67245 - LETTERATURA INGLESE / LETTERATURA DEI PAESI DI LINGUA INGLESE 2 (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Lo studente possiede conoscenze approfondite sulla storia della letteratura inglese moderna e sullo sviluppo delle letterature extraeuropee in lingua inglese, con particolare attenzione al rapporto tra i testi letterari e il contesto storico, artistico e linguistico. Possiede elevate capacità di comprensione e di analisi critica delle specificità culturali delle aree geografiche studiate, nonché delle dinamiche politiche e dei condizionamenti ideologici tra i diversi Paesi, con particolare attenzione ai rapporti tra l'Europa e le sue ex-colonie. Conosce e sa utilizzare le metodologie pratiche per l’analisi e l'interpretazione del testo letterario. E' in grado di elaborare analisi complesse e di formulare riflessioni autonome su tematiche di ricerca specifiche.

Contenuti

“Those we (don't) speak of”: the representation of violence,  narratives of the self and/as other; (meta)communication in dystopian and postcolonial fiction within a gender and postcolonial perspective.

The course will analyse strategies of representations of fear, love and deception, isolation and sense of belonging in texts (fiction and visual) in English. The study of the relationship between characters and their positions within the community will be carried out through gender and postcolonial methodologies. The texts chosen expose ambiguity and indeterminacy as strategies to articulate fear, love,(self) deception, violence and possible reconciliation, shame and ‘redemption' as elements of the self and as key elements represented and deconstructed in the imagined and post-traumatic communities analysed.

Lessons will be introduced by the study of the methodologies and theories of gender and women's studies and postcolonial critique. Definition of ambiguous dystopia/utopia. Trauma and memory studies.

Testi/Bibliografia

Testi/Bibliografia

Primary sources:

M. Faber, Under the Skin, 2000 (translation in Italian Sotto la pelle, Einaudi, 2004)

K. Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, 2005 (translation in Italian Non lasciarmi, Einaudi, 2006)

J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, 1999, (translation in Italian Vergogna, Einaudi, 2000)

A. Carter, The Passion of New Eve, 1977 (Translation in Italian La passione della nuova Eva, Feltrinelli, 1984)

Movies:

The Village, U.S.A, Director M. Night Shyamalan, 2004

Under the Skin, Director Director Jonathan Glazer, Great Britain, 2013

Never Let Me Go, Director Mark Romanek, U.S and Great Britain, 2010

Bibliography of Secondary texts (essays, articles, volumes). Lesson will make reference to the following critical sources:

(Students will be requested to choose texts/essays/articles from the following list and the ones proposed during the course in accordance with the lecturer).

Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan (ed.) Dark Horizons. Science Fiction and The Dystopian Imagination. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. (selected chapters) reperibile in biblioteca

Bauman, Zygmunt, Seeking Safety in an Insecure World, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. (selected chapters) parti reperibili nel reader e in biblioteca

Braidotti, Rosi “Difference, Diversity, and Nomadic Subjectivity” documento Internet, http://women.ped.kun.nl , 2000.

Butler, Judith, 1993, Bodies that Matter. On the Discoursive Limits of “Sex”. New York and London: Routledge, 1996, Corpi che Contano. I limiti discorsivi del “sesso” Trad. S. Capelli. Milano: Feltrinelli. (selected chapters and Introduction) reperibile in biblioteca

Cooper, Pamela, “Metamorphosis and Sexuality: Reading the Strange Passions of Disgrace” in http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ral/summary/v036/36.4cooper.html

Ferreccio, Giuliana e Carmen Concilio (a cura di) J. M Coetzee, percorsi di lettura tra storia e narrazione, Iesa: Gorée, 2009

Fortunati, Vita, Gilberta Golinelli, Rita Monticelli (a cura di) Studi di genere e memoria culturale. Women and Cultural Memory. Bologna: Clueb, 2004. (selected chapters) reperibile in biblioteca

Foucault, Michel, Utopie eterotopie ( Les Héterotopies Les corps utopique) a cura di A. Moscati. Napoli: Cronopio, 2006 reperibile online e nel reader

