Unit English Literature II
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- A000383
- Curriculum
- Lingue e letterature
- Teacher
- Camilla Caporicci
- Teachers
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- Camilla Caporicci
- Hours
- 54 ore - Camilla Caporicci
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Lingue e letterature moderne
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/10
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- The course explores the deep and complex connections between the biblical text, with particular refence to the Song of Songs, and the poetic output, both sacred and secular, in sixteenth-century England.
- Reference texts
- The texts of texts of the poetic works will be available via Unistudium: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php in the page dedicated to the course English Literature II.
The section will include texts by William Baldwin, Gervase Markham, Henry Constable, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth I, Bartholomew Griffin, Thomas Campion, Richard Barnfield, ed Edmund Spenser.
Critical bibliography will be given during the course, and made available via Unistudium: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php in the page dedicated to the course English Literature II.
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
- By the end of the course, students will have gained the following:
Knowledge of the main poetic genres of sixteenth-century England and their protagonists, with specific attention to the historical and cultural period and to the relationship between poetic and biblical text.
Ability to analyse the primary texts, both through close reading techniques and in relation to their historico-cultural context, and to efficaciously communicate the acquired knowledge consistently and through an adequate critical language.
An adequate level of critical judgement and the ability to recognize and understand the dynamics of intertextuality and interdiscursivity. - Prerequisites
- 1. A good knowledge of Renaissance history, culture, and literature
2. The ability to understand the lectures, in English, and to read and comprehend the primary texts, presented in the original language.
3. The ability to adequately communicate their knowledge. - Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching, with slides.
Close reading: in-depth reading and analysis of selected passages.
Class discussions: active participation in the exchange of opinions and interpretations. - 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 of about 20 minutes. The test, which will consist of questions on the texts and topics discussed during the course, will ascertain the level of knowledge gained by the students, together with the ability to communicate this knowledge in an efficacious, clear, and adequate way. The language of the exam is English.
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 explores the deep and complex connections between the biblical text, with particular refence to the Song of Songs, and the poetic output, both sacred and secular, in sixteenth-century England. After an introduction to the textual tradition and the role of the Bible in the politico-religious, cultural and literary panorama of sixteenth-century England, texts of diverse poetic genres will be taken into account. With regards to the genre of verse paraphrases of the biblical book, after an examination of the first influential work in this tradition in the British Isles, William Baldwin’s Canticles, or Balades of Salomon, Gervase Markham’s The Poem of Poems. Or, Sions Muse, will be analysed. For what concerns religious poetry, a selection of texts of different authors will be the object of analysis, including works by Elizabeth I, Henry Constable, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and Elizabeth Melville. The interaction between the biblical text and secular poetry will be explored through a selection of texts pertaining especially (though not exclusively) to the genres of love lyric and pastoral poetry, with particular attention to the poetic output of such authors as Bartholomew Griffin, Thomas Campion, Richard Barnfield, and Edmund Spenser.