Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I

Course
Foreign languages and cultures
Study-unit Code
GP004932
Curriculum
In all curricula
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2020/21
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Letterature straniere
Academic discipline
L-LIN/10
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare

ENGLISH LITERATURE I - Cognomi A-L

Code GP004932
CFU 9
Teacher Rosanna Camerlingo
Teachers
  • Rosanna Camerlingo
Hours
  • 54 ore - Rosanna Camerlingo
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Letterature straniere
Academic discipline L-LIN/10
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The course intends to offer a survey of English Literature in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. It will focus on the most important authors of the period: William Shakespeare and John Milton. We will read: W. Shakespeare’s Othello and Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Books I, V and IX of Milton’s Paradise Lost,within the historical and linguistic circumstances that permitted the rise of English Literature.
Reference texts W. Shakespeare, King Lear (Garzanti testo a fronte) John Milton, Paradise Lost

R. Camerlingo, Il Rinascimento e Shakespeare, in La Letteratura Inglese vol. 1, A cura di P. Bertinetti, Einaudi.
Further critical essays will be given during the course and will be published on unistudium.
Educational objectives
This teaching aims to provide a basic knowledge of sixteenth and seventeenth century English Liberature. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the primary texts and of their historical framework.
2. Identify aesthetic principles of literature, arts and humanities.
3. Select and use the vocabulary of the humanities at an appropriate intellectual level.
4. Demonstrate the skill of reading, translating and commenting on the texts.
Prerequisites
In order to be able to know how to tackle the course, students must have the basic notions of the history of the Western Humanistic Tradition; are expected to be able to read primary texts in their original language; must be able to read critically and formulate relevant conclusions (critical thinking);must have acquired proficiency in communication (writing, reading, listening skills).These are competences that the student should have already acquired in his/her school and university curriculum. These preconditions are valid both for attending and not attending students.
Teaching methods lessons, films, power point
Learning verification modality
The exam is written only for the first call of June. It will consist in 4 questions concerning the issues dealt with during the course, and in a comment on a passage taken from the primary texts read in class. In the following calls the exam consists in a reading and translation of passages taken from the primary texts, and in a discussion about the issues there contained. The course program is valid only for one academic year.
Extended program
This teaching aims to provide a basic knowledge of sixteenth and seventeenth century English Liberature. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the primary texts and of their historical framework.
2. Identify aesthetic principles of literature, arts and humanities.
3. Select and use the vocabulary of the humanities at an appropriate intellectual level.
4. Demonstrate the skill of reading, translating and commenting on the texts.

ENGLISH LITERATURE I - Cognomi M-Z

Code GP004932
CFU 9
Teacher Camilla Caporicci
Teachers
  • Camilla Caporicci
Hours
  • 54 ore - Camilla Caporicci
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Letterature straniere
Academic discipline L-LIN/10
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The course will offer an exploration of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature, with a particular focus on drama and lyric poetry. For what concerns the first genre, we will read and discuss two plays by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. For what concerns poetry, we will examine texts by some of the major poets of the period, including Thomas Wyatt; Philip Sidney; Richard Barnfield, Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; John Donne; Aemilia Lanier.
Reference texts W. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Garzanti or Einaudi, parallel text)

W. Shakespeare: Hamlet (Marsilio, parallel text)

R. Camerlingo, Il Rinascimento e Shakespeare, in La Letteratura Inglese vol. 1, edited by P. Bertinetti, Einaudi.

C. Caporicci, Introduzione to W. Shakespeare, Sonetti, in W. Shakespeare, Tutte le opere, Bompiani. The text will be available via Unistudium.

The texts of the poetic works will be available via Unistudium.

Further bibliography will be given during the course.
Educational objectives The course aims to offer a basic knowledge of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature, as well as the tools and techniques to analyse poetic and dramatic texts. At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a good knowledge of the main cultural and literary phenomena of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England;
2. read, translate and analyse the primary texts, both through close reading techniques and in relation to their cultural context;
3. communicate the acquired knowledge with argumentative consistency and adequate critical language.
Prerequisites To follow the course, both attending and non-attending students should:
1. have a basic knowledge of the history, culture and literature of Renaissance Europe;
2. be able to read and understand the primary texts in the original language (English);
3. be able to communicate their knowledge in an effective way, both in oral and written form.
Teaching methods Frontal teaching
Learning verification modality The ORAL exam will consist of a discussion on topics examined in the course and on the assigned bibliography.

The course programme is valid for one year only.
Extended program The course will offer an exploration of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. Among the various genres taken into account, particular attention will be devoted to drama and lyric poetry, both amorous and religious. For what concerns the first genre, after an exploration of the origins and main features of Elizabethan drama, we will examine two plays by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. These plays will be studied with reference to both the general context of the Elizabethan theatre and the specificity of Shakespeare’s work. The exploration of the poetic production of the period will be aimed at investigating the relation between English and European poetic traditions, the evolution of the sonnet tradition, and the relation between amorous and religious poetry. We will read works by some of the major poets of the time, including Thomas Wyatt; Philip Sidney; Richard Barnfield, Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; John Donne; Aemilia Lanier. Both the dramatic and the poetic productions will be considered in light of the historical and cultural situation of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, and of the aesthetic, philosophical and religious paradigms of the time.
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