Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP005049
- Curriculum
- Filosofia ed economia civile
- Teacher
- Annalisa Volpone
- Teachers
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- Annalisa Volpone
- Hours
- 54 ore - Annalisa Volpone
- 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
- Ecocriticism and sustainability in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith (via Virginia Woolf).
This course focuses on the notion of ecocriticism and sustainability in a selection of novels by Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith. In particular, the course discusses how these writers represent the man/environment relationship, in a world that seems to have come to its final stage. - Reference texts
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves (integral reading, text uploaded to Unistudium)
Jeanette Winterson, The Lighthousekeeping (London: Mariner Books, 2006)
Ali Smith, Like (London: Virago, 1997)
The critical material will be uploaded to Unistudium - Educational objectives
- In this course an in-depth analysis of the major forms of ecological consciousness in the fiction of Winterson and Smith. The reading of the texts will enhance their skills in textual comprehension and analysis, and in the acquisition of a literary 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 lecture 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 notion of ecocriticism and sustainability in a selection of novels by Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith. In particular, the course discusses how these writers represent the man/environment relationship, in a world that seems to have come to its final stage. Following Woolf’s example, their narrative shares the essentially modernist confidence in the redemptive, transformative value of art. Whereby fiction can transform the world into an environment that respects and protects all beings and entities.