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update 17 dec 2023

 

My module of Cross-atlantic will end in January 2024 with two lessons:

 

The first, from remote (12/1/2024), will be also on some examples of war poets (to compare with Auden's 'Spain' and 'Journey to a War'). 

link ZOOM, 'stanza personale' -  https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/5213207536

 

The second (19/1/2024) will be a talk by Dr Paola Tonussi, on the 'War Poets'. To this talk all students are warmly invited to take part, and sign the list of attendance. 

 

Some details are in 'Classroom'

 

 

 

 

 

Classroom code: 45x4ulf.  Students can register and download material from Classroom.

 

LESSONS 2023-24:  Fridays, h14-16, Room 103.

Modulo Cross-Atlantic, cfu 3. In this course a selection of poems by W. H. Auden will be examined, and the seemingly clear-cut division between an English and an American Auden will be explored. 

 

As from the 20th of October, lessons will continue on Fridays, room 103,  h. 14-16.

 

 

ESAMI  (Aggiornamento del 31/8/2023)

 

Si comunica che a partire dal 1 novembre non potrò più fare esami relativi ai miei insegnamenti. Le date di settembre quindi sono le ultime utili, ma ci sarà un ulteriore appello verso la fine di ottobre. 

 

(Tuttavia, anche successivamente, gli studenti potranno sostenere esami con qualche altro/a docente, a seconda delle assegnazioni che stabiliranno, a tempo debito, gli organi competenti).

 

 

 

RICEVIMENTO

 

Il ricevimento, a partire, dal 1 settembre 2023, si terrà solo da remoto salvo ulteriori segnalazioni e necessità (il giovedì, ore 17-18.30).

Il link è ZOOM, 'stanza personale' -  https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/5213207536

 

Il link di prenotazione esami Google Form è: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCLQa27NHaLbjHiCdy_OKVlfaUI1jRU4-SUJuUS53LWJ127g/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

 

Course Code Year Course - Attendance Bulletin board
CROSS ATLANTIC: 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE B 1047575 2023/2024
OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES AAF1809 2022/2023
LETTERATURA INGLESE III 1032147 2022/2023

Lingue, Culture, Letterature, Traduzione L-11

2022-23

29949;   1032147;  

 

1032147 - Letteratura inglese III, 12 cfu, canale A-L (insegnamento integrato: 6 cfu (36+12 ore) Prof. Mario Martino  + 6 cfu (36+12 ore), Prof. Laura Talarico)  

Modulo a cura del Prof. Mario Martino, 6 cfu:

Il corso si propone di esaminare  le principali istanze  innovative del Novecento  letterario inglese, e di seguire le dinamiche tanto di conflitto con la tradizione quanto di confronto e recupero della stessa. In tale ottica si esamineranno più da vicino alcune opere del Novecento, in particolare di S. Beckett. 

In this course the main innovative instances of the 20th century literature will be examined, with regard to both the breaking up with the literary tradition, and the coming to terms with it. In this perspective, our focus will be on key-works of the period, mainly by S. Beckett.

 

Prerequisiti: Buona conoscenza della lingua inglese

Good knowledge of English language.

 

Modalità di svolgimento: Le lezioni si svolgeranno in presenza, salvo diverse indicazioni delle autorità accademiche, in conseguenza del coronavirus.

Front lessons, in attendance, except for any different indication by the academic authorities, due to coronavirus.

Frequenza, si consiglia la frequenza, anche se non c'è obbligo.

Students are advised to attend lessons, although attendance is not mandatory.

 

Testi primari:

S. Beckett, Waiting for GodotEndgameHappy Days, PlayNot I, Quad.

 

 

Reading List

T.S. Eliot: "Prufrock"

D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

J. Joyce, Ulysses, (capitoli I-IV)

 

 

Criticism:

T.S. Eliot: “Ulysses, Order, and Myth”,

--“Tradition and the Individual Talent”, 

--"Dante" (1929),

S. Beckett, "Dante… Bruno.Vico.. Joyce,

Poole, A., Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans, Bloomsbury, 2013. (introduzione e capitolo relativo a Beckett, di Dan Gunn] 

Loftis, S., “Some remains: forgetting Shakespeare in Endgame and Happy days” in Id., Shakespeare’s Surrogates, Palgrave, 2013. 

