Unit ANGLOAMERICAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004935
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Mirella Vallone
- Teachers
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- Mirella Vallone
- Hours
- 54 ore - Mirella Vallone
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/11
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Faith in literature:religion, culture, and identity in the USA
The course will examine the role played by religion in shaping American identity and culture. It will focus on the Puritan vision of the New World (the theological imagination and the rhetorical structures Puritans developed), the coexistence of religious beliefs and secularism in the XVIII century, the formation of national culture, American civil religion, religious pluralism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Texts of different genres will be the lens through which the complex interactions of identity, culture, religion, and society in the United States wil be analyzed. - Reference texts
- The reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course. Course materials will be uploaded on the e-learning platform Unistudium.
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive overview of American history and literature, and with tools for the analysis of literary texts. At the end of the course students should be able to recognize the relevance of issues such as nation, identity, race, and religion, and their interconnection in the United States.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know how to tackle the course, students must have basic notions for the analysis of literary texts.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination.
- Extended program
- Faith in literature: religion, culture, and identity in the USA
The course will examine the role played by religion in shaping American identity and culture. It will focus on the Puritan vision of the New World (the theological imagination and the rhetorical structures Puritans developed), the coexistence of religious beliefs and secularism in the XVIII century, the formation of national culture, American civil religion, religious pluralism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Texts of different genres will be the lens through which analyze the complex interactions of identity, culture, religion, and society in the United States.