority", Literature and Medicine, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2013, pp. 40-62 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
John Davis, Il capitano John Smith e la principessa Pocahontas (1805), a cura di Alide Cagidemetrio, Venezia , Marsilio, 2001, ISBN: 978-8831762977
-- Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, Pocahontas,Walt Disney Pictures, 1995 (Roma Tre Video Library).
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), edited by Frances Smith Foster and Richard Yarborough, New York, Norton Second Critical Edition, 2018, ISBN: 978-0393614565
-- Frances Smith Foster and Richard Yarborough, "Introduction", pp. vii-xix.
-- Harriet Jacobs, "Public Statements", pp. 173-6.
-- Harriet Jacobs, "Correspondence", pp. 195-204.
-- Sara Antonelli, "Introduzione" all'edizione Italiana (Vita di una ragazza schiava, Roma, Donzelli, 2004, Roma Tre Book Library).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781554812691 (Be sure to order this title well in advance).
-- Robert D. Habich, "Introduction", pp. 11-40.
-- Nature (1836), pp. 47-86.
-- Circles (1841), pp. 127-138
-- The American Scholar (1837), pp. 87-104.
-- The Divinity School Adress (1838), pp. 105-121.
-- Experience (1844), pp. 164-185.
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government", 1849.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), edited by Stephen Railton, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-1554810048 (Be sure to order this title well in advance).
-- Stephen Railton, "Introduction", pp. 9-41.
-- "Introducing Huckleberry Finn (1895), pp. 380-1
-- "Chapter from My Autobiography, XIII", North American Review 184 (March 1907), pp. 381-4.
-- Alessandro Portelli, "Mark Twain e le parole proibite", il manifesto 2011.
http://alessandroportelli.blogspot.com/2011/01/mark-twain-e-le-parole-proibite.html
-- Robert O'Meally, "Blues per Huckleberry", Acoma 26 (primavera 2003), anno IX.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/06%20O%27Meally.pdf
-- Alessandro Portelli, "'Tu non andrai da solo', ovvero 'E va bene andrò all'inferno'. La dannazione volontaria di Hester Prynne", Acoma 6 (Inverno 1996), Anno III, pp.18-26.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/6portelli.pdf
Emily Dickinson, Silenzi, cura e traduzione di Barbara Lanati, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014, ISBN: 978-8807900853
-- Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion, 2016.
-- Ashby Bland Crowder, "Emily Dickinson's Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant", The Explicator, 71:4 (2013), pp. 236-9 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
-- Joel Martyr, "Emily Dickinson's Pyramid Scheme", The Explicator, 74:2 (2016), pp. 99-103 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edited by Ann Hiebert Alton, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, ISBN: 9781551111919 (Be sure to order this title well in advance).
-- "Introduction", pp. 9-32.
-- "The Composition and Publication of Little Women", pp. 497-99, 503.
-- "The Sources for Little Women", pp. 518-29.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, edited by Michael Gorra, New York, Norton, 2017, ISBN: 978-0393938531
-- "Preface to the 1908 Edition", pp. 3-13.
-- Hawthorne (1879), by Henry James, pp. 40-45
https://archive.org/details/hawthorne02jamegoog/page/n5/mode/2up
-- Robert Weisbuch, "Henry James and the Problem of Evil", pp. 604-13.
Herman Melville, "Billy Budd", in Tales, Poems, and Other Writings, edited by John Bryant, New York, Modern Library, 2002, page. 449-521.
-- "A Utilitarian View of the Monitor Fight", p. 343.
-- Lester H. Hunt, "Billy Budd: Melville's Dilemma", Philosophy and Literature, 26:2 (October 2002), pp. 273-95 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), edited by Monica Elbert, New York, Oxford UP, 1996, 978-0140189988
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), edited by Tony Tanner, New York, Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN: 978-0141182636
-- "Introduction", pp. vii-lv.
-- Sara Antonelli, "Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio", F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015), pp. 55-75 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
-- Sara Antonelli, "Gatsby nostro contemporaneo", Acoma, 15 (Autunno-Inverno), 2018, 121-133.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/11%20Antonelli.pdf
Hans Bertens & Theo D’haen, American Literature: A History, London, Routledge, 2013.
-- "Beginnings to 1810"
-- "Towards cultural independence: 1810 to the Civil War"
-- "Civil War to World War I: 1865-1918"
Programme
This course will deepen your understanding of 19th-century American Literature and prepare you to approach American Realism and Modernism. In the classroom, I will explore the cultural complexities of a rapidly expanding nation as revealed by representative authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and others. I will also emphasize the ways in which classic American literary texts have provided themes, styles, and narrative techniques to a distinctively American film culture. Through this course, students will strengthen their close reading and analytical writing skills. Attendance is highly recommended for prospective American Literature majors.Core Documentation
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, edited by Joyce E. Chaplin, New York, Norton, 2012, ISBN: 978-0393935615-- Joyce E. Chaplin, "Introduction", pp.xiii-xxvi.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "The Outline of Autobiography", pp. 195-98.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "Epitaph", (1728), p. 255.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "Junto Query on Human Perfection" (1732), p. 255-6.
-- Benjamin Franklin, "To Joseph Priestly" (1772), pp. 359-60.
-- Mark Twain, "The late Benjamin Franklin" (1870), pp. 306-8.
-- Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, Letters from An American Farmer, "Letter III: What Is An American", 1782.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/letter_03.asp
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple (1794), edited by Cathy Davidson, New York, Oxford UP 1986 or any other edition.
-- Rebecca Garden, "Confined to Bed: Illness, Narrative, and Female Authority", Literature and Medicine, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2013, pp. 40-62 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
John Davis, Il capitano John Smith e la principessa Pocahontas (1805), a cura di Alide Cagidemetrio, Venezia , Marsilio, 2001, ISBN: 978-8831762977
-- Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, Pocahontas,Walt Disney Pictures, 1995 (Roma Tre Video Library).
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), edited by Frances Smith Foster and Richard Yarborough, New York, Norton Second Critical Edition, 2018, ISBN: 978-0393614565
-- Frances Smith Foster and Richard Yarborough, "Introduction", pp. vii-xix.
-- Harriet Jacobs, "Public Statements", pp. 173-6.
-- Harriet Jacobs, "Correspondence", pp. 195-204.
-- Sara Antonelli, "Introduzione" all'edizione Italiana (Vita di una ragazza schiava, Roma, Donzelli, 2004, Roma Tre Book Library).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781554812691 (Be sure to order this title well in advance).
-- Robert D. Habich, "Introduction", pp. 11-40.
-- Nature (1836), pp. 47-86.
-- Circles (1841), pp. 127-138
-- The American Scholar (1837), pp. 87-104.
-- The Divinity School Adress (1838), pp. 105-121.
-- Experience (1844), pp. 164-185.
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government", 1849.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), edited by Stephen Railton, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-1554810048 (Be sure to order this title well in advance).
-- Stephen Railton, "Introduction", pp. 9-41.
-- "Introducing Huckleberry Finn (1895), pp. 380-1
-- "Chapter from My Autobiography, XIII", North American Review 184 (March 1907), pp. 381-4.
-- Alessandro Portelli, "Mark Twain e le parole proibite", il manifesto 2011.
http://alessandroportelli.blogspot.com/2011/01/mark-twain-e-le-parole-proibite.html
-- Robert O'Meally, "Blues per Huckleberry", Acoma 26 (primavera 2003), anno IX.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/06%20O%27Meally.pdf
-- Alessandro Portelli, "'Tu non andrai da solo', ovvero 'E va bene andrò all'inferno'. La dannazione volontaria di Hester Prynne", Acoma 6 (Inverno 1996), Anno III, pp.18-26.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/6portelli.pdf
Emily Dickinson, Silenzi, cura e traduzione di Barbara Lanati, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014, ISBN: 978-8807900853
-- Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion, 2016.
-- Ashby Bland Crowder, "Emily Dickinson's Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant", The Explicator, 71:4 (2013), pp. 236-9 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
-- Joel Martyr, "Emily Dickinson's Pyramid Scheme", The Explicator, 74:2 (2016), pp. 99-103 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edited by Ann Hiebert Alton, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, ISBN: 9781551111919 (Be sure to order this title well in advance).
-- "Introduction", pp. 9-32.
-- "The Composition and Publication of Little Women", pp. 497-99, 503.
-- "The Sources for Little Women", pp. 518-29.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, edited by Michael Gorra, New York, Norton, 2017, ISBN: 978-0393938531
-- "Preface to the 1908 Edition", pp. 3-13.
-- Hawthorne (1879), by Henry James, pp. 40-45
https://archive.org/details/hawthorne02jamegoog/page/n5/mode/2up
-- Robert Weisbuch, "Henry James and the Problem of Evil", pp. 604-13.
Herman Melville, "Billy Budd", in Tales, Poems, and Other Writings, edited by John Bryant, New York, Modern Library, 2002, page. 449-521.
-- "A Utilitarian View of the Monitor Fight", p. 343.
-- Lester H. Hunt, "Billy Budd: Melville's Dilemma", Philosophy and Literature, 26:2 (October 2002), pp. 273-95 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), edited by Monica Elbert, New York, Oxford UP, 1996, 978-0140189988
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), edited by Tony Tanner, New York, Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN: 978-0141182636
-- "Introduction", pp. vii-lv.
-- Sara Antonelli, "Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio", F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015), pp. 55-75 (Roma Tre Electronic Library).
-- Sara Antonelli, "Gatsby nostro contemporaneo", Acoma, 15 (Autunno-Inverno), 2018, 121-133.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/11%20Antonelli.pdf
Hans Bertens & Theo D’haen, American Literature: A History, London, Routledge, 2013.
-- "Beginnings to 1810"
-- "Towards cultural independence: 1810 to the Civil War"
-- "Civil War to World War I: 1865-1918"
Reference Bibliography
I will announce all secondary sources during the term, and publish a complete and definitive syllabus at the end of the course.Type of delivery of the course
Classes are held in Italian. Classes from March 9 to April 16, 2020, are stored on Moodle.Attendance
Students who are not able to attend classes will study the same syllabus/books above.Type of evaluation
Online oral exam, exclusively on Teams. Students should have a camera. A copy of your ID should be available on your Area Personale. For instructions and updates: http://portalestudente.uniroma3.it/accedi/area-riservata-docenti/istruzioni-docenti/esami-di-profitto/ In case of technical issues, before the exam please contact Giovanni Dell’Aglio: 0657338436 Raffaele Rizzuto: 0657338707