English Culture I
A.Y. 2021/2022
Learning objectives
Students will be given the opportunity of completing and articulating their linguistic proficiency through the cultural awareness of cultures, arts and literatures defining the English, Anglo-American and Anglophone cultures. Students will be enabled to understand textsfrom heterogeneous cultural areas (literary, critic, cinematic and theatrical). Texts will be selected according to the course program.
Basic theoretical tools belonging to the field of Cultural Studies will be provided, also teaching the students how to prepare a synopsis and how to organize an ffective slide presentation.
Basic theoretical tools belonging to the field of Cultural Studies will be provided, also teaching the students how to prepare a synopsis and how to organize an ffective slide presentation.
Expected learning outcomes
The student must show the ability to understand and analyse texts of various kind, in English, correctly framing them within their cultural and historical context. He/she must be able to analyse their adaptations in different time, space and genres, possibly providing a critical reading of these adaptations. He/she must be able to presento rally his/her when sitting for the exam, organizing contents in the most effective way and following the professor's suggestions during classes or tutorial activities, if proposed.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
A-D
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
In the emergency teaching phase, should it become necessary to use online teaching, the program designed for face-to-face teaching is modified as follows:
Teaching methods:
The lessons will be held in synchronous, trying to enhance interaction (chat and forum), using mainly Teams; only in specific cases and duly communicated, the lessons will be held in asynchronous (videolessons). In case there will be activities in presence (following the indications of the university), students who will not participate will be offered an alternative online activity that will allow them to develop the same critical and text analysis skills.
The timetable of the lessons remains unchanged and all the most important information will be provided through the ARIEL website of the course.
The methods and criteria for attending the lessons in attendance, which require a reservation with the appropriate app, will be published in good time on the ARIEL website of the course.
Reference materials:
The syllabus is ket untouched. For those who decide not to attend the course, we recommend the supporting bibliography.
Testing and grading
The exam is oral and will be conducted, in the case of online teaching, in Microsoft Teams, according to the indications provided by the University. The requirements and methods of evaluation remain the same with respect to the "in presence" program.
Teaching methods:
The lessons will be held in synchronous, trying to enhance interaction (chat and forum), using mainly Teams; only in specific cases and duly communicated, the lessons will be held in asynchronous (videolessons). In case there will be activities in presence (following the indications of the university), students who will not participate will be offered an alternative online activity that will allow them to develop the same critical and text analysis skills.
The timetable of the lessons remains unchanged and all the most important information will be provided through the ARIEL website of the course.
The methods and criteria for attending the lessons in attendance, which require a reservation with the appropriate app, will be published in good time on the ARIEL website of the course.
Reference materials:
The syllabus is ket untouched. For those who decide not to attend the course, we recommend the supporting bibliography.
Testing and grading
The exam is oral and will be conducted, in the case of online teaching, in Microsoft Teams, according to the indications provided by the University. The requirements and methods of evaluation remain the same with respect to the "in presence" program.
Course syllabus
In working on cultural mediation, the course focuses on non-normative bodies and integration exploiting the tools of Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field. The thematic hub of the course resides in the issues of diversity and resistance, diversity and integration, anomalous bodies and art.
The course includes a wide variety of texts: novels & plays; memoirs reporting on the experience of exclusion or marginality; works of imagination, by themselves helping to depict the experience of being a dropout, films, documentary films, works of art.
Events involving novelists, actors and playwrights working on this issue are planned within the frame of the course, and will be communicated in advance. A collaboration with Teatro dell'Elfo is also planned. Students - both attending and non-attending - are invited to participate: the initiatives will be part of the final evaluation.
The course includes a wide variety of texts: novels & plays; memoirs reporting on the experience of exclusion or marginality; works of imagination, by themselves helping to depict the experience of being a dropout, films, documentary films, works of art.
Events involving novelists, actors and playwrights working on this issue are planned within the frame of the course, and will be communicated in advance. A collaboration with Teatro dell'Elfo is also planned. Students - both attending and non-attending - are invited to participate: the initiatives will be part of the final evaluation.