Adorno, Th.,  "Tentativo di capire finale di partita". 

Elam, K., "Dead heads: damnation-narration in the 'dramaticules'", in J. Pilling  (a cura di), The Cambridge Companion to Beckett, Cambridge U.P., 1994, pp. 145-166

 

Per l’esame gli studenti devono conoscere la storia della letteratura inglese dell'Ottocento e del Novecento, basandosi su uno dei seguenti manuali, a scelta: 

-  M. Praz, Storia della letteratura inglese, Firenze, Sansoni, 1991, vol 2°; 

-  P. Bertinetti, Storia della letteratura inglese, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, vol. 2°; 

-  L. Crisafulli, K. Elam (a cura di), Manuale di cultura e letteratura inglese, Bononia U.P., 2008.

Oppure, in inglese: 

-  A. Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford U.P., 2000; trad. it.; A. Anzi (a cura di), Storia della letteratura inglese – dal secolo XIX al postmoderno, vol. II, Milano, Mondadori, 2001); 

-  A. Fowler, A History of English Literature, Oxford, Blackwell, 1989; 

-  M. Alexander, A History of English Literature, New York, St. Martin's, 2000. 

Si consiglia inoltre una delle seguenti storie e antologie della letteratura inglese: 

-  M. H. Abrams (a cura di), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, New York, vol. II. 

oppure: 

-  F. Kermode, J. Hollander (a cura di), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, vol. II, Oxford, Oxford U.P. 

 

 

 

NON FREQUENTANTI: può essere utile leggere anche, di P. Bertinetti, Invito alla lettura di Beckett, Milano, Mursia.

 

 

 

 

IN INGLESE

Primary texts:

S. Beckett, Waiting for GodotEndgameHappy Days, PlayNot I, Quad.

 

Reading List

T.S. Eliot: "Prufrock"

D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

J. Joyce, Ulysses, (capitoli I-IV)

 

 

Criticism:

T.S. Eliot: “Ulysses, Order, and Myth”,

--“Tradition and the Individual Talent”,

--"Dante" (1929),

S. Beckett, "Dante… Bruno.Vico.. Joyce,

Poole, A., Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans, Bloomsbury, 2013. (introduction + chapter on Beckett, by Dan Gunn]

Loftis, S., “Some remains: forgetting Shakespeare in Endgame and Happy days” in Id., Shakespeare’s Surrogates, Palgrave, 2013.

Adorno, Th.,  "Trying to understand Endgame".

Elam, K., "Dead heads: damnation-narration in the 'dramaticules'", in J. Pilling  (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Beckett, Cambridge U.P., 1994, pp. 145-166

 

MANUALI di storia della letteratura.

To sit the exam students need to know the English literary history, from Chaucer to Milton (circa), reading carefully at least one of the following:

-  M. Praz, Storia della letteratura inglese, Firenze, Sansoni, 1991, vol 2°; 

-  P. Bertinetti, Storia della letteratura inglese, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, vol. 2°; 

-  L. Crisafulli, K. Elam (a cura di), Manuale di cultura e letteratura inglese, Bononia U.P., 2008.

Oppure, in inglese: 

-  A. Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford U.P., 2000; trad. it.; A. Anzi (a cura di), Storia della letteratura inglese – dal secolo XIX al postmoderno, vol. II, Milano, Mondadori, 2001); 

-  A. Fowler, A History of English Literature, Oxford, Blackwell, 1989; 

-  M. Alexander, A History of English Literature, New York, St. Martin's, 2000. 

 

Reference texts (optional, and for the parts related to the program only):  -  M. H. Abrams (Ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, New York, vol. II; 

or: 

-  F. Kermode, J. Hollander (a cura di), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, vol. II, Oxford, Oxford U.P. 

