English Language and Literature (i) (2008/2009)

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Course code
4S01394
Name of lecturer
Yvonne Bezrucka
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Academic sector
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
Secondo semestre dal Feb 23, 2009 al May 30, 2009.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

The course: “Literary Modernism: the Content/Form Contention” will analyse two of the most significant works of modernist literature. The experimental literature of the period will be linked to the crisis of the realistic style of the 19th century and the ensuing crisis of mimesis. The aim of the course is to render students famliar with the main literary, cultural, and historical features of the period.

Syllabus

Syllabus:
Virginia Woolf,To the Lighthouse [1927], Penguin o Oxford
G. Stein, Three Lives, [1914], Penguin, London 1990
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, (La terra desolata, Einaudi, Torino, o edizione edita da Roberto Sanesi).

Critical bibliography:

G. Cianci, “Introduzione”, Modernismo/modernismi: dall’avanguardia storica agli anni
Trenta e oltre, Principato, Milano 1991, pp. 15-45.
C. Corti, “Il recupero del mitologico”, in G. Cianci a c. di, Modernismo/modernismi:
dall’avanguardia storica agli anni Trenta e oltre, Principato, Milano 1991, pp. 314-
38.
Frank, Joseph, “Spatial Form in Modern Literature”, Sewanee Review, 53, 1945
Y. Bezrucka, “L'estetica di 'To the Lighthouse': la tentazione della bellezza astratta e il
rifiuto delle 'strane indicazioni'”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Letterature Straniere Moderne dell'Università di Genova, 7, 1994, pp. 291-315.
YY. Bezrucka,“Virginia Woolf: Life-Living and Life-Writing, Collage, ‘Planes Parallels’,Montage and Design”, parzialmente pubblicato in A. Righetti, a c., The Protean Forms of Life Writing. Auto/Biography in English, 1680-2000, Liguori, Napoli 2008, pp. 213-28, va studiato nella sua versione integrale, scaricabile al sito: http://www.da.univr.it/dol/main?ent=persona&id=879 - settore CV.

For the history of literature please refer to this compendium:
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. II, Norton, New York last ed.
Suggested further readings are: J.C. Wells, Longman Pronouncing Dictionary, Harlow, Pearson, 2000; Collins Cobuilt, English Language Dictionary, Collins, 2001; F. Picchi, Grande dizionario Inglese/Italiano, Italiano/Inglese, Hoepli, 1999.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral

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