ID:
500063
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LETTERATURA INGLESE
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course is an introduction to twentieth- and early twenty-first-century English literature through the analysis of major works of the period and the investigation of their relationship both with tradition and the coeval cultural context. At the end of the course students are expected to be able to analyse literary texts, to relate them to their author's production and to set them in context.
Course Prerequisites
Language level: B1 as recognised by the Common European Framework of Reference.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, mainly in English. Introduction to periods, genres, authors will be followed by translation and analysis of selected texts.
Assessment Methods
The exam will be oral and in English. The exam will assess the students' knowledge of periods, authors, and texts of twentieth-century English literature.
Texts
Required Reading:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, eleventh edition, Volume F: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The list of periods/authors/texts students will study on the Norton Anthology will be uploaded on Kiro.
Students will also read 3 novels, choosing a novel from each group - a), b), c) - (in any edition), of which one at least in English.
a) J.Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
V.Woolf, Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse
D.H.Lawrence, Women in Love or Lady Chatterley's Lover
b) C.Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
G.Greene, The Power and the Glory or The Third Man
E.Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
G.Orwell, Animal Farm
c) M.Spark, Memento Mori
J. Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
I. McEwan, The Child in Time or Saturday
K.Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go
W.Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
H.Hamilton, The Speckled People
M.Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
S.Barry, The Secret Scripture
T.Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
History of Literature:
From the volume English Literature - Vol. II From Romanticism to the Present, by Rocco Coronato, Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2025: from Part Nine (all) to Part Ten (to ch.5 included), pp.243-368.
Critical bibliography:
B.Stewart, "James Joyce", in The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel, ed. by J.Wilson Foster Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,2006, pp.133-152. It can be read at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-companions once students have modified their ProxyBib in the browser they use. See how to do it: http://biblioteche.unipv.it/home/servizi/connessione-da-fuori-ateneo
Ch.3 "Plays", in The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett, by R. McDonald, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.29-43. It can be read at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-introduction-to-samuel-beckett/A334C99BEFB9F23BBD61C757AD4BC45A once students have modified their ProxyBib in the browser they use. See how to do it: http://biblioteche.unipv.it/home/servizi/connessione-da-fuori-ateneo
NON attending students
In addition to the above, non attending students will also study the following critical essays:
J.Longenbach, "'Mature poets steal': Eliot's allusive practice", dal volume The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (A. David Moody ed., 1994), pp.176-188.
J.Wallace, "Modernists on the art of Fiction", dal volume The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel, a cura di M.Shiach, 2007, pp.15-31. It can be read/downloaded at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-companions once students have modified their ProxyBib in the browser they use. See how to do it: http://biblioteche.unipv.it/home/servizi/connessione-da-fuori-ateneo
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, eleventh edition, Volume F: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The list of periods/authors/texts students will study on the Norton Anthology will be uploaded on Kiro.
Students will also read 3 novels, choosing a novel from each group - a), b), c) - (in any edition), of which one at least in English.
a) J.Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
V.Woolf, Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse
D.H.Lawrence, Women in Love or Lady Chatterley's Lover
b) C.Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
G.Greene, The Power and the Glory or The Third Man
E.Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
G.Orwell, Animal Farm
c) M.Spark, Memento Mori
J. Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
I. McEwan, The Child in Time or Saturday
K.Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go
W.Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
H.Hamilton, The Speckled People
M.Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
S.Barry, The Secret Scripture
T.Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
History of Literature:
From the volume English Literature - Vol. II From Romanticism to the Present, by Rocco Coronato, Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2025: from Part Nine (all) to Part Ten (to ch.5 included), pp.243-368.
Critical bibliography:
B.Stewart, "James Joyce", in The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel, ed. by J.Wilson Foster Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,2006, pp.133-152. It can be read at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-companions once students have modified their ProxyBib in the browser they use. See how to do it: http://biblioteche.unipv.it/home/servizi/connessione-da-fuori-ateneo
Ch.3 "Plays", in The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett, by R. McDonald, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.29-43. It can be read at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-introduction-to-samuel-beckett/A334C99BEFB9F23BBD61C757AD4BC45A once students have modified their ProxyBib in the browser they use. See how to do it: http://biblioteche.unipv.it/home/servizi/connessione-da-fuori-ateneo
NON attending students
In addition to the above, non attending students will also study the following critical essays:
J.Longenbach, "'Mature poets steal': Eliot's allusive practice", dal volume The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (A. David Moody ed., 1994), pp.176-188.
J.Wallace, "Modernists on the art of Fiction", dal volume The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel, a cura di M.Shiach, 2007, pp.15-31. It can be read/downloaded at the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-companions once students have modified their ProxyBib in the browser they use. See how to do it: http://biblioteche.unipv.it/home/servizi/connessione-da-fuori-ateneo
Contents
Introduction to twentieth- and early twenty-first-century English literature through the analysis of poetic, dramatic and fictional texts. The texts that will be analysed are in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (11th edition). In addition to the texts in the Norton Anthology, for the exam students are also required to read 3 novels, at least one of which in English, to study the critical essays, and the sections of the History of Literature volume as specified below.
Course Language
English
More information
Students who cannot attend lectures for reasons listed at the following link: https://portale.unipv.it/it/didattica/servizi-lo-studente/modalita-didattiche-inclusive are invited to contact the lecturer (elena.cottaramusino@unipv.it) for further explanations. Students are required to enrol on the 'Letteratura inglese 1' course on Kiro (https://elearning.unipv.it/), where they will find information and any further material. Students should enrol on Kiro with their university of Pavia mail address.
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