ENGLISH LITERATURE II

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0023

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PARTENZA Paola

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

152

Prerequisites:

Good knowledge of English Literature from the Origins to the early nineteenth century

Objectives

• Enhance understanding and enjoyment of literary texts.
• Distinguish between opinions and analysis.
• Have a good knowledge of the broad chronological, thematic, and stylistic categories of English Literature.

Contents

The course is designed to enable students to acquire hermeneutic skills and to develop critical viewpoints.

It is divided into three parts:
Section 1: The Victorian Age. Themes and Problems.
Tennyson's poetry and his philosophical themes.
Elizabeth Barret Browning and her sociological view
James Antony Froude and his sense of guilt.
Christina Rossetti and abjection.

Section 2: "The 20th Century: The Age of Extremes"
Ideas that shook the world
New literary Techniques
Main themes of Modernism
The Impact of the War I

Section 3: "Postmodernism and theoretical approaches to Women Writings".
Passages from texts will be indicated during the course.

Extended Syllabus

TESTI PRIMARI
The Literary Contest
RONALD CARTER AND JOHN McRAE, The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and Ireland, New York and London, Routledge.
Bibliography will be provided by the teacher during the course.

Section 1:
A. Tennyson: "In Memoriam", "Ulysses", "Tithonus", Break, Break, Break;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The cry of the children";
James Antony Froude: The Nemesis of Faith;
Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market;
For Tennyson's In Memoriam, and Froude's The Nemesis of Faith, all infromation will be provided by the teacher during the course.

Section 2:
Works to read and analyse are:
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Elizabeth Von Arnim: Christine;
Bram Stoker: Dracula;

Section 3:
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go;

Important: Further information and bibliography will be provided by the teacher during the course.

Recommended Bibliography

Section 2:
Works to read and analyse are:
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (edizione in inglese)
Elizabeth Von Arnim: Christine;
Bram Stoker: Dracula;

Section 3:
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go;

Important: Further information and bibliography will be provided by the teacher during the course.

Teaching Methods

Lectures act as a starting point for the comprehension of the course's main themes; 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, SUFFICIENT: 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

The teacher will provide further information during the course.

Erasmus students are requested to contact the teacher before enrolling in the course.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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