Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004932
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Camilla Caporicci
- Teachers
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- Camilla Caporicci
- Hours
- 54 ore - Camilla Caporicci
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature straniere
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/10
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course will offer an exploration of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. We will examine poetic texts by some of the major poets of the period, with particular attention to the genre of mythological and pastoral poem, and of love lyric. For what concerns drama, we will discuss two plays by William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra.
- Reference texts
- W. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garzanti, parallel text)
W. Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra (Garzanti, parallel text)
R. Camerlingo, Il Rinascimento e Shakespeare, in La Letteratura Inglese vol. 1, edited by P. Bertinetti, Einaudi.
To this chapter, students should add the study of the section dedicated to John Donne, in the chapter Il Seicento).
The texts of the poetic works will be available via Unistudium.
Further bibliography will be given during the course, and made available via Unistudium.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- The course aims to offer a basic knowledge of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature, as well as the tools and techniques to analyse poetic and dramatic texts. At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a good knowledge of the main cultural and literary phenomena of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England;
2. read, translate and analyse the primary texts, both through close reading techniques and in relation to their cultural context;
3. communicate the acquired knowledge with argumentative consistency and adequate critical language. - Prerequisites
- To follow the course, both attending and non-attending students should:
1. have a basic knowledge of the history, culture and literature of Renaissance Europe;
2. be able to read and understand the primary texts in the original language (English);
3. be able to communicate their knowledge in an effective way, both in oral and written form. - Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching
- Other information
- Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it)
- Learning verification modality
- The exam will consist of an ORAL test, on texts and topics examined during the course and on the assigned bibliography.
The course programme is valid for one year only.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- The course will offer an exploration of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. Among the various genres taken into account, particular attention will be devoted, on the one hand, to mythological and pastoral poem, and to love lyric, on the other, to Elizabethan drama. The exploration of the poetic production of the period will be aimed at investigating the relation between English poetry and the classical as well as European poetic traditions. We will read works by some of the major poets of the time, with special attention to the work of Richard Barnfield and William Shakespeare. For what concerns drama, after an exploration of the origins and main features of Elizabethan drama, we will examine two plays by William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony and Cleopatra. These plays will be studied with reference to both the general context of the Elizabethan theatre and the specificity of Shakespeare’s work. Both the dramatic and the poetic productions will be considered in light of the historical and cultural situation of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, and of the aesthetic, philosophical and religious paradigms of the time.