 

 

NB:  Pe quanto riguarda la sola parte relativa ai Manuali di storia letteraria, ess sarà sostenuta o con Martino (studenti A-C) o con Talarico (studenti D-L).

LETTERATURA INGLESE - APPROFONDIMENTO II 10595773 2022/2023

Programmi 2022-23

    

 SLLT  codice 10595773, 6 cfu: 

 

 

 

Approfondimento metacritico della metodologia di lavoro (analisi critica della bibliografia corrente, capacità di lavoro diretto su testi e casi di studio particolarmente complessi), anche in rapporto ai più recenti indirizzi della ricerca.

In depth-acquisition of a metacritical view of work methodologies (analysis of current critical literature, interpretation of complex texts, case studies), in relation to most recent research directions.

 

Prerequisiti

Buona conoscenza dell'inglese, e di opere narrative, poetiche e drammatiche della letteratura inglese; buona conoscenza della storia letteraria inglese.

Good knowledge of the English language and of narrative, lyric and dramatic works of the English literature; good knowledge of the English literary history.

 

Shakespeare e l’arte: autoconsapevolezza artistica e meta-poesia nella produzione poetica e drammaturgica di Shakespeare. In questo corso si esamineranno i Sonetti di Shakespeare con attenzione particolare al tema dell’arte, vista tanto nella sua forza e potere quanto nei suoi limiti.

A complemento dei Sonetti, una reading list servirà a delineare in primo luogo lo sviluppo della poesia e della forma ‘sonetto’ in Inghilterra; in secondo luogo, toccherà alcuni dei più grandi drammi di Shakespeare che condividono con i Sonetti un pari grado di rilevanza meta-poetica. 

 

Shakespeare on art: self-conscious and meta-poetic poems and plays in Shakespeare’s works. 

In this course Shakespeare’s Sonnets will be examined with particular focus on the theme of art, seen both in its power and its limitations. A reading list will complement the Sonnets, in order to firstly highlight the development of the poetic and lyric tradition in England, from Chaucer to Milton; and secondly, to show how some of the greatest plays by Shakespeare share with the Sonnets a comparable degree of meta-poetic relevance. 

 

 

 

 

lezioni frontali e discussioni seminariali

front lectures in attendance and seminars

 

L'esame consisterà in una prova, orale, atta a verificare la conoscenza dei testi primari esaminati in classe, dei testi inclusi nella reading list, della bibliografia critica, e della storia letteraria inglese. L'esame si svolgerà in inglese. Relazioni scritte/presentazioni da parte dello studente varrà per 1/3 dell'esame.

Through an oral examination, it will be tested the knowledge of: the primary texts examined in classes, the texts included in the reading list, the critical bibliography,  and the English literary history. The exam will be in English. Papers written by students/presentations will make up for one third of the exam.

 

 

per i frequentanti, richiesto almeno il 75% delle lezioni

Attending students need 75% of the lessons

 

 

 

 

Primary texts:

 

Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, and Sidney (selection of poems, with Italian models).

 

Shakespeare:  The Sonnets (Kerrigan, J., [Ed.] Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986; or any other major edition: i.e., Arden, Cambridge, Oxford); or, with translations in Italian: Serpieri, I sonetti, Milano, Rizzoli.  

 

J.  Donne, from Songs and Sonnets "The Sunne Rising", "The Good Morrow"; from Holy Sonnets: sonnet XIV. 

Milton: “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”

 

 

Reading List:

 

G. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales ("General prologue" and "The wife of Bath's Tale").

 

Shakespeare:  

Hamlet, (any major editions in English: Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, Penguin).

The Tempest (any major editions in English: Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, Penguin).

 

 

Criticism

Auden, W.H., "Sonnets",  in Kirsch (Ed.),  Lectures on Shakespeare, Princeton, Princeton UP, pp. 86-100. 

Booth, S.,   "The Value of the Sonnets", in Schoenfeldt M. (Ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 15-26. 

Hawkes, T., "Shakespeare and New Critical Approaches", in Wells S. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 287-302.

