English Literature 1
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
English literature 1 is the first of three foundation modules in English literature for students enrolled in the 3-year BA in Foreign languages and literatures. The course, divided into three parts, focuses on the period between the Glorious Revolution and 1870s, and teaches students to contextualize and critically analyze literary texts (prose and poetry).
Expected learning outcomes
- Read and understand literary texts in their linguistic aspects
- Place literary texts within their historical and cultural context
- Establish connections between literary works
- Analyze poetry in its thematic and formal aspects using the relevant metalanguage
- Analyze fiction in its thematic and formal aspects using the relevant metalanguage
- Use literary essays to engage in the critical reading of texts
- Place literary texts within their historical and cultural context
- Establish connections between literary works
- Analyze poetry in its thematic and formal aspects using the relevant metalanguage
- Analyze fiction in its thematic and formal aspects using the relevant metalanguage
- Use literary essays to engage in the critical reading of texts
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 (A-K)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Most primary and secondary texts can be freely downloaded from the internet. Some of them will be available on the course website.
Students who cannot possibly attend the course are strongly recommended to read the novels in the Norton Critical Editions, when available, while those who attend the course may choose any available edition, including eBooks. Experience shows that eBooks do not work well with poetry. All texts must be studied in English.
Syllabus for attending Students
Unit A
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, OUP, 2nd edition. Only the parts connected with the programme, excluding the close reading of works that are not part of the syllabus (online in the university digital library).
Fludernik, Monika. Narratology. From Encyclopaedia of the Novel. (Literature Online)*
Andrew Hodgson, The Cambridge Guide to Poetry, Cambridge University Press (online in the university digital library).
Unit B
- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, any edition.
- William Hogarth. "The Harlot's Progress", "Gin Lane".
- William Blake, "The Lamb", "The Tyger", "The Chimney Sweeper", "Holy Thursday", "The Rose", "London".
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan", "Frost at Midnight".
- William Wordsworth, "The solitary Reaper", "Michael", "Three Years she Grew", "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal", "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey".
- John Keats, "Ode to Autumn", "Ode to a NIghtingale".
- John Clare, "The Nightingale's Nest", "Remembrances", "The Fallen Elm".
Unit C
- George Gordon Byron, "Darkness".
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Norton Critical Edition mandatory for non-attending students, Penguin or OUP Critical Edition.
- Percy B. Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy", "Ozymandias", "On a Faded Violet", "Song to the Men of England"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins's, "God's Grandeur", "The Windhover", "Binsey Poplars".
- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
- Alfred Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott", "Break Break, Break"
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Norton Critical Edition mandatory for non-attending, Penguin or OUP Critical Edition.
All students must read one novel from each of the following couples.
1. Eighteenth Century
· Samuel Richardson, Pamela, any edition.
· Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
2. Romantic Novels
· Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
· Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3. High Victorian Novels
Mrs Gaskell, North and South
W. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Non-attending students
Students who cannot attend the course will also study the following aid material (which can be downloaded starting from the library website www.sba.unimi.it/BibliotecaDigitale/46.html)
Unit A
Non-attending students
Students who cannot attend the course will also study the following aid material (which can be downloaded starting from the library website www.sba.unimi.it/BibliotecaDigitale/46.html)
Tom Furniss and Michael Bath, "Rhythm and Metre", "The Poetry of the Earth", in Reading Poetry, Routledge.
Greg Garrard, "Positions", in Ecocriticism, Routledge.
Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English: An Introduction. Routledge, 2nd edition. Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12.
The Rape of the Lock from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.).
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, "The Lady of Shalott"" and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2005.
Unit B
The Rape of the Lock from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.).
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, "The Lady of Shalott"" and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2005.
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Course Website
All students are supposed to check on the Ariel online platform (http://ariel.unimi.it) regularly as new material will be uploaded during the course. The website also contains general information on the course. The course also has a dedicated team in MS Teams, which can be reached through the code r0fsnii
Please do not use email to ask for information that may be found elsewhere (Unimi.it, www.lingue.unimi.it, https://www.unimi.it/it/chi-e-dove)
Students who cannot possibly attend the course are strongly recommended to read the novels in the Norton Critical Editions, when available, while those who attend the course may choose any available edition, including eBooks. Experience shows that eBooks do not work well with poetry. All texts must be studied in English.
