Lingua e traduzione inglese (ulteriore lingua a scelta) - cup spinetoli

• CFU 5
• Prerequisiti

  Conoscenza elementare delle basi grammaticali, fonetiche e sintattiche della lingua inglese; adeguata capacità di comprensione (all’ascolto e alla lettura) dei film e della prosa inglese moderna (English Language Level: A2-B1).

• Obiettivi formativi

  Il corso si propone di stimolare una riflessione critica sulla letteratura fantastica per l’infanzia per determinare se i testi per bambine/i sono innocui o perniciosi.

• Programma del corso

  The course is structured into three major parts: Introduction to Twentieth Century Fantastic Literature and Cinema, English Grammar and Phonetics.
  - Language Test (auto-valutativo).
  - Introduction to Twentieth Century Fantastic Literature and Cinema: from Victorian fairy tales to post-modern short stories.
  - A case study: Mary Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution.
  - Films:
  - Visione del film: Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves (1984), film script by A. Carter. Changing women’s roles in fairy tales.
  - Visione del film: Yentl (1983), adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy. Changing women’s role in Education.
  - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter: parody and transformation of classic fairy tales.
  - Listening to a lecture and note taking. Learning strategies.
  - Focus on one story: Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”.
  - Compare and contrast “Little Red Riding Hood” with “The Company of Wolves” or compare and contrast Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” with “The Bloody Chamber”.
  - Women’s role in fairy tales and attempts at changing our collective imaginary.
  - Fantasy literature versus Fantastic literature.
  - Narrative strategies of defamiliarization.
  - The culture industry: Pretty Woman. A remake of Cinderella’s story. Compare and contrast with Neil Jordan’s film version: The Company of Wolves (film script by A. Carter).
  - Grammar in con-text
  - “The Company of Wolves” or “The Bloody Chamber”: Identifying the use of tenses.
  - Tenses: present perfect continuous, simple passive, past perfect.
  - Conditional tenses: if-clauses (second and third type).
  - Identifying pronouns and relative pronouns.
  - Identifying the use of Reported speech.
  - Identifying the use of Relative clauses.
  - Prova intermedia.
  - Translation of texts.
  - Identifying the use of linking expressions.
  - Modal verbs (possibility/uncertainty, advice/suggestion).
  - Textual analysis of selected passages.
  - Metaphors, Alliteration and Assonance.
  - Describing characters.
  - Describing a literary style.
  - Introduction to Phonetics: a pronunciation course to recognise and produce English sound. Sounds, stress and intonation are important for successful communication in English. A systematic practice of English pronunciation, stress and intonation through a wide variety of exercises and activities. Practising the skills needed to communicate in real life. Listening to practice material on cassettes designed for use in class.
  - Phonetics: Section: A and B. Vocabulary. Vowels: [i], [i:], etc.
  - Three different ways of pronouncing past tense: ‘ed’.
  - Prova finale.
  

• Testi (A)dottati, (C)onsigliati
  • 1.  (A) Mary Wollstonecraft Storie originali di vita vera Aras edizioni 2009 » Pagine/Capitoli: Capp. da 1 a 3
  • 2.  (A) Angela Carter “The Company of Wolves” and “The Bloody Chamber” in The Bloody Camber and Other Stories Vintage 1998 » Pagine/Capitoli: Entrambi i racconti
  • 3.  (C) Gloria ALPINI Translating Social Action Texts Aras edizioni 2009 » Pagine/Capitoli: Capp. da 1 a 4
  • 4.  (A) Gloria ALPINI The Female Fantastic Aras edizioni 2009 » Pagine/Capitoli: Capp. 1, 2 e Concluding Remarks
  • 5.  (A) Gloria ALPINI Re-writing European Folk and Fairy Tales: Transformations of Our Collective Imaginary by Angela Carter and Paola Capriolo Eum 2004 » Pagine/Capitoli: Tutto (Dispense disponibili in Facoltà e on-line)
• Metodi didattici
  • lezione frontale esercitazioni
• Modalità di valutazione
  • scritto orale verifica intermedia Verifica intermedia scritta sui contenuti linguistici (50%) e verifica finale orale, interamente in lingua inglese, sui contenuti letterari (50%).
• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che possono essere utilizzate per l'attività didattica

  Inglese

• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che si intende utilizzare per la valutazione

  Inglese

MATERIALI DIDATTICI