Unit PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE IN THE U.S.A
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A000420
- Curriculum
- Filosofia e psicologia
- Teacher
- Alessandro Clericuzio
- Teachers
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- Alessandro Clericuzio
- Hours
- 54 ore - Alessandro Clericuzio
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- 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
- Connections between philosophy and classic American literature, from the texts of the American Renaissance to the authors neglected by Mathiessen.
- Reference texts
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"; "The Black Cat" ; James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans"; Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" and "The Poet" (from the Norton Anthology of American Literature); Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"; Nathanael Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"; Poems by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
- Educational objectives
- Students are supposed to gain a profound knowledge of the cultural milieu of nineteenth-century America. The connections between philosophy and literature will be addressed through a detailed reading and investigation of canonic texts.
- Prerequisites
- A very good knowledge of English, at least B2 (intermediate to upper intermediate) of the European framework.
- Teaching methods
- Traditional classes and experimental activities.
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam, along a constant participation during classes.
- Extended program
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"; "The Black Cat" ; James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans"; Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" and "The Poet" (from the Norton Anthology of American Literature); Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"; Nathanael Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"; Poems by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Most of these texts are available in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, held at the UniPg Library.