20710478 - Text and Performance

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.

Text and performance is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It allows students to strengthen their linguistic and communicative skills and their ability to interpret literary phenomena; it also enhances their competence in teaching literature and fosters their capacity for autonomous and accurate critical evaluation.
At the end of the module students will be able to: employ advanced theoretical skills in the field of literary translation as well as in the analysis of the interrelationships between literary language and other expressive forms, also from an intermedial perspective; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content.

Requirements: Students must have already taken Literature and Forms.
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Programme

From Literary Text to Performance in Theatre, Cinema and Beyond: Shakespeare and Jane Austen

The programme aims to explore the adaptive processes through which a literary text can be performed in a variety of media. Chosen case studies will be Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Core Documentation

Primary Texts
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ed by John Wilders, Arden
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed by James Kinsley, Oxford University Pres

Secondary Texts
Domenico Lovascio (ed), Antony and Cleopatra. A Critical Reader, Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Maddalena Pennacchia, Adattamento, appropriazione, condivisione di un classico: Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen
More references will be given over the period when the module is delivered and uploaded on Moodle

Reference Bibliography

Primary Texts William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ed by John Wilders, Arden Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed by James Kinsley, Oxford University Pres Secondary Texts Domenico Lovascio (ed), Antony and Cleopatra. A Critical Reader, Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Maddalena Pennacchia, Adattamento, appropriazione, condivisione di un classico: Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen More references will be given over the period when the module is delivered and uploaded on Moodle

Type of delivery of the course

The course is taught in English and in presence (unless differently stated by the University regulation)

Type of evaluation

Oral exam plus a written composition to be done either in the period of the course (in itinere) or before the oral test.