Unit American Literature
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- A001097
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Mirella Vallone
- Teachers
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- Mirella Vallone
- Hours
- 54 ore - Mirella Vallone
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- 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
- “In the chamber of consciousness”: Henry James and Emily Dickinson
This course takes into examination two canonic authors of nineteenth-century American literature who contributed, with their experimentations, to the renovation of fiction and poetry and whose works had a great influence on twentieth-century literature. The works present in the reading list will be analyzed in relation to their historical, social, religious, and cultural context. The analysis will focus on linguistic and formal experimentations, on the representation of consciousness, and on the meditations the texts provide on the status of women in nineteenth-century social institutions and cultural practices. - Reference texts
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady.
Henry James, Literary Criticism, Library of America.
Emily Dickinson, A selection of poems and letters.
Texts of literary criticism will be included in the reading list at the beginning of the course. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to situate the primary texts included in the reading list in their historical, cultural, and literary context; to read and translate the literary works and perform a formal text analysis; 3. to comment on the literary works and debate the issues of the course with an appropriate critical language.
- Prerequisites
- Basic notions on the analysis of literary texts.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and seminars.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination based on the reading, analysis and comment on the texts and issues of the course.
- Extended program
- “In the chamber of consciousness”: Henry James and Emily Dickinson
This course takes into examination two canonic authors of nineteenth-century American literature who contributed, with their experimentations, to the renovation of fiction and poetry and whose works had a great influence on twentieth-century literature. The works present in the reading list will be analyzed in relation to their historical, social, religious, and cultural context. The analysis will focus on linguistic and formal experimentations, on the representation of consciousness, and on the meditations the texts provide on the status of women in nineteenth-century social institutions and cultural practices.