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.
American fictions: plots and counterplots is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It allows students to consolidate their language skills as well as their knowledge of North American literary phenomena from a global and transcultural perspective. Classes focus on the analysis of plots, themes, and characters across narrative genres – such as the short story, the novel, the romance, the serial – conducive to an understanding of the Anglo-American literary imagination.
At the end of the module students will be able to: apply their methodological and educational competence to the analysis of literary phenomena from a transcultural perspective; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content; express an autonomous and accurate critical assessment.
Requirements: Students must have already taken North American literatures and visual cultures.
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.
American fictions: plots and counterplots is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It allows students to consolidate their language skills as well as their knowledge of North American literary phenomena from a global and transcultural perspective. Classes focus on the analysis of plots, themes, and characters across narrative genres – such as the short story, the novel, the romance, the serial – conducive to an understanding of the Anglo-American literary imagination.
At the end of the module students will be able to: apply their methodological and educational competence to the analysis of literary phenomena from a transcultural perspective; communicate at an advanced level the disciplinary content; express an autonomous and accurate critical assessment.
Requirements: Students must have already taken North American literatures and visual cultures.
teacher profile teaching materials
Prof.. Fred L. Gardaphe Corsi di laurea magistrale SSD L-Lin/11
20710480 - American Fictions: Plots and Counterplots
2nd year MA Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation
(36 hours – 6 CFU; meeting twice a week – each class is 2 hours)
This course is focused on the way minority writers in the U.S.A. fashion their novels, stories and poetry in relation to what has been considered as traditonal and canonical U.S. American literature. Through the example of Italian American writers, students will become aware of the way minority cultures have impacted the definitions of U.S. American literature through realism, naturalism, modernism and postmodernism.
Christ in Concrete (Pietro di Donato, 1939)
Paper Fish (Tina DeRosa, 1980)
Short Fiction in From the Margin
“Nonna,” (Tony Ardizzone)
“Drowning,” (Mary Bucci Bush)
“Morra, Amore,” (Fred L. Gardaphe)
“The Last Godfather,” (Anthony Valerio)
“My Grandfather’s Suit,” (Lisa Ruffolo)
Poetry in From the Margin
M. Gillan
L. Ferlinghetti
D. di Prima
D. Gioseffi
Programme
The course is focused on the Hollywood Novel, a subgenre of twentieth century American novel, including writers, such as Fitzgerald and West, who worked for cinema as screenplayers and later reworked their experience in works that are not biographical but metaphorically represent American life through Hollywood lenses. Themes will be discussed related to alienation and mass-production. Texts will allow a different discussion about literature and cinema shifting from adaptation to reshaping literary language in cinematic terms. A recent TV series and an older movie about the end of classical Hollywood will be shown and discussed during the extra academic classes.Prof.. Fred L. Gardaphe Corsi di laurea magistrale SSD L-Lin/11
20710480 - American Fictions: Plots and Counterplots
2nd year MA Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation
(36 hours – 6 CFU; meeting twice a week – each class is 2 hours)
This course is focused on the way minority writers in the U.S.A. fashion their novels, stories and poetry in relation to what has been considered as traditonal and canonical U.S. American literature. Through the example of Italian American writers, students will become aware of the way minority cultures have impacted the definitions of U.S. American literature through realism, naturalism, modernism and postmodernism.
Core Documentation
NovelsChrist in Concrete (Pietro di Donato, 1939)
Paper Fish (Tina DeRosa, 1980)
Short Fiction in From the Margin
“Nonna,” (Tony Ardizzone)
“Drowning,” (Mary Bucci Bush)
“Morra, Amore,” (Fred L. Gardaphe)
“The Last Godfather,” (Anthony Valerio)
“My Grandfather’s Suit,” (Lisa Ruffolo)
Poetry in From the Margin
M. Gillan
L. Ferlinghetti
D. di Prima
D. Gioseffi
Reference Bibliography
Criticism (Prof. Maggitti) - Rhodes, Chip, Theorizing the Hollywood Novel: Aesthetics, Psychoanalytic Desire, and History in Id., Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel, University of Iowa Press, 2008, pp. 1-24 (online text in SBA link: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uniroma3-ebooks/reader.action?docID=843265 - Fleeting Fictions:Film Technology, Adaptation, and a History of the Hollywood Novel, 1920-1950 (online text in SBA link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dh5x6jkCriticism F. Gardaphe, Italian Signs, American Streets. book A. Tamburri, P. Giordano and F. Gardaphe, From the Margin. book.Type of delivery of the course
The course will be given in Italian. English will be used when dealing with textual analysis.Type of evaluation
Students will need to bring with them the literary texts, either paper or e-texts. The exam will be mostly in Italian, with one or two questions in English. Students will also be asked to translate or comment a passage from a literary text. In the oral evaluation assignments given on Teams during the course will be relevant, as much as to allow students who attended and did the assignments to discuss only a section of the programme, not covered by the assignments.