Prerequisites for admission
Students must have a general knowledge of the historical context as related to the topics tackled during the course ("knowledge"). In addition, they must be able to understand basic texts in English, both written and visual/aural ones ("understanding"); they must show to possess communicative skills, in English and/or in Italian, so as to render the concepts they want to express comprehensible ("Applied knowledge and comprehension abilities").
Teaching methods
Lecture-based classes, including some team working and occasional guest speakers and, whenever possible, workshops in small groups, oriented to develop oral skills in particular.
Teaching Resources
PART ONE - THE UNNATURAL BODY
- M. Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 - any edition, possibly in English)
-J. Winterson, Frankissstein (2019 - any edition, possibly in English)
Critical resources:
- AAVV, Introduzione ai Cultural Studies. UK, USA e paesi anglofoni. Roma, Carocci, 2016 (soltanto la parte prima)
- N. Vallorani, Anticorpi, Milano, Il Libraccio, 2012
PART TWO - THE RESISTING BODY
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition. [Including: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika.] New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2014
-Derek Jarman; Howard Sooley, Derek Jarman's Garden, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
- Philadelphia (film, 1993), dir. by Jonathan Demme (to be rent on youtube)
PART THREE - THE FEMALE BODY
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Classics Most Red Series), London, Penguin,1995
- David Greig, Miniskirts of Kabul, in in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
- Naomi Wallace, Such Cold Thing, in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
For each unit, extracts from journalistic and political texts will be included to support the topics covered. The texts will be uploaded as a handout on the course's Ariel website.
OPTIONAL CRITICAL TOOLS
Anna Pasolini, Bodies that Bleed. Matamorphosis in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales (Milano, Ledizioni, 2016).
Luigi Bruti Liberati, STORIA DELL'IMPERO BRITANNICO. 1785-1999 (Milano, Bompiani Paperbacks, 2022)
- M. Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 - any edition, possibly in English)
-J. Winterson, Frankissstein (2019 - any edition, possibly in English)
Critical resources:
- AAVV, Introduzione ai Cultural Studies. UK, USA e paesi anglofoni. Roma, Carocci, 2016 (soltanto la parte prima)
- N. Vallorani, Anticorpi, Milano, Il Libraccio, 2012
PART TWO - THE RESISTING BODY
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition. [Including: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika.] New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2014
-Derek Jarman; Howard Sooley, Derek Jarman's Garden, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
- Philadelphia (film, 1993), dir. by Jonathan Demme (to be rent on youtube)
PART THREE - THE FEMALE BODY
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Classics Most Red Series), London, Penguin,1995
- David Greig, Miniskirts of Kabul, in in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
- Naomi Wallace, Such Cold Thing, in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
For each unit, extracts from journalistic and political texts will be included to support the topics covered. The texts will be uploaded as a handout on the course's Ariel website.
OPTIONAL CRITICAL TOOLS
Anna Pasolini, Bodies that Bleed. Matamorphosis in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales (Milano, Ledizioni, 2016).
Luigi Bruti Liberati, STORIA DELL'IMPERO BRITANNICO. 1785-1999 (Milano, Bompiani Paperbacks, 2022)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will have the opportunity to carry out some in itinere tests and in-depth activities that will be subject to evaluation and on which more specific indications will be given in class. The overall evaluation will be elaborated and communicated at the end of the oral exam.
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Vallorani Nicoletta
E-M
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
In the emergency teaching phase, should it become necessary to use online teaching, the program designed for face-to-face teaching is modified as follows:
Teaching methods:
The lessons will be held in synchronous, trying to enhance interaction (chat and forum), using mainly Teams; only in specific cases and duly communicated, the lessons will be held in asynchronous (videolessons). In case there will be activities in presence (following the indications of the university), students who will not participate will be offered an alternative online activity that will allow them to develop the same critical and text analysis skills.
The timetable of the lessons remains unchanged and all the most important information will be provided through the ARIEL website of the course.
The methods and criteria for attending the lessons in attendance, which require a reservation with the appropriate app, will be published in good time on the ARIEL website of the course.
Reference materials:
The syllabus is ket untouched. For those who decide not to attend the course, we recommend the supporting bibliography.
