Module A. Core Course (6 ECTS)
English Literature from
Chaucer to the Restoration:
- Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History
of English Literature, Oxford UP, London, 3rd ed. 2004 (da Chaucer a
Congreve, pp. 48-272, (also available in the Italian edition: Storia della letteratura inglese, Mondadori, Milano, 2001,
1° vol.).
- Anthology:
Correct English pronunciation,
translation, and in-depth analysis of the rhetorics, stylistics, and formal
features of the 16 chosen texts/excerpts will be required at the exam:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The General Prologue” (vv.
1-42)
- Thomas Wyatt, “I Find no Peace and All My War is
Done”
- Queen Elizabeth I, “Speech to the Troops at
Tilbury” + John Knox’s The First Blast
Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (excerpt) and Juan Luis
Vives’ The Instruction of a Christen Woman
(excerpt)
- Edmund Spenser, The
Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I: “A Gentle Knight was pricking
on the plaine” (vv. 1-45)
- Philip Sidney, Astrophel
and Stella,
Sonnet I, “Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show”
- Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to
Amphilanthus, Sonnet I, “When night’s blacke Mantle could most
darknesse proue
- Christopher Marlowe, The
Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus, “Faustus’ last hour and
damnation”: scene
xiii (vv. 57-115)
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Oberon
speaks to Robin”, Act II, scene i (vv. 161-180); “The Fairies’ love
potion”, Act II, scene ii (vv. 1-41)
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and
Juliet: “The
Balcony scene”, Act II, scene ii (vv. 1-55)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet: “To be or not to be”: Act
III, scene i (vv. 64-98)
- John Donne, Songs and Sonnets, “A Lecture Upon the Shadow”
- Katherine Philips, Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda,
“Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia”
- Margaret Cavendish, The
Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, “The Epilogue to the Reader”
- Aphra Behn, The
Dutch Lover, “Epistle to the Reader” (excerpt)
- John Milton, Paradise
Lost, Book I, “The Heroic Defeat” (vv. 242-70)
- John Dryden, Mac
Flecknoe (vv. 1-30)
For the historical and cultural
contexts and notes to the texts, see:
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, New York and London: W.W. Norton,
vol. I;
- An Open Companion to Early British
Literature, ed. A. Villarreal, Pressbooks, 2019 - open access:
https://earlybritishlit.pressbooks.com
I testi di Shakespeare sono reperibili sul sito Folger
Shakespeare Library - open
access:
https://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-works
- Methodology:
- “Short
Guide to English prosody and rhetorics”
(handout by the teacher, available through Studium)
Module B. In-Depth Study (3 ECTS)
Aphra Behn, the incomparable
Astrea. Women and writing in the seventeenth century
Primary
text :
- Sackville-West, V. Aphra Behn. L’incomparabile Astrea, a cura di S. Arcara,
Milano, Vanda Edizioni 2021 (con testo inglese) (pp. 210)
Critical
essays :
- Hobby, E., ‘Introduction’, in Virtue of Necessity. English Women’s Writing 1649-88,
London, Virago 1988, pp. 1-13.
- Woolf, V., Una
stanza tutta per sé / A Room of One’s Own, a cura di M.A. Saracino,
Torino, Einaudi, 1995: Cap. 3, pp. 84-100 e Cap. 4, pp. 118-135 (testo
inglese a fronte).
Please remember that in compliance with art. 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
Books
listed in the programs that cannot be consulted in the Library will be
available through Studium.