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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
English Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Students are required to have a knowledge of the English language at a B2 level, according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), in order to understand the concepts exposed during the course.
Objectives
Contents The course consists of one module:
"Exploring Language and Literature: Approaches to Textual Analysis" (6CFU)
The purpose of the course will be to provide students with the appropriate tools for the analysis of literary texts, both narrative and poetry. Starting from different theoretical considerations and perspectives, the course will aim at deepening the intratextual elements that determine the production of meaning. Particular importance will be given to the analysis of the following aspects: characterization, setting, time, focalization, rhetorical techniques, phonological and structural features, lexis.
Recommended Bibliography - Ronald Carter and Angela Goddard, How to Analyse Texts, Routledge, 2016.
- Helen Stephenson, Lewis Lansford, Paul Dummett, Keynote. Upper Intermediate, National Geographic Learning.
- Diane Hall and Mark Foley, My Grammar Lab, Intermediate B1-B2, Advanced C1-C2, Pearson, Longman, 2012.
- Oxford Collocations Dictionary, Oxford University Press.
Further material related to the textual analysis will be provided during the course.
Teaching Methods The course includes the following activities:
1) lectures held by the professor;
2) tutorials and other teaching activities (in classroom, in laboratories, at distance) organized by the linguistic experts of the CLA.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final exam consists of a written test and of an oral one, both assessed in thirtieths. The written test is divided in two parts:
the first pat focuses on a multi-level analysis of a literary text, of its narrative techniques, style, contents, lexicon, linguistic register, symbolic and rhetorical level; the second part consists of a grammatical and vocabulary section (rephrase, word-building, lexical items, phrasal verbs, sentence translation) at a B2+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Contacts/More Information Further bibliographical material will be provided during the course. Non-attending students are invited to contact the professor before the written exam.