ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE 2 MOD. 2

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LETTERATURE ANGLO-AMERICANE 2 MOD. 2
Course code
LT002B (AF:360654 AR:189186)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE 2
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-LIN/11
Period
1st Semester
Course year
2
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The second module of the course is part of the BA in Languages, Civilization and the Science of Language and aims at providing an introduction to the history of American literature in through textual and cultural analysis.
The course aims at stimulating student to reflect on the evolution of literary language, forms and genres and to provide them with methods for analyzing texts and contextualizing them from a cultural-historical viewpoint. This will prepare students for advanced studies in both the literary and the cultural fields.
The learning outcomes of these course entail developing:
1. Good knowledge of the history of American literature from the colonial era to the American Renaissance;
2. Ability to apply such knowledge to the textual and cultural analysis of a literary text;
3. Ability to formulate critical hypotheses and judgments;
4. Communication skills and appropriate terminology;
5. Autonomous reading of handbooks and suggested materials.
Good knowledge of written and spoken English (≥ B2)
Nineteenth-century American literature.

W. C. Bryant, selected poems
R. W. Emerson, selected essays
M. Fuller, from At Home and Abroad
H.D. Thoreau, "Walking"
N. Hawthorne, selected stories, The Scarlet Letter
H. Melville, Benito Cereno
W. Whitman, selections from Leaves of Grass

Selections from other texts available on Moodle
ORAL EXAM:
1) Knowledge of notions of literary history.
2) identification and analysis of excerpts from literary texts made to evaluate the ability of making critical judgments while analyzing and contextualizing a text.

Non-attending students will be asked to study further critical material available on moodle



Lectures and class discussion
Italian
This module (mod. 2) is part of LT002B and must be attended together with mod. 1 taught by Prof. Bordin.
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 13/09/2021