Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- 40A00040
- Curriculum
- Filosofia e storia
- Teacher
- Annalisa Volpone
- Teachers
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- Annalisa Volpone
- Hours
- 54 ore - Annalisa Volpone
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/10
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- This course focuses on the relationship between literature and complexity in a selection of works by William Blake, James Joyce and Alan Moore.
- Reference texts
- William Blake, Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820), James Joyce, chapter I.7 of
Finnegans Wake (1939) a selection of passages from Alan Moore's Jerusalem (2017).
The critical material will be uploaded to Unistudium - Educational objectives
- In this course students will learn how to approach literature through the notion of complexity. They will enhance their skills in textual comprehension and analysis, and in the acquisition of critical language
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the historical and literary context (important) and of the texts examined (useful).
- Teaching methods
- Although the course is mainly structured as face-to-face lessons, students are invited to comment and discuss about the lesson subject.
- Learning verification modality
- A 2500 word essay in English to be submitted at least 10 days before the exam session, and a brief oral discussion of the themes and texts explored in the course (15 minutes max).
- Extended program
- This course focuses on the relationship between literature and complexity in a selection of works by William Blake, James Joyce and Alan Moore. More precisely the course will discuss some plates from William Blake’s Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820), chapter 1.7 from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) and some passages from Alan Moore’s Jerusalem (2017). These works call for a reconfiguration of the very act of reading and of the reader’s involvement in the production of meaning. In a time in which we consume literature as a commodity and we are easily distracted, what is the value of reading a text that rejects and form of simplification and demands instead full attention and involvement? These are some of questions the this course will try to address.