Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I

Course
Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
Study-unit Code
GP005195
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Annalisa Volpone
Teachers
  • Annalisa Volpone
Hours
  • 54 ore - Annalisa Volpone
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
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
Narrative strategies in modernism: the reinvention of the novel.


This course focuses on the narrative strategies of modernism (novel and short stories) through the examples of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.
Reference texts
Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs (a selection of passages uploaded to Unistudium);
James Joyce’s Ulysses (a selection of passages uploaded to Unistudium);
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (to be read integrally, full text upoloaded to Unistudium)
Katherine Mansfield, The Prelude (to be read integrally full text uploaded to Unistudium).
The critical material will be uploaded to Unistudium.
Educational objectives
In this course an in-depth analysis of the major forms of British modernism will be offered to students. They 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 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 narrative strategies of modernism (novel and short stories) through the examples of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Particular attention will be given on the question of the novel as a genre, on the representation of consciousness and on the author/reader relationship.
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