Testing and grading
The exam is oral and will be conducted, in the case of online teaching, in Microsoft Teams, according to the indications provided by the University. The requirements and methods of evaluation remain the same with respect to the "in presence" program.
Teaching methods:
The lessons will be held in synchronous, trying to enhance interaction (chat and forum), using mainly Teams; only in specific cases and duly communicated, the lessons will be held in asynchronous (videolessons). In case there will be activities in presence (following the indications of the university), students who will not participate will be offered an alternative online activity that will allow them to develop the same critical and text analysis skills.
The timetable of the lessons remains unchanged and all the most important information will be provided through the ARIEL website of the course.
The methods and criteria for attending the lessons in attendance, which require a reservation with the appropriate app, will be published in good time on the ARIEL website of the course.
Reference materials:
The syllabus is ket untouched. For those who decide not to attend the course, we recommend the supporting bibliography.
Testing and grading
The exam is oral and will be conducted, in the case of online teaching, in Microsoft Teams, according to the indications provided by the University. The requirements and methods of evaluation remain the same with respect to the "in presence" program.
Course syllabus
AntiBodies.
Anomalous bodies, representation and integration in UK, US & Anglophone cultures.
In working on cultural mediation, the course focuses on non-normative bodies and integration exploiting the tools of Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field. The thematic hub of the course resides in the issues of diversity and resistance, diversity and integration, anomalous bodies and art.
The course includes a wide variety of texts: novels & plays; memoirs reporting on the experience of exclusion or marginality; works of imagination, by themselves helping to depict the experience of being a dropout, films, documentary films, works of art.
Events involving novelists, actors and playwrights working on this issue are planned within the frame of the course, and will be communicated in advance. A collaboration with Teatro dell'Elfo is also planned. Students - both attending and non-attending - are invited to participate: the initiatives will be part of the final evaluation.
PART 1: The unnatural body
PART 2: The resisting body
PART 3: The female body
Anomalous bodies, representation and integration in UK, US & Anglophone cultures.
In working on cultural mediation, the course focuses on non-normative bodies and integration exploiting the tools of Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field. The thematic hub of the course resides in the issues of diversity and resistance, diversity and integration, anomalous bodies and art.
The course includes a wide variety of texts: novels & plays; memoirs reporting on the experience of exclusion or marginality; works of imagination, by themselves helping to depict the experience of being a dropout, films, documentary films, works of art.
Events involving novelists, actors and playwrights working on this issue are planned within the frame of the course, and will be communicated in advance. A collaboration with Teatro dell'Elfo is also planned. Students - both attending and non-attending - are invited to participate: the initiatives will be part of the final evaluation.
PART 1: The unnatural body
PART 2: The resisting body
PART 3: The female body
Prerequisites for admission
Students must have a general knowledge of the historical context as related to the topics tackled during the course ("knowledge"). In addition, they must be able to understand basic texts in English, both written and visual/aural ones ("understanding"); they must show to possess communicative skills, in English and/or in Italian, so as to render the concepts they want to express comprehensible ("Applied knowledge and comprehension abilities"). Attending students will be given the opportunity to sit one or two mid-terms with internal evaluation ("PASS or FAIL"); final evaluation will be reckoned at the end of the oral exam.
Teaching methods
Lecture-based classes, including some team working and occasional guest speakers and, whenever possible, workshops in small groups, oriented to develop oral skills in particular.
Teaching Resources
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (any edition, preferably in English)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (any edition, preferably in English)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition. [Contains: Millennium Approaches e Perestroika.] New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2014
Derek Jarman; Howard Sooley, Derek Jarman's Garden, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
film: Philadelphia (1993), by Jonathan Demme (available for rental on youtube)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Classics Most Red Series), London, Penguin,1995
David Greig, Miniskirts of Kabul, in in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
Naomi Wallace, Such Cold Thing, in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
For each unit, extracts from journalistic and political texts will be included to support the topics covered. The texts will be uploaded as a handout on the course's Ariel website.
