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.
Literary mindscapes is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It enables students to consolidate their competence in the field of Anglophone literatures; it also allows them to further enhance their theoretical and methodological skills in order to achieve a thoroughly independent critical assessment in the philological analysis of literary texts and/or phenomena, also with reference to the processes of transcultural translation.
At the end of the module students will be able to: apply their knowledge to the analysis of literary texts and/or phenomena; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content; analyse the processes of transcultural translation.
Requirements: Students must have already taken Literature and Forms.
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.
Literary mindscapes is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It enables students to consolidate their competence in the field of Anglophone literatures; it also allows them to further enhance their theoretical and methodological skills in order to achieve a thoroughly independent critical assessment in the philological analysis of literary texts and/or phenomena, also with reference to the processes of transcultural translation.
At the end of the module students will be able to: apply their knowledge to the analysis of literary texts and/or phenomena; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content; analyse the processes of transcultural translation.
Requirements: Students must have already taken Literature and Forms.
teacher profile teaching materials
In this course we will explore the island trope in a selection of texts, from R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island to Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. In these narratives, the island features at times as a place of adventure, at other times as a theatre where humanity is tested, as a projection of psychotic fantasies, as an artificial paradise, or as a place of violence and squalor. In its latest, astonishing metamorphosis, the island has become a gigantic, floating garbage patch. In this way, islands continue to inspire the imagination of both writers and readers.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883)
William Golding, The Lord of the Flies (1954)
V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage (1962)
Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
Films to be announced.
Programme
Island narratives and the rhetoric of nostalgiaIn this course we will explore the island trope in a selection of texts, from R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island to Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. In these narratives, the island features at times as a place of adventure, at other times as a theatre where humanity is tested, as a projection of psychotic fantasies, as an artificial paradise, or as a place of violence and squalor. In its latest, astonishing metamorphosis, the island has become a gigantic, floating garbage patch. In this way, islands continue to inspire the imagination of both writers and readers.
Core Documentation
Primary Texts:Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883)
William Golding, The Lord of the Flies (1954)
V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage (1962)
Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
Films to be announced.
Reference Bibliography
Secondary readings (provisional): Johannes Riquet, The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics, OUP 2019 (capitoli scelti) Diana Loxley, Problematic Shores: The Literature of Islands, Palgrave Macmillan 1990 (capitoli scelti)Type of delivery of the course
Lectures will be held on campus, unless anti-Covid measures require online teaching.The course will be taught in the form of a seminar with great emphasis on group discussion. Students are encouraged to read the texts before the courses starts. Attendance is highly recommended. Class participation will be one of the criteria for the final evaluation.Type of evaluation
A 3000 words essay, to be discussed during the exam. The essay must be submitted at least a week before the date of the exam.