Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE I
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- GP005195
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Annalisa Volpone
- Teachers
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- Annalisa Volpone
- Hours
- 54 ore - Annalisa Volpone
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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 poetry) through the examples of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. - Reference texts
- James Joyce’s Ulysses (a selection of passages uploaded to Unistudium);
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (to be read integrally, full text upoloaded to Unistudium)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (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 poetry) through the examples of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. 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.