CRITICAL TEXTS:
AAVV, Introduzione ai Cultural Studies. UK, USA e paesi anglofoni. Roma, Carocci, 2016 (only the first part)
N. Vallorani, Anticorpi, Milano, Il Libraccio, 2012
Anna Pasolini, Bodies that Bleed. Matamorphosis in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales, Milano, Ledizioni, 2016
Luigi Bruti Liberati, Storia dell'Impero britannico. 1785-1999 (Milano, Bompiani Paperbacks, 2022)
Life and works of the aforementioned authors (general outline).
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (any edition, preferably in English)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition. [Contains: Millennium Approaches e Perestroika.] New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2014
Derek Jarman; Howard Sooley, Derek Jarman's Garden, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
film: Philadelphia (1993), by Jonathan Demme (available for rental on youtube)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Classics Most Red Series), London, Penguin,1995
David Greig, Miniskirts of Kabul, in in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
Naomi Wallace, Such Cold Thing, in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
For each unit, extracts from journalistic and political texts will be included to support the topics covered. The texts will be uploaded as a handout on the course's Ariel website.
CRITICAL TEXTS:
AAVV, Introduzione ai Cultural Studies. UK, USA e paesi anglofoni. Roma, Carocci, 2016 (only the first part)
N. Vallorani, Anticorpi, Milano, Il Libraccio, 2012
Anna Pasolini, Bodies that Bleed. Matamorphosis in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales, Milano, Ledizioni, 2016
Luigi Bruti Liberati, Storia dell'Impero britannico. 1785-1999 (Milano, Bompiani Paperbacks, 2022)
Life and works of the aforementioned authors (general outline).
Assessment methods and Criteria
Attending students will be given the opportunity to sit for one mid-term with internal evaluation ("PASS or FAIL"); final evaluation will be reckoned at the end of the oral exam.
N-Z
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
In the emergency teaching phase, should it become necessary to use online teaching, the program designed for face-to-face teaching is modified as follows:
Teaching methods:
The lessons will be held in synchronous, trying to enhance interaction (chat and forum), using mainly Teams; only in specific cases and duly communicated, the lessons will be held in asynchronous (videolessons). In case there will be activities in presence (following the indications of the university), students who will not participate will be offered an alternative online activity that will allow them to develop the same critical and text analysis skills.
The timetable of the lessons remains unchanged and all the most important information will be provided through the ARIEL website of the course.
The methods and criteria for attending the lessons in attendance, which require a reservation with the appropriate app, will be published in good time on the ARIEL website of the course.
Reference materials:
The syllabus is ket untouched. For those who decide not to attend the course, we recommend the supporting bibliography.
Testing and grading
The exam is oral and will be conducted, in the case of online teaching, in Microsoft Teams, according to the indications provided by the University. The requirements and methods of evaluation remain the same with respect to the "in presence" program.
Teaching methods:
The lessons will be held in synchronous, trying to enhance interaction (chat and forum), using mainly Teams; only in specific cases and duly communicated, the lessons will be held in asynchronous (videolessons). In case there will be activities in presence (following the indications of the university), students who will not participate will be offered an alternative online activity that will allow them to develop the same critical and text analysis skills.
The timetable of the lessons remains unchanged and all the most important information will be provided through the ARIEL website of the course.
The methods and criteria for attending the lessons in attendance, which require a reservation with the appropriate app, will be published in good time on the ARIEL website of the course.
Reference materials:
The syllabus is ket untouched. For those who decide not to attend the course, we recommend the supporting bibliography.
Testing and grading
The exam is oral and will be conducted, in the case of online teaching, in Microsoft Teams, according to the indications provided by the University. The requirements and methods of evaluation remain the same with respect to the "in presence" program.
Course syllabus
AntiBodies.
Anomalous bodies, representation and integration in UK, US & Anglophone cultures.
In working on cultural mediation, the course focuses on non-normative bodies and integration exploiting the tools of Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field. The thematic hub of the course resides in the issues of diversity and resistance, diversity and integration, anomalous bodies and art.
The course includes a wide variety of texts: novels & plays; memoirs reporting on the experience of exclusion or marginality; works of imagination, by themselves helping to depict the experience of being a dropout, films, documentary films, works of art.
