- Docente: Lilla Maria Crisafulli
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire an extensive knoweldge and understanding of
the history of modern English literature, with special attention to
the relationship between literary texts and the historical,
cultural and linguistic context. They will also develop critical
and analytical skills in the specific field of study. Students will
be able to analyse and interpret a range of different literary
texts using various methodological practicies. They will be asked
to produce personal critical remarks and deal with complex literary
critical analysis.
Course contents
Title of the course: Romantic Theatre and Drama
The course will examine the various genres of Romantic
theatre,through the reading and analysis of both plays written for
the stage and of plays just meant for the closet. After an
introduction on the Romantic critical and theoretical debate on
legitimate and illegitimate theatre, different positions and
contributions of such authors as Inchlbald, Coleridge, Baillie,
Byron, Shelley and Mitford will be analysed. Passages from several
plays will be discussed in relation to the different genres they
belong to, with particular attention to the different forms of
discourse and languages.
Readings/Bibliography
Primary Texts:
E. Inchbald “Lovers' Vows”
S. T. Coleridge “Remorse”
P. B. Shelley “The Cenci”
Lord Byron “The Tow Foscari”
J. Baillie “The Family Legend”
Critical reading:
"Family Legend” (Leggenda di Famiglia) di Joanna Baillie, a cura di Lilla Maria Crisafulli e Liana Battelli, BUP, Bologna, 2007.
La Questione Romantica, n. 14, "Il dramma storico delle donne tra Rivoluzione e Restaurazione", Liguori, Napoli 2005.
Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 (Oxford World's Classics) – (Scaffale Crisafulli, Biblioteca di Lingue)The Languages of Performance in British Romanticism, ed. by Lilla Maria Crisafulli e Cecilia Pietropoli, Lang, 2008 (Biblioteca di Lingue)
L. M. Crisafulli and K. Elam (a cura di), Manuale di
Letteratura e Cultura Inglese, Bononia University Press,
2009
Teaching methods
The course will be organized on seminar base, encouraging students
to participate in class discussion. Presentaton and discussion of
writtien essays.
Assessment methods
Students will be asked to present papers in class and will be also
assessed on the basis of their performance.
Teaching tools
Audio-visual equipment; Power-Point Projection; texts, photocopies
and other documents will be provided during the course.
Office hours
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