ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: CONCETTA LETIZIA GIULIA MAZZULLOExpected Learning Outcomes
- Know the authors and works dealt with in English and the cultural context in which they were created
- Critically analyse the texts and bibliography referred to
- apply knowledge and acquired tools to read and interpret texts and examined cultural phenomena -
present in a clear and consistent way the concepts and info related to the discipline.
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Course Structure
-Insights-interactive lectures - meeting with the author on specific themes of the course
Required Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of the History of English Literature
Attendance of Lessons
Textbook Information
1 -English Romanticism: Nature, Gothic and Science
S.T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1798)
Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal(publ. 1933)
William Wordsworth, “The Preface” to The Lyrical Ballads(1801)
William Wordsworth, Daffodils (1804),
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein(1818)
2 - End of the XIX Century: Women Writing
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights(1847)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda(1876)
3 -From Modernism to the Contemporary Age
a) Time and Duration: stream of consciousness
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
James Joyce, Eveline in Dubliners (1914)
V. Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
V. Woolf, Moments of Being (publ. 1972)
b)Utopia vs Dystopia
George Orwell, 1984
J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’(2003)
c)The postcolonial Narrative: gender and identity
Jean Rhys, Wild Sargasso Sea(1966)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Students will read J. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, London, Penguin, 2016 (whole text) e NushratAzam, “Madwoman in the Post-Colonial Era: A Study of the Female Voice in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea”, International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, IJALEL 6 (7), 2017, pp. 236-242.
Other Materials and the texts examined this year, textbooks, PPT, videos, and videoclips will be available in Studium.
MODULO B –THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IRISH (2 CFU)
Oscar Wilde,The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
J.M.Synge,The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
J.M.Synge,AranI slands(1906)
James Connolly,Easter Rising–Proclamation (1916)
P.V.Glob,The Bog People (1975)
Seamus Heaney, Punishment (1975)
Seamus Heaney, Station Island (VIII; XIIsequence)(1989)
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin,For James Connolly (2016)
EiléanNíChuilleanáin,She Was at the Haymaking (2016)
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Analyze the text where Mr. Lockwood gets into Wuthering Heights, and his encounter with Cathy's ghost.
What are the characteristics that determined an idealized approach to the West of Ireland in the Irish Revival. Refer to J. M. Synge and to his work.Analyze the poem by Seamus Heaney, 'Punishment' focusing on why the author defined himself 'artful voyeur' and participates in the 'tribal, intimate revenge'