ID:
502060
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 main aim of the course is to investigate some areas of literary criticism, poetics, textual analysis and/or historical and cultural contexts in order to enable students to master an author, a genre or a literary period with critical awareness. The course will offer an example of how critical literary topics can be addressed so that students can handle proper methods of analysis and be able to work independently on their final dissertation.
Course Prerequisites
The course is devoted to first and second year students of the Master Course in Languages and Literatures for Intercultural Communication. All students are expected to be familiar with the main texts of English Literature. They should also be able to use English fluently (their expected level: at least B2).
Teaching Methods
Lectures and oral/written presentations by students. The introduction to periods, historical events and authors will be followed by reading, translation and analysis of the primary texts
Assessment Methods
The exam is oral and in English. Students’ knowledge of the primary and secondary texts included in the bibliography and of the main events of the history of the period will be assessed, as well as their understanding of the texts discussed in class and their ability to grasp the import of the critical essays.
Texts
Coursebook: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century, Tenth edition, vol.B
The single poems that will be analysed in class will be indicated before the lectures.
A list of all the poems studied in class will be uploaded on Kiro.
Below the list of the sections students will study on the Norton volume.
The English Bible – Faith in Conflict, pp.143-145
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) pp.891-919
John Donne, pp.920-922
Ben Jonson, pp.991-993
George Herbert, pp.1255-1257
Henry Vaughan, pp.1276-1277
Richard Crashaw, pp.1290-91
Robert Herrick, p.1306
Thomas Carew, pp.1318-19
Andrew Marvell, pp.1339-40
John Milton, pp.1447-1451
Critical bibliography : “Introduction”, in George Parfitt, English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (second edition), 1992, Routledge, (no page number, the book is online on the Perlego platform. Students should write to Reference to get access to the platform)
Ch.1 (David Loewenstein) “Politics and Religion”, pp.3-30;
Ch.9 (Helen Wilcox), “George Herbert”, pp. 183-199 e
Ch.14 (Donald M. Friedman), “Andrew Marvell”, pp. 275-303 in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, from Donne to Marvell, ed.by Thomas Corns, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ch.9 (Achsah Guibbory), “Erotic poetry”, pp. 133-148 e
Ch.10 (Helen Wilcox), “Devotional writing”, pp. 149-166 in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed.by Achsah Guibbory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
T.S.Eliot: “The Metaphysical Poets”
NON Attending Students In addition to the above, non attending students will also study the following critical essays:
Ch.3 (Arthur F. Mariotti), "Manuscript, print, and the social history of the lyric", pp.52-79, in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, from Donne to Marvell, ed.by Thomas Corns, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ch.2 (Ted-Larry Pebworth), "The text of Donne’s writings", pp.23-34, in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed.by Achsah Guibbory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
The Cambridge Companions 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
The single poems that will be analysed in class will be indicated before the lectures.
A list of all the poems studied in class will be uploaded on Kiro.
Below the list of the sections students will study on the Norton volume.
The English Bible – Faith in Conflict, pp.143-145
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) pp.891-919
John Donne, pp.920-922
Ben Jonson, pp.991-993
George Herbert, pp.1255-1257
Henry Vaughan, pp.1276-1277
Richard Crashaw, pp.1290-91
Robert Herrick, p.1306
Thomas Carew, pp.1318-19
Andrew Marvell, pp.1339-40
John Milton, pp.1447-1451
Critical bibliography : “Introduction”, in George Parfitt, English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (second edition), 1992, Routledge, (no page number, the book is online on the Perlego platform. Students should write to Reference to get access to the platform)
Ch.1 (David Loewenstein) “Politics and Religion”, pp.3-30;
Ch.9 (Helen Wilcox), “George Herbert”, pp. 183-199 e
Ch.14 (Donald M. Friedman), “Andrew Marvell”, pp. 275-303 in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, from Donne to Marvell, ed.by Thomas Corns, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ch.9 (Achsah Guibbory), “Erotic poetry”, pp. 133-148 e
Ch.10 (Helen Wilcox), “Devotional writing”, pp. 149-166 in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed.by Achsah Guibbory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
T.S.Eliot: “The Metaphysical Poets”
NON Attending Students In addition to the above, non attending students will also study the following critical essays:
Ch.3 (Arthur F. Mariotti), "Manuscript, print, and the social history of the lyric", pp.52-79, in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, from Donne to Marvell, ed.by Thomas Corns, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ch.2 (Ted-Larry Pebworth), "The text of Donne’s writings", pp.23-34, in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed.by Achsah Guibbory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
The Cambridge Companions 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
Contents
The course will introduce the early seventeenth century, from the ascent to the throne of James I to the Restoration, paying attention to the main historical events and the religious conflicts of the period. The main objective of the course will be the study of metaphysical poetry, in particular of John Donne's work, whose critical reception and 'rediscovery' in the twentieth century will be analysed. Poems by George Herbert and Andrew Marvell will also be analysed.
Course Language
English
More information
Students are required to enrol on the 'Letteratura inglese -A (c.p.)' 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. 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.
Degrees
Degrees
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Master’s Degree
2 years
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