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Letteratura inglese III ( 2012-13)

Letteratura inglese III ( 2012-13). M. Calbi. Timetable. Mondays 14.30-16.30 (Room 12) Tuesdays 12.30-14.30 (Room 8) Thursday 10.30-12.30 (Room 11) (from March 11 th ) (42 hours= 6 credits)

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Letteratura inglese III ( 2012-13)

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  1. Letteraturainglese III (2012-13) M. Calbi

  2. Timetable • Mondays 14.30-16.30 (Room 12) • Tuesdays 12.30-14.30 (Room 8)Thursday 10.30-12.30 (Room 11) (from March 11th) • (42 hours= 6 credits) • N.B. Don’t forget that 6 credits include attendance, work at home= readings for each class; assessment

  3. Office hours (M.Calbi) • Mondays 10.30-12.30 • Tuesdays 9.30-10.30

  4. Objectives • Knowledge of 16th- and 17th century English literature and culture • How to analyse the most significant texts (?) of the period

  5. Content / themes • Study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age, and Shakespeare’s theatre in particular. • Humanism and Renaissance; self-fashioning; the sonnet tradition, the cult of Elizabeth, Shakespeare’s sonnets • Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre; race and gender in the theatre; representation of the body; Puritanism and “new philosophy”

  6. Language of tuition • English (summaries in Italian)

  7. Assessment / Methods • See students’ handbook (Guidadellostudente) • Il profitto dello studente è valutato tramite esame orale alla fine del corso. L'esame si svolge sia in inglese che in italiano. Al momento dell'esame si chiederà allo studente di leggere e commentare brani significativi in lingua originale tratti dai testi adottati. Lo studente dovrà dimostrare di conoscere sia i testi presentati dal docente nel corso delle lezioni che gli studi critici relativi. Sono valutate positivamente la capacità di elaborare in modo autonomo e critico il materiale presentato dal docente e la capacità di capire, anche con l’ausilio dei testi critici adottati, i collegamenti tra i vari testi studiati, nonchè le relazioni tra i testi studiati e i contesti socio-culturali in cui essi si situano, con riferimento a scuole e correnti letterarie.

  8. Take notes, re-elaborate, summary, do your reading / work week by week; don’t wait until the last minute; do not ‘attempt’ • Students groups (on each act of Macbethand Othello)

  9. Primary Texts • W. SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets (ed. italiana Garzanti con testo a fronte) (Sonnets I, XX, CXXX). • W. SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth (ed. italiana Garzanti con testo a fronte). • W. SHAKESPEARE, Othello (ed. italiana Garzanti con testo a fronte).

  10. Criticism / History of Literature • CATTANEO, ARTURO, A Short History of English Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics, Milano, Mondadori, 2011 (capitolosu 'The Renaissance', pp. 37-101) • (Alternatively: P. BERTINETTI (a cura di), Storiadellaletteraturainglese. Dalleorigini al Settecento, vol. I, Torino, Einaudi, 2000 (capitolo 1, pp. 55-60; capitolo 2, pp. 61-109, pp. 122-206. • GARBER, MARJORIE, Shakespeare After All, New York, Anchor, 2005 (capitolosuMacbeth). [CUES] • LOOMBA, ANIA, Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama, Manchester, Manchester UP, 1989 (capitolosuOthello) [CUES] • Da F. MARENCO (a cura di), Storiadellaciviltàletterariainglese, Torino, UTET, 1996, vol. I, icapitoliseguenti [CUES]: • F. FERRARA, “Letteratura e comunicazionenell’epoca Tudor”, pp. 361-378. • S. GREENBLATT, “William Shakespeare drammaturgoelisabettiano”, pp. 551-575. • K. NEWMAN, “Politica del corpo: La rappresentazionedella donna all’iniziodellaetàmoderna,” pp. 967-978.

  11. Breakdown of classes • 42 hours • App. 24 hours dedicated to reading / commenting / contextualising Macbethand Othello • 12 hours to the history of literature, criticism, keywords, etc. • 4 hours dedicated to Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Sonnet tradition

  12. Next week • Reading: Bertinetti, p. 61-83 • Get a copy of Macbethand Othello

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