Obiettivi Formativi

Il programma tratterà due secoli di letteratura inglese (1800 e 1900) partendo da Jane Austen fino alla fine del XX secolo. Si faranno inoltre brevi excursus nell’età contemporanea con lo studio di alcuni degli autori più importanti

Learning Goals

The course will be focused on 1800 and 1900 English Literature starting from Jane Austen to the end of the 20th century. It will also cover some of the most relevant contemporary authors.

Metodi didattici

Alcuni dei testi più significativi di tale periodo verranno approfonditi in classe. Le lezioni verteranno sull’evolversi dei generi e dei motivi letterari storicamente e culturalmente contestualizzati.

Teaching Methods

Some of the most relevant texts of ‘800 and ‘900 literature will be studied during classes. The evolution of literary motifs and genres will be analyzed from a historical, cultural and social point of view.

Prerequisiti

Per poter sostenere l’esame di Letteratura Inglese II gli studenti dovranno aver superato l’esame di Letteratura Inglese I e l’esame di Lingua Inglese II

Prerequisites

Students must have already passed Letteratura Inglese I and Lingua Inglese II

Verifiche dell'apprendimento

Esame orale. I candidati dovranno dimostrare di avere appreso l’evolversi dei generi letterari e saranno tenuti a discutere in inglese un autore e/o argomento a loro scelta

Assessment

Oral exam. Students must show they understood the evolution of literary genres historically and socially contextualized. They should choose an author/subject to discuss in English

Programma del Corso

Durante le lezioni verranno approfondite e studiate le seguenti opere: POESIA William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper The Tyger London William Wordsworth She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner George Gordon Byron So We’ll Go No More A-Roving Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias John Keats When I Have Fears On the Grasshopper and Crickets Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam Crossing the Bar Robert Browning My Last Duchess Matthew Arnold Dover Beach Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel Christina Rossetti Song Remember Echo A Birthday William Butler Yeats In Memory of Major Robert Gregory Easter 1916 The Second Coming T.S. Eliot The Waste Land Dylan Thomas A Refusal To Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London ROMANZI Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim James Joyce, Dubliners D.H. Lawrence, The Trespasser Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway J.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient-Express G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book Bram Stocker, Dracula James Hilton, Random Harvest William Golding, Lord of the Flies John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chicken Nick Hornby High Fidelity George Orwell, Animal Farm Graham Greene The Third Man Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Alan Bennett, The Clothes they stood up in Alan Bennett, The Lady in the Van TEATRO Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Sean O’Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons – The Tiger and the Horse Terence Rattigan, French Without Tears Peter Shaffer, Amadeus Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Course Syllabus

The following texts and authors will be studied during classes: William Blake The Chimney Sweeper The Tyger London William Wordsworth She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner George Gordon Byron So We’ll Go No More A-Roving Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias John Keats When I Have Fears On the Grasshopper and Crickets Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam Crossing the Bar Robert Browning My Last Duchess Matthew Arnold Dover Beach Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel Christina Rossetti Song Remember Echo A Birthday William Butler Yeats In Memory of Major Robert Gregory Easter 1916 The Second Coming T.S. Eliot The Waste Land Dylan Thomas A Refusal To Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim James Joyce, Dubliners D.H. Lawrence, The Trespasser Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway J.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient-Express G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book Bram Stocker, Dracula James Hilton, Random Harvest William Golding, Lord of the Flies John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chicken Nick Hornby High Fidelity George Orwell, Animal Farm Graham Greene The Third Man Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Alan Bennett, The Clothes they stood up in Alan Bennett, The Lady in the Van, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Sean O’Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons – The Tiger and the Horse Terence Rattigan, French Without Tears Peter Shaffer, Amadeus Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead