54705 - English Literature 3 (A-L)

Course contents

     The Archetype of the Journey and the Imagery of Italy in D.H.Lawrence's Works.

  In a survey of  the Literary context at the turn of Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century, the course aims to deal with D.H.Lawrence's Narrative and Poetry, paying attention both to the themes and motifs and to the stylistic as well as to the various strategies of writing in English connected to other writers such as: Conrad, Stevenson and Greene. The students have to know the History of the English Literature of the end on the Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century  and to read three novels, two travel books, one novella, and a selection of four poems from Birds Beasts and Flowers, plus three essays among those listed in b) and one of methodology listed in c).

Readings/Bibliography

Texts (a choise):

 

Joseph Conrad:

Novels: Heart of Darkness

Travel Books: Congo Diary

D.H.Lawrence:

Novels: The Lost Girl, Kangaroo, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Travel Books: Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia, Etruscan Places

Novellas: Sun, The Virgin and the Gypsy

Poems: Birds Beasts and Flowers

Graham Greene:

Novels:  The Quiet American, Travels with My Aunt

Travel Books: Journey Without Maps

b)

- C.Comellini, “La mappa come metafora del testo letterario: l'eredità di R.L.Stevenson, J.Conrad, R.Kipling in G. Greene e M. Ondaatje”, Il lettore di provincia, XXXII, 110/111,2001, pp.53-63.

- C.Comellini, “The Use of Myth in D.H.Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers”, Etudes Lawrenciennes, N.23, Paris, Université Paris X-Nanterre, 2000, pp.73-91.

-   C.Comellini, “Sicily in D.H.Lawrence's Imagery”, in Conservation Science in  Cultural Heritage, n.8 (Bologna, Pitagora Editrice), 2008, pp. 29 – 47.

 

- C.Comellini, “Power as an Incentive in D.H. Lawrence's Creativity”, Etudes Lawrenciennes, vol. 40, 2009, pp. 153-160 ( ISSN: 0994-5490).

 

- C.Comellini, “Romanzo e autobiografia in Lady Chatterley's Lover” in S. Cenni e N. Ceramella (eds.),  Il corpo, la fiamma e il desiderio: D. H. Lawrence, Firenze e la sfida di Lady Chatterley, Firenze, Tipografia regionale della Toscana, 2010,  pp. 207-216.

- C.Comellini, Invito alla lettura di Greene, Milano, Mursia, 1996.

C.Comellini,"Introduction" to G.Greene The Tenth Man, Na, Loffredo,2003.  

c) C.Comellini, D.H.Lawrence, A Study on Mutual and Cross References and Interferences, Bologna, Clueb, Update Edition, December 2009 (1995), pp.155.

- C.Comellini, Invito alla lettura di Greene, Milano, Mursia, 1996.

 

The title of the Recommended History of English Literature eill be comunicated  during the lessons.

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