LETTERATURA INGLESE (Corso Trienn.)
MODERN
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
A.A. 2011-2012
CdL L-11/L-12 (Interclasse) II
The official programme for this course can be accessed by clicking
here. The course is divided into two
modules, dedicated respectively to Shakespeare
and to a number of representative modern texts. While the Shakespeare
plays and the poetry will be read and analyzed during lessons, students
are expected to read the longer prose works
(many of which are readily available on the Internet) on their own.
Lessons will be conducted in English, as will the exam. Students who
find themselves in difficulty are welcome to ask for further
clarification during office hours.
Course readings and other didactic
material can be downloaded from the StudyNet
website. To access this material you will have to register as
students enrolled in this course. Since your email addresses are also
registered with the system, this will also give me the means of
communicating with you individually or collectively should the
necessity arise.
Texts:
Shakespeare, Romeo and
Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
James Joyce, “The Dead”
Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”
Corpus di letture distribuite durante il corso, comprendente opere di
Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rupert Brooke,
John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, W. B. Yeats, e T. S. Eliot
Recommended Critical Material:
Handouts available at StudyNet.
Lucking, David. 1997. Plays Upon the
Word: Shakespeare's Drama of Language. Lecce: Milella.
Lucking, David. 2007. The
Shakespearean Name: Essays on "Romeo and Juliet", "The Tempest", and
Other Plays. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New
York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang.
Links:
Online versions of most, if
not all, of the prose works listed in the course programme can be found
at the following site. You may use any editions of these texts you
wish, whether in print or electronic format, although for purely
practical reasons it is recommended that you obtain hardcopy versions
at least for use during lessons:
The
Literature Network