Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Literature and forms is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It provides students with advanced critical knowledge and methodologies for the analysis of literary texts in the Anglophone area allowing them to employ the theoretical and practical tools related to the teaching of literature. It also allows students to enhance their linguistic-communicative skills and fosters their independent use of the most important theoretical tools for an in-depth analysis of literary texts and phenomena.
At the end of the module students will be able to: autonomously analyse literary texts and phenomena employing the theoretical, critical, educational, and practical tools they have acquired; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content.
Prerequisites: students enrolled in other degree programmes are allowed to select this module if they have gained at least 12 CFU in English Literature in their bachelor’s degree, and can certify the attainment of a B2 level of English.
Note: for LM37 students enrolled in the international curriculum “English and Anglo-American Studies” (English-Angloamerican Literature), this module can be selected as an associated subject (“materia affine”) to the literature of specialisation.
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Literature and forms is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It provides students with advanced critical knowledge and methodologies for the analysis of literary texts in the Anglophone area allowing them to employ the theoretical and practical tools related to the teaching of literature. It also allows students to enhance their linguistic-communicative skills and fosters their independent use of the most important theoretical tools for an in-depth analysis of literary texts and phenomena.
At the end of the module students will be able to: autonomously analyse literary texts and phenomena employing the theoretical, critical, educational, and practical tools they have acquired; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content.
Prerequisites: students enrolled in other degree programmes are allowed to select this module if they have gained at least 12 CFU in English Literature in their bachelor’s degree, and can certify the attainment of a B2 level of English.
Note: for LM37 students enrolled in the international curriculum “English and Anglo-American Studies” (English-Angloamerican Literature), this module can be selected as an associated subject (“materia affine”) to the literature of specialisation.
teacher profile teaching materials
It is interesting to note that, while the difficult and impersonal poetry of the 'modernists' was presented as a rebellion against the kind of poetry written over the past three centuries, the modernist novel was hailed instead as the culmination of an evolution that led the crude creations of a Daniel Defoe to become finally an art form.
Perhaps not enough thought has been given to the fact that many of the modernist authors - and certainly the major ones - were foreigners; some lived in London as expatriates, but they were a minority: others resided in the English countryside, others in Europe.
The course will be an opportunity for a reflection on the meaning of "modernism", and on how to conceptualize that period through the notion of "modernisms". We will study three novels by modernists - only one of which is 'English' - and a selection of poetic works, which we will address by contrasting the American priests of "modernist" poetry and other poets. It will be interesting to hear what the students think about these poems.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams vs. W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, D. H. Lawrence e Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost
Programme
In the teaching of English literature, the term 'English (High) Modernism' has long been used to identify, among the poems and novels written in the United Kingdom from the early twentieth century to the post-war period, a body of works so unique that it required a new academic discipline - English Studies - to make them understandable to the English public.It is interesting to note that, while the difficult and impersonal poetry of the 'modernists' was presented as a rebellion against the kind of poetry written over the past three centuries, the modernist novel was hailed instead as the culmination of an evolution that led the crude creations of a Daniel Defoe to become finally an art form.
Perhaps not enough thought has been given to the fact that many of the modernist authors - and certainly the major ones - were foreigners; some lived in London as expatriates, but they were a minority: others resided in the English countryside, others in Europe.
The course will be an opportunity for a reflection on the meaning of "modernism", and on how to conceptualize that period through the notion of "modernisms". We will study three novels by modernists - only one of which is 'English' - and a selection of poetic works, which we will address by contrasting the American priests of "modernist" poetry and other poets. It will be interesting to hear what the students think about these poems.
Core Documentation
Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams vs. W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, D. H. Lawrence e Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost
Type of delivery of the course
In-class teaching. Students will be able to follow online. Classes will be held mostly in English when foreign students will be present in class.Type of evaluation
Oral exam.