Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I

Course: Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
Study-unit Code: GP005195
Curriculum: In all curricula
Teacher: Annalisa Volpone
CFU: 9
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

ENGLISH LITERATURE I - Cognomi A-L

Code	GP005195
CFU	9
Teacher	Annalisa Volpone
Teachers	Annalisa Volpone
Hours	54 ore - Annalisa Volpone
Learning activities	Affine/integrativa
Area	Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline	L-LIN/10
Type of study-unit	Opzionale (Optional)
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.

ENGLISH LITERATURE I - Cognomi M-Z

Code	GP005195
CFU	9
Teacher	Mirella Vallone
Teachers	Mirella Vallone
Hours	54 ore - Mirella Vallone
Learning activities	Affine/integrativa
Area	Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline	L-LIN/10
Type of study-unit	Opzionale (Optional)
Language of instruction	English
Contents	“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”: Trauma and the Literary Imagination. Starting from a historical and theoretical survey of trauma studies, the course will examine the literary representation of trauma, both personal and collective, focusing on how traumatic experience shapes and is shaped by language, on trauma’s impact on the self’s emotional organization and perception of the external world, and on trauma’s impact on memory. The course will analyze the traumatic effects of the Great War on T.S. Eliot’s literary imagination in The Waste Land, the place of art in time of war in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, and the healing power of words in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
Reference texts	Beside the literary works mentioned, the reading list will include a selection of theoretical essays on trauma studies and of critical essays on the works and authors of the course. The reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Educational objectives	Students will have a better understanding of the complex interactions of history, culture, and literature. They will be able to produce their own interpretation of literary texts using different analytical tools.
Prerequisites	Knowledge of English language and culture, and of tools for literary analysis.
Teaching methods	Lectures and seminars.
Learning verification modality	Oral examination.
Extended program	“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”: Trauma and the Literary Imagination Starting from a historical and theoretical survey of trauma studies, the course will examine the literary representation of trauma, both personal and collective, focusing on how traumatic experience shapes and is shaped by language, on trauma’s impact on the self’s emotional organization and perception of the external world, and on trauma’s impact on memory. The course will analyze the traumatic effects of the Great War on T.S. Eliot’s literary imagination in The Waste Land, the place of art in time of war in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, and the healing power of words in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.