Marina LOPS | ENGLISH LITERATURE 5
Marina LOPS ENGLISH LITERATURE 5
cod. 4322100053
ENGLISH LITERATURE 5
| 4322100053 | |
| DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES | |
| EQF7 | |
| MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES | |
| 2016/2017 |
| YEAR OF COURSE 2 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2009 | |
| SECONDO SEMESTRE |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-LIN/10 | 6 | 42 | LESSONS |
| Objectives | |
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| THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO ENRICH THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, TO DEVELOP A MORE IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE LITERARY PHENOMENA AND OF THE SOCIOCULTURAL EXPERIENCES RELATED TO THEM, TO REFINE THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIFFERENT METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF LITERARY TEXTS AND TO IMPROVE THEIR CRITICAL AWARENESS. STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED IN VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS. |
| Prerequisites | |
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| GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE. STUDENTS MUST HAVE PASSED THE FOLLOWING EXAMS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE IV AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IV |
| Contents | |
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| THE COURSE WILL FOCUS ON THE REPRESENTATION OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN BRITISH CULTURE AND LITERATURE IN THE LATE-VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN PERIOD. AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE THE RISE OF A NEW SCIENCE, SEXOLOGY, AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ICONS, SUCH AS THE NEW WOMAN AND THE MALE AESTHETE, REDEFINED THE MEANINGS OF FEMININITY AND MASCULINITY AND TESTIFIED TO A GENERAL QUESTIONING OF TRADITIONAL GENDER BOUNDARIES AND IDENTITIES RESULTING IN CONFLICTING DISCOURSES OF SEXUAL POLITICS. AMONG THE TOPICS DISCUSSED WILL BE: 1) THE WOMAN QUESTION AND “THE NEW WOMAN”; 2) SEXOLOGY AND THE INVENTION OF SEXUAL TYPES; 3) MONSTROUS SEXUALITY: SALOME; 4) DANDIES, MALE AESTHETES, HOMOSEXUALS: FROM WILDE TO FORSTER. |
| Teaching Methods | |
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| LECTURES, SEMINARS. STUDENTS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO GIVE PRESENTATIONS OR WRITE SHORT ESSAYS ON TOPICS OF THEIR OWN CHOICE RELATED TO THE COURSE. |
| Verification of learning | |
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| FINAL ORAL EXAM IN ENGLISH. STUDENTS WILL BE ASKED TO DISCUSS THE PRIMARY TEXTS INCLUDED IN THE READING LIST USING THE CRITICAL MATERIAL RELATED TO THE TEXTS. SHORT ESSAYS WILL BE ASSESSED DURING THE COURSE. |
| Texts | |
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| READING LIST PRIMARY TEXTS SALLY LEDGER-ROGER LOCKHURST (EDS) THE FIN DE SIÈCLE. A READER IN CULTURALE HISTORY, OXFORD UP 2000. THE FOLLOWINGN ESSAYS: DEGENERATION: MAX NORDAU “DEGENERATION” (1895), W. JAMES “REVIEW OF DEGENERATION” SEXOLOGY: RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING “PSYCHOPATIA SEXUALIS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO ANTIPATHIC SEXUAL INSTINCTS (1886); EDWARD CARPENTER, “THE INTERMEDIATE SEX” (1894); JOHN ADDIGTON SYMONDS, “A PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS” (1896); HAVELOCK ELLIS “CASE XVIII” SEXUAL INVERSION (1897); THE NEW WOMAN: MONA CAIRD “MARRIAGE” (1888); SARAH GRAND “THE NEW ASPECT OF THE WOMAN QUESTION” (1894); MRS HUMPHRY WARDS “AN APPEAL AGAINST FEMALE SUFFRAGE” (1889); GEORGE EGERTON, “A CROSSLINE” (1893), IN KEYNOTES AND DISCORDS, LONDON, CONTINUUM, 2006 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”, IN ELAINE SHOWALTER (ED.), DAUGHTERS OF DECADENCE, VIRAGO PRESS, 1993, PP. 98-118 THOMAS HARDY, JUDE THE OBSCURE (1895) (ANY EDITION) O. WILDE SALOME (1893) (ANY EDITION) E M FORSTER MAURICE (1914, PUB. 1971) (ANY EDITION) CRITICISM ANDREW SANDERS, THE SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, IN PARTICOLARE IL CAPITOLO “LATE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LITERATURE 1880-1920”, OXFORD, OUP, 2004 LYN PYKETT, ENGENDERING FICTIONS, LONDON, ARNOLD, 1995, CAPP. 2 E 3 SALLY LEDGER, THE NEW WOMAN. FICTION AND FEMINISM AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE, MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER UP, 1997 (CAPP. 1, 7) DENNIS DENISOFF “DECADENCE AND AESTHETICISM”, IN GAIL MARSHALL (ED.), THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE FIN DE SIÈCLE, CAMBRIDGE, CUP, 2007 RICHARD A. KAYE “SEXUALITY AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE” IN GAIL MARSHALL (ED.), THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE FIN DE SIÈCLE, CAMBRIDGE, CUP, 2007 ELAINE SHOWALTER, SEXUAL ANARCHY. GENDER AND CULTURE AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE, LONDON, BLOOMSBURY, 1991 (CAPP. 1, 3. 8) JOSEPH BRISTOW, SEXUALITY, NEW YORK, ROUTLEDGE, 2011, CAP. 1 M. FOUCAULT, STORIA DELLA SESSUALITÀ, VOL. 1 LA VOLONTÀ DI SAPERE, MILANO, FELTRINELLI, 19 MARTIN ROBERT K., “EDWARD CARPENTER AND THE DOUBLE STRUCTURE OF MAURICE”, IN J.H. STAPE (ED.), E.M. FORSTER. CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS, 4 VOLS, LONDON, HELM, 1998, VOL. IV RELATIONS AND ASPECTS: THE MODERN CRITICAL RESPONSE, 1945-1990, PP. 29-38 FURTHER MATERIAL WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE |
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| FURTHER MATERIAL WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE. STUDENTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND CLASSES. |
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