Events involving novelists, actors and playwrights working on this issue are planned within the frame of the course, and will be communicated in advance. A collaboration with Teatro dell'Elfo is also planned. Students - both attending and non-attending - are invited to participate: the initiatives will be part of the final evaluation.
PART 1: The unnatural body
PART 2: The resisting body
PART 3: The female body
Anomalous bodies, representation and integration in UK, US & Anglophone cultures.
In working on cultural mediation, the course focuses on non-normative bodies and integration exploiting the tools of Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field. The thematic hub of the course resides in the issues of diversity and resistance, diversity and integration, anomalous bodies and art.
The course includes a wide variety of texts: novels & plays; memoirs reporting on the experience of exclusion or marginality; works of imagination, by themselves helping to depict the experience of being a dropout, films, documentary films, works of art.
Events involving novelists, actors and playwrights working on this issue are planned within the frame of the course, and will be communicated in advance. A collaboration with Teatro dell'Elfo is also planned. Students - both attending and non-attending - are invited to participate: the initiatives will be part of the final evaluation.
PART 1: The unnatural body
PART 2: The resisting body
PART 3: The female body
Prerequisites for admission
Students must have a general knowledge of the historical context as related to the topics tackled during the course ("knowledge"). In addition, they must be able to understand basic texts in English, both written and visual/aural ones ("understanding"); they must show to possess communicative skills, in English and/or in Italian, so as to render the concepts they want to express comprehensible ("Applied knowledge and comprehension abilities"). Attending students will be given the opportunity to sit one or two mid-terms with internal evaluation ("PASS or FAIL"); final evaluation will be reckoned at the end of the oral exam.
Teaching methods
Lecture-based classes, including some team working and occasional guest speakers and, whenever possible, workshops in small groups, oriented to develop oral skills in particular.
Teaching Resources
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (any edition, preferably in English)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (any edition, preferably in English)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition. [Contains: Millennium Approaches e Perestroika.] New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2014
Derek Jarman; Howard Sooley, Derek Jarman's Garden, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
film: Philadelphia (1993), by Jonathan Demme (available for rental on youtube)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Classics Most Red Series), London, Penguin,1995
David Greig, Miniskirts of Kabul, in in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
Naomi Wallace, Such Cold Thing, in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
CRITICAL TEXTS:
AAVV, Introduzione ai Cultural Studies. UK, USA e paesi anglofoni. Roma, Carocci, 2016 (only the first part)
N. Vallorani, Anticorpi, Milano, Il Libraccio, 2012
Anna Pasolini, Bodies that Bleed. Matamorphosis in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales, Milano, Ledizioni, 2016
Luigi Bruti Liberati, Storia dell'Impero britannico. 1785-1999 (Milano, Bompiani Paperbacks, 2022)
Life and works of the aforementioned authors (general outline).
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (any edition, preferably in English)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition. [Contains: Millennium Approaches e Perestroika.] New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2014
Derek Jarman; Howard Sooley, Derek Jarman's Garden, London, Thames and Hudson, 1995
film: Philadelphia (1993), by Jonathan Demme (available for rental on youtube)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Classics Most Red Series), London, Penguin,1995
David Greig, Miniskirts of Kabul, in in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
Naomi Wallace, Such Cold Thing, in AAVV, Afghanistan. The Great Game (London, Oberon Books, 2009)
CRITICAL TEXTS:
AAVV, Introduzione ai Cultural Studies. UK, USA e paesi anglofoni. Roma, Carocci, 2016 (only the first part)
N. Vallorani, Anticorpi, Milano, Il Libraccio, 2012
Anna Pasolini, Bodies that Bleed. Matamorphosis in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales, Milano, Ledizioni, 2016
Luigi Bruti Liberati, Storia dell'Impero britannico. 1785-1999 (Milano, Bompiani Paperbacks, 2022)
Life and works of the aforementioned authors (general outline).
Assessment methods and Criteria
Attending students will be given the opportunity to sit for one mid-term with internal evaluation ("PASS or FAIL"); final evaluation will be reckoned at the end of the oral exam.
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Professor(s)