Gilroy, Paul, "Urban Social Movements, 'Race' and Community" in P. Williams and L. Chrisman, eds, Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory. A Reader, New York: Columbia UP, 1994, pp. 404-420 reperibile nel reader

Graham, Lucy Valerie “Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace” available online (JSTOR) and in the Reader

Gymnich, Marion (ed.), Who's Afraid of…? Facets of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Film (Representations and Reflections), V&R Unipress Gmbh, Bonn University Press, 2012. pp. 294. (chapters on Never let Me Go, and Introduction)

Gymnich, Marion, Segão Costa, Alexandre, “Of Humans, Pigs, Fish, and Apes: The Literary Motif of Human-Animal Metamorphosis and its Multiple Functions in Contemporary Fiction” in http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lesprit_createur/v046/46.2gymnich.html (on Faber)

Herron, Tom “The Dog Man: Becoming Animal in Coetzee's Disgrace”, available online (JSTOR)

Lefanu, Sarah, In the Chinks of the World Machine. Feminism and Science Fiction. London: The Women's Press, 1988

Lamb, Jonathan “Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales” available online (JSTOR) and in the Reader

McDonald, Keith “Days of Past Futures: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go As ‘Speculative Memoir'”, in http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v030/30.1mcdonald.html

Mediazioni online, Special issue on The Village (reperibile online) www.mediazionionline.it

Monticelli Rita, 2006, “‘Nei "giardini delle nostre madri': memorie e riscritture del corpo”. Postfazione. In Gatti come angeli. L'eros nella poesia femminile di lingua inglese, a cura di Loredana Magazzeni e Andrea Sirotti. Milano: Medusa, pp. 209 - 232. reperibile in biblioteca

Monticelli, Rita, 1997, sezione "Soggetti corporei", in Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna: Clueb, pp. 205-255 (selected essays) reperibile in biblioteca

Monticelli, Rita, « Utopie, Utopisme, Féminisme » in Histoire transnationale des utopies littéraires et de l'utopisme Coordonné par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson. Paris, Honoré Champion, France, 2008, (pp. 1127 - 1143). Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée. reperibile in biblioteca e nel reader

Rivisiting Feminism: Cultural trajectories ed. Kalpana Das and Fréderique Apffel Marglin. iim, InterCulture, Intercultural Institute of Montreal, n. 150. INTERCULTURE. vol. 150. anno 2, n. 6. Edizione italiana della rivista canadese dell'Intercultural Institute of Montreal. (selected essays, GEMMA students only), reperibile in biblioteca

Salgueiro Seabra Ferreira, Maria Aline, "Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve: A Comparative Reading". Online document

Sargent, Lyman Tower, The Problem of the « Flawed Utopia »: a Note on the Costs of Eutopia » in Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan (ed.) Dark Horizon. Science Fiction and The Dystopian Imagination . London and New York: Routledge, 2003 reperibile nel reader

Sargisson, Lucy, "The Curious Relationship Between Politics and Utopia" in Moylan, Tom and Raffaella Baccolini, (eds) in Moylan, Tom and Raffaella Baccolini, (eds) Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value Of Social Dreaming, Berne and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007 reperibile nel reader

Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”, in Diacritics. A Review of Contemporary Criticism 17 (2), 1987, pp. 65-81. “Figli/e di madre, del padre forse: una grammatica Americana” in Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie . A cura di Raffaella Baccolini; M. Giulia Fabi, Vita Fortunati, Rita Monticelli. Bologna: CLUEB, 1997, pp. 255-279, trad. Lucia Gunella e Rita Monticelli. reperibile in biblioteca e nel reader

Spivak, Gayatri C., 1981, “French Feminism in an International Frame”, in Yale French Studies, No. 62, Feminist Readings: French Texts/American Contexts. reperibile nel reader

Spivak, Gayatri C., 1985, “Imperialism and Sexual Difference”, in Oxford Literary Review 8, pp. 224-240 reperibile nel reader e online

BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS: Please do check this web page for further notice and information.

Gli studenti e le studentesse di Letteratura Inglese/Letteratura dei Paesi di lingua inglese 2 LM dovranno analizzare 3 testi primari (da scegliersi tra quelli in elenco) e saggi/ capitoli di volumi/articoli da scegliere tra le  fonti critiche in elenco per un numero di 200/220 pagine. E' inoltre richiesta l'analisi di uno dei film proposti.

