- Docente: Silvia Albertazzi
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student has a deep knowledge of the history of the literatures in English; he/she knows the works of the most important authors, is able to analyze and evaluate them following precise critical metholodogies. He/she can comment, translate and deal with the contents of the works listed in the syllabus from a linguistic, historical and philological viewpoint.
Course contents
The Hero in Eclipse in Modern and Contemporary English fiction
The aim of the course is to analyze the figure of the loser and its evolution in English fiction from the end of the XIXth. century to the present day.
Readings/Bibliography
Fiction
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
R. K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts
Christina Stead, Seven Poor Men of Sydney
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity o Juliet, Naked
Jonathan Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Criticism
Compulsory reading:
Silvia Albertazzi, Belli e perdenti. Antieroi e post-eroi nella narrativa contemporanea di lingua inglese, Roma, Armando Editore, 2012.
Paolo Bertinetti, English Literature. A Short History, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 (chapters on the XIXth, and XXth centuries, the present day, and the new literatures in English: introduction and sections on Australia or India).
Further Reading:
Dominic Head, Cambridge Introduction to Modern Fiction 1950-2000, Cambridge UP, 2002.
Daniel Bivona, Desire and Contradiction. Imperial Vision and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature, Manchester, 1990, pp. 92-109.
M. K. Naik, The Ironic Vision. A Study of R. K. Narayan, New Delhi 1983, pp. 11-17.
Jennifer Gribble, Christina Stead, Melbourne OUP, 1994 (sections on Seven Poor Men of Sydney)
Foreign students can substitute Albertazzi's book with the whole of Head's Introduction to Modern Fiction. Yet, since this course deals with authors and themes which are to be found in Albertazzi's essay, but are not dealt with in Head's work, Erasmus and Overseas students are warmly recommended to attend all the lessons.
A file with the essays by Bivona, Naik e Gribble and some articles on the most recent novels in the programme will be deposited in, at the Department library, via Cartoleria 5 and at the centro studi sulle letterature omeoglotte (study room n. 34) by the beginning of the lessons.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussion of videos and films. The students are invited to take active part in the lessons.
Assessment methods
Oral Exam.
Teaching tools
Video and Audio supports will be used. A series of films related to the texts in this syllabus will be shown and discussed during the course. The list will be published by the beginning of the Academic Year.
Office hours
See the website of Silvia Albertazzi