Syllabus for attending Students
Unit A
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, OUP, 2nd edition. Only the parts connected with the programme, excluding the close reading of works that are not part of the syllabus (online in the university digital library).
Fludernik, Monika. Narratology. From Encyclopaedia of the Novel. (Literature Online)*
Andrew Hodgson, The Cambridge Guide to Poetry, Cambridge University Press (online in the university digital library).
Unit B
- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, any edition.
- William Hogarth. "The Harlot's Progress", "Gin Lane".
- William Blake, "The Lamb", "The Tyger", "The Chimney Sweeper", "Holy Thursday", "The Rose", "London".
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan", "Frost at Midnight".
- William Wordsworth, "The solitary Reaper", "Michael", "Three Years she Grew", "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal", "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey".
- John Keats, "Ode to Autumn", "Ode to a NIghtingale".
- John Clare, "The Nightingale's Nest", "Remembrances", "The Fallen Elm".
Unit C
- George Gordon Byron, "Darkness".
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Norton Critical Edition mandatory for non-attending students, Penguin or OUP Critical Edition.
- Percy B. Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy", "Ozymandias", "On a Faded Violet", "Song to the Men of England"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins's, "God's Grandeur", "The Windhover", "Binsey Poplars".
- Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
- Alfred Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott", "Break Break, Break"
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Norton Critical Edition mandatory for non-attending, Penguin or OUP Critical Edition.
All students must read one novel from each of the following couples.
1. Eighteenth Century
· Samuel Richardson, Pamela, any edition.
· Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
2. Romantic Novels
· Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
· Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3. High Victorian Novels
Mrs Gaskell, North and South
W. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Non-attending students
Students who cannot attend the course will also study the following aid material (which can be downloaded starting from the library website www.sba.unimi.it/BibliotecaDigitale/46.html)
Unit A
Non-attending students
Students who cannot attend the course will also study the following aid material (which can be downloaded starting from the library website www.sba.unimi.it/BibliotecaDigitale/46.html)
Tom Furniss and Michael Bath, "Rhythm and Metre", "The Poetry of the Earth", in Reading Poetry, Routledge.
Greg Garrard, "Positions", in Ecocriticism, Routledge.
Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English: An Introduction. Routledge, 2nd edition. Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12.
The Rape of the Lock from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.).
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, "The Lady of Shalott"" and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2005.
Unit B
The Rape of the Lock from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.).
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, "The Lady of Shalott"" and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2005.
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Course Website
All students are supposed to check on the Ariel online platform (http://ariel.unimi.it) regularly as new material will be uploaded during the course. The website also contains general information on the course. The course also has a dedicated team in MS Teams, which can be reached through the code r0fsnii
Please do not use email to ask for information that may be found elsewhere (Unimi.it, www.lingue.unimi.it, https://www.unimi.it/it/chi-e-dove)
Prerequisites for admission
The course is held entirely in English. The primary and secondary bibliography presuppose a knowledge of English at an intermediate level.
Teaching methods
The course adopts the following teaching methods: lectures with close reading, analysis and contextualisation of works from the reading list; whenever possible, both scenes from visual material (like films and performances) and poetry reading/singing will be used in class; constant involvement of students in the analytical and critical process of learning. If possible, some online drills will be organised during the semester.
Teaching Resources
Non-attending students
Students who cannot attended the course will study also the following aid material (which can be downloaded starting from the library website www.sba.unimi.it/BibliotecaDigitale/46.html)
Tom Furniss and Michael Bath, "Rhythm and Metre", "The Poetry of the Earth", in Reading Poetry, Routledge.
Greg Garrard, "Positions", in Ecocriticism, Routledge.
Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English: AN Introduction. Routledge, 2nd edition. Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12.
The Rape of the Lock from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.).
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, "The Lady of Shalott"" and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2005.
All students are supposed to check on the Ariel online platform (http://ariel.unimi.it) regularly as new material will be uploaded during the course. The website also contains general information on the course.
Please do not use email to ask for information that may be found elsewhere (Unimi.it, www.lingue.unimi.it, https://www.unimi.it/it/chi-e-dove)
Students who cannot attended the course will study also the following aid material (which can be downloaded starting from the library website www.sba.unimi.it/BibliotecaDigitale/46.html)
Tom Furniss and Michael Bath, "Rhythm and Metre", "The Poetry of the Earth", in Reading Poetry, Routledge.
Greg Garrard, "Positions", in Ecocriticism, Routledge.
Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English: AN Introduction. Routledge, 2nd edition. Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12.
The Rape of the Lock from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.).
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, "The Lady of Shalott"" and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2005.
All students are supposed to check on the Ariel online platform (http://ariel.unimi.it) regularly as new material will be uploaded during the course. The website also contains general information on the course.
Please do not use email to ask for information that may be found elsewhere (Unimi.it, www.lingue.unimi.it, https://www.unimi.it/it/chi-e-dove)
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists in an oral test assessed in thirtieths. The pass score is eighteen. The test, which consists in an interview, will ascertain the understanding of literary texts (through reading and translation or paraphrase), the knowledge of literary history (news on the authors, historical and cultural contexts), and critical abilities. Linguistic precision and connections between the texts will also be part of the assessment.
The final score is expressed in thirtieths; students may accept or reject the mark - in this case it will be recorded as "ritirato" (withdrawn) and they will have to take the whole exam again in the future.
Students with any disabilities are kindly requested to contact the teacher to agree on alternative examination methods, according to the current legislation.
In order to take the exam, it is mandatory to bring along all the literary texts.
When registering for the exam, students are required to enlist under the teacher's name, especially when taking the exam after more than one year from the end of the course.
The present syllabus expires after February 2024.
The final score is expressed in thirtieths; students may accept or reject the mark - in this case it will be recorded as "ritirato" (withdrawn) and they will have to take the whole exam again in the future.
Students with any disabilities are kindly requested to contact the teacher to agree on alternative examination methods, according to the current legislation.
In order to take the exam, it is mandatory to bring along all the literary texts.
When registering for the exam, students are required to enlist under the teacher's name, especially when taking the exam after more than one year from the end of the course.
The present syllabus expires after February 2024.
L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Vescovi Alessandro
B (L-Z)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Ways of reading English literature: poetry and fiction
The first two parts of the course (A and B) aim to introduce students to the critical reading of literature and of some relevant aspects of British culture in the period 1689-1870, i.e., during the rapid expansion of the modern English monarchy. The eighteenth and nineteenth century saw the emergence and development of forms and genres that have since then characterised British literature (and culture, more in general), the legacy of which is still visible today.
Part C will be dedicated to a module entitled The female Bildungsroman: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
This course bears 9 CFU and it is not possible to acquire 6 CFU only. The present syllabus expires after February 2024.
The first two parts of the course (A and B) aim to introduce students to the critical reading of literature and of some relevant aspects of British culture in the period 1689-1870, i.e., during the rapid expansion of the modern English monarchy. The eighteenth and nineteenth century saw the emergence and development of forms and genres that have since then characterised British literature (and culture, more in general), the legacy of which is still visible today.
Part C will be dedicated to a module entitled The female Bildungsroman: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
This course bears 9 CFU and it is not possible to acquire 6 CFU only. The present syllabus expires after February 2024.
Prerequisites for admission
The course is held entirely in English. The primary and secondary bibliography presuppose a knowledge of English at intermediate level.
Teaching methods
Each course week students shall attend a lecture on a specific aspect of British literature and two lectures dedicated to the analysis of relevant literary texts, with some spotlights on British art and cinema. Texts will be analysed making use of metrical (poetry) and narratological (fiction) tools. The course convenor will organise collective viewings of films outside the course timetable.
A detailed class schedule will be published on the Ariel website.
A detailed class schedule will be published on the Ariel website.
Teaching Resources
Books on the syllabus are of three kinds:
- Books common to all the parts of the course, necessary for the study of literary history and to develop reading skills with particular reference to poetry and fiction, as well as critical reading skills;
- Primary literature: poems and novels (in some cases essays) that will be analysed in class;
- Secondary literature: critical essays for the critical interpretation of primary literature.
Syllabus for attending students
Text common to all the parts of the course
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 (available in electronic format in the University Library), capp. 3,4 e 5.
Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Tom Furniss and Sara Mills, Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature, 4th ed., Routledge, London 2013.
Marco Canani, Francesca Chiappini e Sara Sullam, Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese, Carocci, Roma 2017, chapters. 3 e 4.
Where not specifically indicated, primary texts for Parts A and B will be made available on the Ariel platform.
