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
https://www-jstor-org.biblio-proxy.uniroma3.it/stable/2936876?sid=primo&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Catalogo elettronico di Roma Tre)
La dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (1776)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=2&page=transcript
Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America (1787)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=9&page=transcript
Bill of Rights (1791)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=13&page=transcript
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. 259-60.
-- 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).
William Apess, "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man", 1833 URL
https://english.hku.hk/staff/kjohnson/PDF/engl6a_kj_apess_lookingglass.pdf
Edgar, Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition", 1846
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69390/the-philosophy-of-composition
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781554812691 (Attenzione: va ordinato con largo anticipo).
-- 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.
-- William Ellery Channing, "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli", p. 352-3.
-- Louisa May Alcott, "Transcendental Wild Oats", pp. 353-60.
-- Caroline Healey Dall, "Transcendentalism in New England", pp. 360-1.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Ralph Waldo Emerson", p. 378.
-- Walt Whitman, "Boston Common", pp. 381-2.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I lived for", in Walden (1854)
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/walden/
-- "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849)
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/
Frederick Douglass, "What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July",1852
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/civilwarrecon/cwcause/Douglass%20Fourth%20of%20July.pdf
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.
-- pp. 173-193.
-- Sara Antonelli, "Introduzione" all'edizione Italiana (Vita di una ragazza schiava, Roma, Donzelli, 2004, (Catalogo cartaceo di Roma Tre).
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.
-- "Selection from Louisa May Alcott's Journals and Letters e oltre", pp.608-614.
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.
-- Notes of a Son and Brother, pp.419-421
-- "Letter to Mary James", pp.425-27.
-- Notebooks, pp. 428-430.
-- Hawthorne (1879), by Henry James, pp. 40-45
https://archive.org/details/hawthorne02jamegoog/page/n5/mode/2up
Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Writings (1899), Petersborough, Broadview Press, 2011, ISBN 9781551113494 / 155111349X (Attenzione: va ordinato con largo anticipo, in cartaceo o ebook).
-- Introduzione, pp. 9-33.
-- The Awakening (1899)
-- "At Chenière Caminada" (1893)
-- "Madame Célestin's Divorce" (1894)
-- "A Respectable Woman" (1894)
-- Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885)
-- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "People of Color in Louisiana: Part I" (1916)
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of the Self" (1892)
Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folks, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, New York, Avon Books, 1999 ISBN: 978-0380015818.
-Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)
-- Capitoli I, III, VI, VII, XIV.
-W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
-- The Forethought
-- Our Spiritual Strivings (Cap. I)
-- On Mr. Booker T. Washington And Others (Cap. III)
-- On the Meaning of Progress (Cap. IV)
-- Of the Wings of Atlanta (Cap. V).
-- Of the Passing of the First-Born (Cap. XI)
-- Of the Coming of John (Cap. XIII)
-- Of the Sorrow Songs (Cap. XIV)
-- The After-Thought.
Stuart Hall, "Tearing Down the Veil", The Guardian, Feb 22, 2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview30
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), edited by Tony Tanner, New York, Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN: 978-0141182636
-- "Introduction", pp. vii-lv.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams", 1922
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/fsf/WINTER-DREAMS.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age", 1931
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/fitzgeraldfs-echoesofthejazzage/fitzgeraldfs-echoesofthejazzage-00-h.html,
Sara Antonelli, "Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio", F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015), pp. 55-75 (Catalogo elettronico di Roma Tre).
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
Perry Miller, "Errand into the Wilderness", William & Mary Quarterly, 10.1 (Jan 1953), pp. 3-32https://www-jstor-org.biblio-proxy.uniroma3.it/stable/2936876?sid=primo&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Catalogo elettronico di Roma Tre)
La dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (1776)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=2&page=transcript
Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America (1787)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=9&page=transcript
Bill of Rights (1791)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=13&page=transcript
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. 259-60.
-- 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).
William Apess, "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man", 1833 URL
https://english.hku.hk/staff/kjohnson/PDF/engl6a_kj_apess_lookingglass.pdf
Edgar, Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition", 1846
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69390/the-philosophy-of-composition
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781554812691 (Attenzione: va ordinato con largo anticipo).
-- 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.
-- William Ellery Channing, "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli", p. 352-3.
-- Louisa May Alcott, "Transcendental Wild Oats", pp. 353-60.
-- Caroline Healey Dall, "Transcendentalism in New England", pp. 360-1.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Ralph Waldo Emerson", p. 378.
-- Walt Whitman, "Boston Common", pp. 381-2.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I lived for", in Walden (1854)
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/walden/
-- "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849)
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/
Frederick Douglass, "What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July",1852
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/civilwarrecon/cwcause/Douglass%20Fourth%20of%20July.pdf
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.
-- pp. 173-193.
-- Sara Antonelli, "Introduzione" all'edizione Italiana (Vita di una ragazza schiava, Roma, Donzelli, 2004, (Catalogo cartaceo di Roma Tre).
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.
-- "Selection from Louisa May Alcott's Journals and Letters e oltre", pp.608-614.
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.
-- Notes of a Son and Brother, pp.419-421
-- "Letter to Mary James", pp.425-27.
-- Notebooks, pp. 428-430.
-- Hawthorne (1879), by Henry James, pp. 40-45
https://archive.org/details/hawthorne02jamegoog/page/n5/mode/2up
Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Writings (1899), Petersborough, Broadview Press, 2011, ISBN 9781551113494 / 155111349X (Attenzione: va ordinato con largo anticipo, in cartaceo o ebook).
-- Introduzione, pp. 9-33.
-- The Awakening (1899)
-- "At Chenière Caminada" (1893)
-- "Madame Célestin's Divorce" (1894)
-- "A Respectable Woman" (1894)
-- Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885)
-- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "People of Color in Louisiana: Part I" (1916)
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of the Self" (1892)
Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folks, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, New York, Avon Books, 1999 ISBN: 978-0380015818.
-Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)
-- Capitoli I, III, VI, VII, XIV.
-W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
-- The Forethought
-- Our Spiritual Strivings (Cap. I)
-- On Mr. Booker T. Washington And Others (Cap. III)
-- On the Meaning of Progress (Cap. IV)
-- Of the Wings of Atlanta (Cap. V).
-- Of the Passing of the First-Born (Cap. XI)
-- Of the Coming of John (Cap. XIII)
-- Of the Sorrow Songs (Cap. XIV)
-- The After-Thought.
Stuart Hall, "Tearing Down the Veil", The Guardian, Feb 22, 2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview30
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), edited by Tony Tanner, New York, Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN: 978-0141182636
-- "Introduction", pp. vii-lv.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams", 1922
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/fsf/WINTER-DREAMS.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age", 1931
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/fitzgeraldfs-echoesofthejazzage/fitzgeraldfs-echoesofthejazzage-00-h.html,
Sara Antonelli, "Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio", F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015), pp. 55-75 (Catalogo elettronico di Roma Tre).
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"
Type of delivery of the course
Classes are held in Italian. Course calendar available on Moodle. Materiali didattici are stored on Moodle.Attendance
Students who are not able to attend classes will study the same syllabus/books above.Type of evaluation
TBA