Students of the course Letteratura Inglese/Letteratura dei paesi di lingua inglese 2 LM are requested to analyse 3 primary texts (to be chosen amongst the volumes in the Reading list of the primary sources) and articles/essays/chapters (about 200/220 pages) from the Reading list of the Secondary sources; the analysis of one of the movies proposed.

Le studentesse e gli studenti  Gemma del I Anno (Feminist Theory between Difference and Diversity) dovranno analizzare 3 testi primari (da scegliersi tra quelli in elenco) e saggi/ capitoli di volumi/articoli da scegliere tra le  fonti critiche in elenco per un numero di 250 pagine. E' inoltre richiesto lo studio di uno dei film proposti. Le studentesse e gli studenti e del primo anno Gemma possono anche preparare un programma alternativo, in accordo con la docente.

Gemma students (First Year) are requested to analyse 3 primary texts (to be chosen amongst the  volumes in the Reading list of the primary sources) and articles/essays/chapters (about 250 pages) from the Reading list of the Secondary sources; the analysis of one of the movies proposed. Students can also choose an alternative program in accordance with the lecturer.

Gemma students (Second Year) are requested to analyse 2 primary texts (to be chosen amongst the volumes in the Reading list of the primary sources) and articles/essays/chapters (about 150 pages) from the Reading list of the Secondary sources; the analysis of one of the movies proposed.

All students (divided in groups) are requested to present in class one text (to be chosen in accordance with the lecturer) within diverse critical perspectives, in a date to be confirmed.

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Metodi didattici

Metodi didattici

Materiali bibliografici e indicazioni di strumenti critici verranno forniti anche nel corso delle lezioni. Sono previste lezioni frontali e seminariali, con la partecipazione attiva degli studenti. Per questa ragione la lista dei testi critici potrebbe variare durante lo svolgimento del corso. E' necessaria inoltre la conoscenza della lingua inglese e di quella italiana.

Eventuali studenti non frequentanti sono invitati a contattare la docente, presentandosi personalmente nell'orario di ricevimento, o inviandole una mail, entro e non oltre la fine del corso.

Gli studenti sono pregati di consultare il programma all'inizio e durante il corso, per eventuali cambiamenti e per informazioni ulteriori sulla reading list.

Non sono ammessi al corso studenti delle lauree triennali. Gli eventuali studenti Erasmus sono pregati di contattare la docente via email prima di iscriversi al corso.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Active participation in class discussions: 25%

Students' presentation: 25% (students will be requested to discuss in groups one selected text and present their works in the last part of the course).

Final oral exams: 50%

The final oral exam will test the student's critical capability, his/her knowledge of the methodologies employed, her/his ability to combine theories with the analyses of the texts chosen. The close reading of the primary texts aims at showing the student's critical ability, their knowledge not only of the texts but also of their context of creation together with the cultural politics that inform them. Students are requested to use an appropriate language, to be able to articulate their thought in English (high level)and to have an accurate knowledge of the bibliography chosen for the exam. ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUESTED TO KNOW THE PRIMARY TEXTS (NOVELS AND MOVIES CHOSEN) IN GREAT DETAILS.

Grades:

Excellent: Students' high capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics chosen, originality of thought and excellent knowledge of the theories and of the novels chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender and postcolonial perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, accurate and appropriate language.

Very good level:  Students' capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics chosen, originality of thought and very good knowledge of the theories and of the novels chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender and postcolonial perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, and appropriate, accurate language.

Good level: Students' capability to elaborate on the exiting debates on the topics chosen, knowledge of the theories and of the novels chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender and postcolonial perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, and appropriate language.

Pass: Students' capability to enter the exiting debates on the topics chosen, knowledge of the theories and of the novels chosen for the exam, their ability to read them within a gender and postcolonial perspective, using also the theories employed during the course and showing comprehension of the bibliography chosen, and appropriate language.

Fail: Student's lack of knowledge of the theories employed during the course, incapability to critical reading of the novels, inappropriate and inaccurate language.

 

 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Texts: literary and visual; videos, power point, movies.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Rita Monticelli