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. The English Literature II course is among the core courses of the “Foreign Literatures” area and aims to achieve the objective outlined above. It provides students with a solid knowledge and understanding of English literature from the Elizabethan Age to Romanticism, with particular emphasis on intercultural and transcultural dynamics, as well as theoretical and methodological debates. Additionally, it provides students with essential tools and methodologies for literary, cultural, and historical analysis. Students will develop strong reading skills and a fair degree of critical and interpretative autonomy when engaging with key texts in their original language. They will also acquire the necessary knowledge to translate, rewrite, and adapt these texts into Italian, also from a transmedia perspective. Furthermore, students will be able to analyse and convey subject-specific knowledge in both specialist and non-specialist intercultural contexts, with practical applications in promoting local heritage and cultural assets. Requirements: English Literature I + English Language and Translation I.
Canali
teacher profile teaching materials
William Shakespeare, "King Lear" (1606); "Sonnets" (1609) (selected sonnets).
Aphra Behn, "The Rover" (1677) (Penguin Classics).
Daniel Defoe, "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" (1724) (Oxford World's Classics).
Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) (Penguin Classics).
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park" (1814) (Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics);
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Frankenstein" (1818) (Oxford World's Classics o Penguin Classics).
Films to be announced
Programme
This course explores the representation of the female condition in a selection of texts from Shakespeare to Mary Shelley. Through the analysis of plays, novels, essays, and poems, written by male and female authors from the end of the Sixteenth century to the beginning of the Nineteenth, we will explore the ways in which women have been narrated, and their difficult condition, their voices, their predicament represented. We will watch a selection of film adaptations of some of the texts considered and will investigate what happens to a story when it travels across media.Core Documentation
Primary texts:William Shakespeare, "King Lear" (1606); "Sonnets" (1609) (selected sonnets).
Aphra Behn, "The Rover" (1677) (Penguin Classics).
Daniel Defoe, "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" (1724) (Oxford World's Classics).
Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) (Penguin Classics).
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park" (1814) (Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics);
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Frankenstein" (1818) (Oxford World's Classics o Penguin Classics).
Films to be announced
Type of delivery of the course
Lectures will be held on campus, unless anti-Covid measures require online teaching.The course will be taught through a combination of lectures and activities involving group discussion. We will make use of audiovisual material. Attendance is highly recommended. Class participation will be one of the criteria for the final evaluation.Attendance
Attendance is highly recommendedType of evaluation
The exam, in oral form, will take place at the end of the course. During the course, however, students will be temporarily evaluated through learning activities (short presentations or critical-creative response to chosen texts). teacher profile teaching materials
Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, con testo a fronte, traduzione di Marcello Corrente, La quercia fiorita
William Shakespeare, La tempesta, con testo a fronte, traduzione di Agostino Lombardo, Feltrinelli
John Milton, Paradise Lost (con testo a fronte), traduzione a cura di Roberto Senesi,
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, con testo a fronte, traduzione di Viola Papetti, BUR
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Oxford University Press
English Literature Handbooks
Ingo Berensmeyer, A Short Media History of English Literature, De Gruyter, 2022 (accessibile online da Roma Tre Discovery)
A History of English Literature (to be defined)
Testi critici
Extracts from Maddalena Pennacchia, Shakespeare intermediale (2012) e Adattamento, appropriazione, condivisione di un classico (2018)
Further critical materials will be uploaded on Moodle at the beginning of the course
Programme
The course examines some texts of theatre, poetry and fiction in the three centuries from the Renaissance to the end of the Long Eighteenth Century, focusing on some theoretical issues related to intertextuality, literary genres, identity fashioning, and gender relations, with particular attention to the materiality of literary communication and media.Core Documentation
Set textsPhilip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, con testo a fronte, traduzione di Marcello Corrente, La quercia fiorita
William Shakespeare, La tempesta, con testo a fronte, traduzione di Agostino Lombardo, Feltrinelli
John Milton, Paradise Lost (con testo a fronte), traduzione a cura di Roberto Senesi,
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, con testo a fronte, traduzione di Viola Papetti, BUR
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Oxford University Press
English Literature Handbooks
Ingo Berensmeyer, A Short Media History of English Literature, De Gruyter, 2022 (accessibile online da Roma Tre Discovery)
A History of English Literature (to be defined)
Testi critici
Extracts from Maddalena Pennacchia, Shakespeare intermediale (2012) e Adattamento, appropriazione, condivisione di un classico (2018)
Further critical materials will be uploaded on Moodle at the beginning of the course
Attendance
strongly advisedType of evaluation
The examination is oral and in presence but always includes one or more activities during the course (in itinere tests); for those who are unable to attend, it is compulsory to make an appointment with the lecturer during office hours AT THE BEGINNING of the course to agree on the activity to be assigned. Book the appointment by email with the subject: Activities for English Literature II The examination is divided into three parts 1) Commentary and evaluation of the production relating to the activities 2) A question in English on the textbooks relating to the historical-literary panorama of the three centuries under examination 3) A question on one or more primary texts in the programme: contextualisation, translation and textual analysis.