Part A
Primary literature:
Daniel Defoe, preface to Moll Flanders
Samuel Richardson, preface to Pamela
Henry Fielding, preface to Tom Jones
Fanny Burney, preface to Evelina
Alexander Pope, selected passages from An Essay on Criticism
William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Elizabeth Gaskell, selected passages from North and South
Jane Austen, selected passages from Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, selected passages from The Cry of the Children
William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey Tintern Abbey
Mary Wollsotonecraft, selected passages from A Vindication of the Rights of Women
P.B. Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy, England in 1819
Alexander Pope, Essay on criticism, passi scelti da The Rape of the Lock
John Keats, On seeing the Elgin marble
Alfred Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott"
Part B
Primary literature:
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, Oxford World Classics
Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Oxford World Classics
William Blake, London, The Chimney Sweeper (in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; available on Ariel)
William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Secondary literature:
Sara Sullam, Moll Flanders. Matrici, Mimesis, Milano 2018, ch. 1, 2, 3
M.T. Chialant, Bleak House. Ragnate, Mimesis, Milano 2021, ch. 2, 3, 4, 5
Students are requested to buy the suggested editions. Reference to them will be made during in class- discussions.
Part C
Primary literarure;
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, ed. Ros Ballaster, Penguin, London 2003.
Secondary literature:
Chapters 1, 2, 11, 12, 13 from The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (University library)
Franco Moretti, selected passages from The Way of the World, Verso, London 2000 (University library)
Liliana Rampello, Sei romanzi perfetti, il Saggiatore, Milano, chapters 1 and 2 (University library)
All students must read one novel from each of the following couples. For these texts there is no suggested edition.
1. Eighteenth Century
· Samuel Richardson, Pamela
· Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
2. Romantic Novels
· Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
· Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3. High Victorian Novels
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
W. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Syllabus for non-attending students
English literature 1 is a core module and attendance is highly recommended. Non-attending students are requested to contact the course convenor before the course start.
Extra readings for non-attending students is listed below (
Riccardo Capoferro, Novel, Carocci, Roma 2017, capp. 1 e 2 (Biblioteca)
Steve Curran, Romantic poetry Why and Wherefore?, in Id. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Cambridge University Press, pp. 209-228 (sito Ariel)
Caroline Patey, Introduction, in Enduring Presence: William Hogarth's British and European Afterlife, book 1, Peter Lang, Oxford 2021, pp. 1-22 (sito Ariel)
Francesca Orestano, da Paesaggio e finzione, Unicopli, Milano 2000, pp. 121-29 e 165-192 (Biblioteca).
Da Marco Canani, Ellenismi britannici, Aracne, Lanuvio 2014 (sito Ariel).
"The Rape of the Lock" from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.). (Biblioteca digitale di Ateneo)
Kathy Alexis Psomiades, "'The Lady of Shalott' and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry" in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York: 2005 (Ariel)
Sara Sullam, Moll Flanders. Matrici, Mimesis, Milano 2018 (University digital library)
Maria Teresa Chialant, Bleak House. Ragnatele, Mimesis, Milano 2021 (University digital library)
Course Website
All students are supposed to check on the Ariel online platform (http://ariel.unimi.it) regularly as new material will be uploaded during the course. The website also contains general information on the course.
Please do not use email to ask for information that may be found elsewhere (Unimi.it, www.lingue.unimi.it, https://www.unimi.it/it/chi-e-dove)
- Books common to all the parts of the course, necessary for the study of literary history and to develop reading skills with particular reference to poetry and fiction, as well as critical reading skills;
- Primary literature: poems and novels (in some cases essays) that will be analysed in class;
- Secondary literature: critical essays for the critical interpretation of primary literature.
Syllabus for attending students
Text common to all the parts of the course
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017 (available in electronic format in the University Library), capp. 3,4 e 5.
Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Tom Furniss and Sara Mills, Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature, 4th ed., Routledge, London 2013.
Marco Canani, Francesca Chiappini e Sara Sullam, Introduzione allo studio della letteratura inglese, Carocci, Roma 2017, chapters. 3 e 4.
Where not specifically indicated, primary texts for Parts A and B will be made available on the Ariel platform.
