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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents The course is designed to enable students to acquire hermeneutic skills and to develop critical viewpoints.
The course is divided into 4 parts preceded by a brief introduction on critical theories.
Introduction:
Types of Literature -
Timeline -
Modulo 1: "The Elizabethan World Order,"
The origins of drama; -
Elizabethan theatre;-
Shakespeare inventor of the human;
Fate and free will;
The Great Chain of Being
The Age of Milton: context
John Milton: Passages from "Paradise Lost" (Book one)
Module 2 :
W. Shakespeare: Macbeth, (English-Italian edition)
C. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (English-Italian edition)
Module 3:
a) Nature and imagination two facets of Romantic Poetry.
Early aesthetic moves;
The nature of poetry;
The poetry of nature;
Developments of Romantic poetry.
b) Romantic fiction. The Rise of the Gothic Novel:
Science and imagination.
Module 4: Female Writings
The Age of the novel. Love and marriage: from Mary Wollstonecraft to Elizabeth Gaskell:
Mary Wollstonecraft: Wrongs of women
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
P. D. James: Death Comes to Pemberley
Extended Syllabus Introduction:
Types of Literature -
Timeline -
Modulo 1: "The Elizabethan World Order,"
The origins of drama; -
Elizabethan theatre;-
Shakespeare inventor of the human;
Fate and free will;
The Great Chain of Being
The Age of Milton: context
Paradise Lost (Book one)
Module 2 : Lettura e analisi di un’opera shakespeariana
e confronto con l’opera di Christopher Marlowe
W. Shakespeare: Macbeth, (English-Italian edition)
C. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (English-Italian edition)
Module 3 :
a) Nature and imagination two facets of Romantic Poetry.
Early aesthetic moves;
The nature of poetry;
The poetry of nature;
Developments of Romantic poetry.
b) Romantic fiction. The Rise of the Gothic Novel:
Science and imagination.
Modulo 4 : Female Writings
The Age of the novel: Love and marriage daMary Wollstonecraft a Elizabeth Gaskell:
Mary Wollstonecraft: Wrongs of women;
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice;
P. D James: Death Comes to Pemberley
TESTO CRITICO
P. Partenza, Alchimie austeniane. Donne, Fortuna e altre storie in Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2015.
RONALD CARTER AND JOHN McRAE, The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and Ireland, New York and London, Routledge.
* By the end of the course the teacher will provide photocopies.
Recommended Bibliography W. Shakespeare: Macbeth, (English-Italian edition)
C. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (English-Italian edition)
Mary Wollstonecraft: Wrongs of women
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
P. D. James: Death Comes to Pemberley
P. Partenza, Alchimie austeniane. Donne, Fortuna e altre storie in Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2015.
IMPORTANT: Photocopies will be provided by the teacher during course.
Teaching Methods Lectures act as a starting point for the comprehension of the main themes of the course, they also provide the opportunity to discuss different topics in more detail.
Lessons, seminars, discussion in class, students' presentations. Languages: English AND Italian
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
By the end of this course students will understand:
• The principal features of the content and form of the novels and stories studied.
• The relevant contexts - historical, biographical, literary, ideological - for the main works studied.
And they will have developed the following skills:
• The ability to identify relevant factors of specific content and form in each Literary period studied
• The ability to recognize features of differing contexts present in each Literary period studied
• The ability to undertake a literary analysis of a fictional text proposed.
ORAL EXAMINATION
Grades:
Excellent: Students' high capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics proposed, originality of thought and excellent knowledge of the theories and of the texts; accurate and appropriate language.
Very good level: Students' capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics proposed, originality of thought and very good knowledge of the theories and of the texts ; appropriate, accurate language.
Good level: Students' capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics proposed, knowledge of the theories and of the texts; and appropriate language.
Pass: Students' capability to enter the exiting debates on the topics proposed, knowledge of the theories and of the texts ; appropriate language.
Fail: Student's lack of knowledge of the theories employed during the course, incapability to critical reading of the novels, inappropriate and inaccurate language.
Contacts/More Information Photocopies will be provided by the teacher during course.
Erasmus students are requested to contact the teacher before enrolling in the course.