Kernan, Alvin, “From the Great House to the Public Theatre: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Failure of Patronage” e “The Great Globe Itself” in Id., The Playwright as Magician, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1979,   pp. 23-48 e pp. 129-145.

Melchiori, G., "'Tis better to be vile': Sonnet 121 and the Ethics of Social Behaviour", in Id., Shakespeare Dramatic Meditations, Oxford, Oxford UP, pp.  71-103.

Kenneth Muir, “Shakespeare’s Poets”, in  Shakespeare Survey, n. 23, pp. 91-100, CUP, 2010

Rackin, Ph.,  “The Lady’s Reeking Breath”, in Shakespeare and Women, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 95-111.

Shapiro, M., “Role-Playing, Reflexivity, and Metadrama in Recent Shakespearean Criticism”, Renaissance Drama Vol. 12, 1981.

Vendler, H.  "Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets", in Schoenfeldt M. (Ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 27-44.

 

 

Students need to know the English literary history, from Chaucer to Milton (circa), reading carefully at least one of the following:

Sanders, A., The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford U; Bertinetti, P.,  English Literature. A Short History, Torino, Einaudi;  Alexander, M., A History of English Literature; Fowler, A., A History of English Literature, Oxford, Blackwell; Albert E., History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford UP; (or any other English Literary History).

Available in Italian: Coronato, R., Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit, Le Monnier Università, 2022.

 

Reference texts (optional, and for the parts related to the program only):  Kermode F. e Hollander J. (Eds), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1973; or, Abrams M. H. (Ed.),  The Norton Anthology of English Literature vol. I, 2006.

 

Also optional, but useful especially for non-attending students:

Coronato, R., Guida alla Tempesta, Roma, Carocci, 2022.

Coronato, R., La tempesta, testo  a fronte, Milano, Rizzoli, 2008. 

Elam, K., Amleto, Milano, Rizzoli, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENGLISH LITERATURE I-M 1047500 2022/2023

Programmi 2022-23

LM EAAS codice 1047500

    

 

 

In depth-acquisition of a metacritical view of work methodologies (analysis of current critical literature, interpretation of complex texts, case studies), in relation to most recent research directions.

 

Prerequisiti

 

Good knowledge of the English language and of narrative, lyric and dramatic works of the English literature; good knowledge of the English literary history.

 

 

Shakespeare on art: self-conscious and meta-poetic poems and plays in Shakespeare’s works. 

In this course Shakespeare’s Sonnets will be examined with particular focus on the theme of art, seen both in its power and its limitations. A reading list will complement the Sonnets, in order to firstly highlight the development of the poetic and lyric tradition in England, from Chaucer to Milton; and secondly, to show how some of the greatest plays by Shakespeare share with the Sonnets a comparable degree of meta-poetic relevance. 

 

front lectures in attendance and seminars

 

Through an oral examination, it will be tested the knowledge of: the primary texts examined in classes, the texts included in the reading list, the critical bibliography,  and the English literary history. The exam will be in English. Papers written by students/presentations will make up for one third of the exam.

 

 

Attending students need 75% of the lessons

 

 

 

 

Primary texts:

 

Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, and Sidney (selection of poems, with Italian models).

 

Shakespeare:  The Sonnets (Kerrigan, J., [Ed.] Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986; or any other major edition: i.e., Arden, Cambridge, Oxford); or, with translations in Italian: Serpieri, I sonetti, Milano, Rizzoli.  

 

J.  Donne, from Songs and Sonnets "The Sunne Rising", "The Good Morrow"; from Holy Sonnets: sonnet XIV. 

Milton: “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”

 

 

Reading List:

 

G. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales ("General prologue" and "The wife of Bath's Tale").

 

Shakespeare:  

Hamlet, (any major editions in English: Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, Penguin).

The Tempest (any major editions in English: Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, Penguin).

 

 

Criticism

Auden, W.H., "Sonnets",  in Kirsch (Ed.),  Lectures on Shakespeare, Princeton, Princeton UP, pp. 86-100. 

