Letteratura e cultura inglese I/M

• CFU 6, 9, 9(m)
• Prerequisiti

  excellent knowledge of the English language

• Obiettivi formativi

  Demonstrate the ability to reflect insightfully on the authors and texts in the syllabus, to read and discuss literature in terms of aesthetic and formal issues (plot, character, narrator, imagery etc.), to understand and use different critical and historical approaches to Victorian popular culture; to communicate your reflections, analyses, and arguments effectively in speaking and writing

• Programma del corso

  Victorian Popular Culture
  
  The explosion of popular literature in the middle decades of the nineteenth century inspired many a Victorian commentator to interrogate the concept of the popular. E.S. Dallas, Margaret Oliphant, and Wilkie Collins, among others, offered salient critical commentary on the bustling publishing market, the proliferation of cheap literature, the emergence of an unknown public, and the difficulty of classifying the infinite variety of printed materials. Starting off with an overview of Victorian responses to the diffusion of cheap literature and the periodical press, this course explores three specific areas of interest: journalism, sensationalism, and realism. Students will learn to think critically and flexibly about different types of texts – essays, journalistic articles, novels, and short stories – and their relations to the social and cultural world of mid-Victorian England.
  

• Testi (A)dottati, (C)onsigliati
  • 1.  (A) Dickens, Charles The Uncommercial Traveller Qualsiasi 1960 » Pagine/Capitoli: una selezione di tre capitoli
  • 2.  (A) Hollingshead, John Under Bow Bells Qualsiasi 1859 » Pagine/Capitoli: una selezione di alcuni capitoli
  • 3.  (A) Evans Morier David Speculative Notes and Notes on Speculation Qualsiasi 1864 » Pagine/Capitoli: una selezione di alcuni capitoli
  • 4.  (A) Riddell, Charlotte Too Much Alone Qualsiasi 1860
  • 5.  (A) Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Aurora Floyd (1863) Oup 2000
  • 6.  (A) Trollope Anthony The Prime Minister (1876) Oup 1999
• Altre informazioni / materiali aggiuntivi

  I file PDF dei testi di Dickens, Riddell, Hollingshead e Evans verranno messi a disposizione degli studenti prima dell'inizio delle lezioni. La bibliografia critica verrà comunicata nel corso delle lezioni.

• Metodi didattici
  • lezione frontale
• Modalità di valutazione
  • orale
• 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

• ziegler.pdf 322.8 kB
• aurora floyd and sensation.pdf 3.1 MB
• bearing her secret.pdf 1.2 MB
• bigamy.pdf 2.6 MB
• Brantlinger on sensation.pdf 2.4 MB
• THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.doc 188.5 kB
• Popular Culture
  • Collins The Unknown Public.doc 59.0 kB
  • byways of literature Oliphant.pdf 9.4 MB
  • cheap lit 1.pdf 3.7 MB
  • books and their uses.pdf 2.0 MB
  • Popular literature 1.pdf 10.0 MB
  • popular literature.pdf 9.2 MB
  • french novels.pdf 3.3 MB
  • novel reading.pdf 3.0 MB
  • Speculative-notes-and-notes-on-speculat.pdf 23.6 MB
• underbowbellscit00holluoft.pdf 18.1 MB
• Speculative-notes-and-notes-on-speculat.pdf 23.6 MB
• toomuchalonenove00riddrich.pdf 28.3 MB