Booth, S.,   "The Value of the Sonnets", in Schoenfeldt M. (Ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 15-26. 

Hawkes, T., "Shakespeare and New Critical Approaches", in Wells S. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 287-302.

Kernan, Alvin, “From the Great House to the Public Theatre: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Failure of Patronage” e “The Great Globe Itself” in Id., The Playwright as Magician, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1979,   pp. 23-48 e pp. 129-145.

Melchiori, G., "'Tis better to be vile': Sonnet 121 and the Ethics of Social Behaviour", in Id., Shakespeare Dramatic Meditations, Oxford, Oxford UP, pp.  71-103.

Kenneth Muir, “Shakespeare’s Poets”, in  Shakespeare Survey, n. 23, pp. 91-100, CUP, 2010

Rackin, Ph.,  “The Lady’s Reeking Breath”, in Shakespeare and Women, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 95-111.

Shapiro, M., “Role-Playing, Reflexivity, and Metadrama in Recent Shakespearean Criticism”, Renaissance Drama Vol. 12, 1981.

Vendler, H.  "Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets", in Schoenfeldt M. (Ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 27-44.

 

 

Students need to know the English literary history, from Chaucer to Milton (circa), reading carefully at least one of the following:

Sanders, A., The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford U; Bertinetti, P.,  English Literature. A Short History, Torino, Einaudi;  Alexander, M., A History of English Literature; Fowler, A., A History of English Literature, Oxford, Blackwell; Albert E., History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford UP; (or any other English Literary History).

Available in Italian: Coronato, R., Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit, Le Monnier Università, 2022.

 

Reference texts (optional, and for the parts related to the program only):  Kermode F. e Hollander J. (Eds), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1973; or, Abrams M. H. (Ed.),  The Norton Anthology of English Literature vol. I, 2006.

 

Also optional, but useful especially for non-attending students:

Coronato, R., Guida alla Tempesta, Roma, Carocci, 2022.

Coronato, R., La tempesta, testo  a fronte, Milano, Rizzoli, 2008. 

Elam, K., Amleto, Milano, Rizzoli, 2006.

OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES AAF1809 2021/2022
LETTERATURA INGLESE III 1032147 2021/2022
ENGLISH LITERATURE I-M 1047500 2021/2022
LETTERATURA INGLESE - APPROFONDIMENTO II 10595773 2021/2022
OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES AAF1809 2020/2021
ENGLISH LITERATURE I-M 1047500 2020/2021
LETTERATURA INGLESE III 1032147 2020/2021
LETTERATURA INGLESE - APPROFONDIMENTO II 10595773 2020/2021
LETTERATURA INGLESE I 1025703 2020/2021
OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES AAF1809 2019/2020
ENGLISH LITERATURE I-M 1047500 2019/2020
IN-DEPTH COURSE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE II 10589229 2019/2020
LETTERATURA INGLESE I 1025702 2019/2020
OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES AAF1809 2018/2019
English Literature III-M 1047496 2018/2019
LETTERATURA INGLESE I 1025702 2018/2019
IN-DEPTH COURSE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE II 10589229 2018/2019
English Literature III-M 1047496 2018/2019
English Literature I-M 1047471 2017/2018
ENGLISH AND ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE I-M 1055066 2017/2018
LETTERATURA INGLESE I 1025702 2017/2018
English Literature I-M 1047471 2016/2017
LETTERATURA INGLESE I 1025702 2016/2017
CROSS ATLANTIC: 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE B 1047575 2016/2017
TESTI E QUESTIONI DI LETTERATURA INGLESE 1023316 2016/2017
ENGLISH LITERATURE I-M 1047500 2016/2017
LETTERATURA INGLESE 1023947 2016/2017

Il ricevimento, a partire, dal 23 febbraio 2023, si terrà solo da remoto salvo ulteriori segnalazioni e necessità, il giovedì, dalle 17 alle 18.30 (e non il mercoledì, come erroneamente compare in qualche luogo).

Il link è ZOOM, 'stanza personale' - https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/5213207536