Part A
Primary literature:
Daniel Defoe, preface to Moll Flanders
Samuel Richardson, preface to Pamela
Henry Fielding, preface to Tom Jones
Fanny Burney, preface to Evelina
Alexander Pope, selected passages from An Essay on Criticism
William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Elizabeth Gaskell, selected passages from North and South
Jane Austen, selected passages from Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, selected passages from The Cry of the Children
William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey Tintern Abbey
Mary Wollsotonecraft, selected passages from A Vindication of the Rights of Women
P.B. Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy, England in 1819
Alexander Pope, Essay on criticism, passi scelti da The Rape of the Lock
John Keats, On seeing the Elgin marble
Alfred Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott"
Part B
Primary literature:
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, Oxford World Classics
Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Oxford World Classics
William Blake, London, The Chimney Sweeper (in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; available on Ariel)
William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Secondary literature:
Sara Sullam, Moll Flanders. Matrici, Mimesis, Milano 2018, ch. 1, 2, 3
M.T. Chialant, Bleak House. Ragnate, Mimesis, Milano 2021, ch. 2, 3, 4, 5
Students are requested to buy the suggested editions. Reference to them will be made during in class- discussions.
Part C
Primary literarure;
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, ed. Ros Ballaster, Penguin, London 2003.
Secondary literature:
Chapters 1, 2, 11, 12, 13 from The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (University library)
Franco Moretti, selected passages from The Way of the World, Verso, London 2000 (University library)
Liliana Rampello, Sei romanzi perfetti, il Saggiatore, Milano, chapters 1 and 2 (University library)
All students must read one novel from each of the following couples. For these texts there is no suggested edition.
1. Eighteenth Century
· Samuel Richardson, Pamela
· Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
2. Romantic Novels
· Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
· Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3. High Victorian Novels
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
W. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Syllabus for non-attending students
English literature 1 is a core module and attendance is highly recommended. Non-attending students are requested to contact the course convenor before the course start.
Extra readings for non-attending students is listed below (
Riccardo Capoferro, Novel, Carocci, Roma 2017, capp. 1 e 2 (Biblioteca)
Steve Curran, Romantic poetry Why and Wherefore?, in Id. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Cambridge University Press, pp. 209-228 (sito Ariel)
Caroline Patey, Introduction, in Enduring Presence: William Hogarth's British and European Afterlife, book 1, Peter Lang, Oxford 2021, pp. 1-22 (sito Ariel)
Francesca Orestano, da Paesaggio e finzione, Unicopli, Milano 2000, pp. 121-29 e 165-192 (Biblioteca).
Da Marco Canani, Ellenismi britannici, Aracne, Lanuvio 2014 (sito Ariel).
"The Rape of the Lock" from KnowledgeNotes™ Student Guides Shute, Sarah (Gen. Ed.). (Biblioteca digitale di Ateneo)
Kathy Alexis Psomiades, "'The Lady of Shalott' and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry" in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York: 2005 (Ariel)
Sara Sullam, Moll Flanders. Matrici, Mimesis, Milano 2018 (University digital library)
Maria Teresa Chialant, Bleak House. Ragnatele, Mimesis, Milano 2021 (University digital library)
Course Website
All students are supposed to check on the Ariel online platform (http://ariel.unimi.it) regularly as new material will be uploaded during the course. The website also contains general information on the course.
Please do not use email to ask for information that may be found elsewhere (Unimi.it, www.lingue.unimi.it, https://www.unimi.it/it/chi-e-dove)
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists in an oral test assessed in thirtieths. The pass score is eighteen. The test, which consists in an interview, will ascertain the understanding of literary texts (through reading and translation or paraphrase), analytic skills as well as the knowledge of literary history (historical and cultural contexts), and critical abilities. Linguistic accuracy and connections between the texts will also be part of the assessment.
It is possible to sit the exam both in Italian and English.
The final score is expressed in thirtieths; students may accept or reject the mark - in this case it will be recorded as "ritirato" (withdrawn) and they will have to take the whole exam again in the future.
Students with any disabilities are kindly requested to contact the teacher to agree on alternative examination methods, according to the current legislation.
In order to take the exam, it is mandatory to bring along all the literary texts.
When registering for the exam, students are required to enlist under the teacher's name, especially when taking the exam after more than one year from the end of the course.
The present syllabus expires after February 2024.
It is possible to sit the exam both in Italian and English.
The final score is expressed in thirtieths; students may accept or reject the mark - in this case it will be recorded as "ritirato" (withdrawn) and they will have to take the whole exam again in the future.
Students with any disabilities are kindly requested to contact the teacher to agree on alternative examination methods, according to the current legislation.
In order to take the exam, it is mandatory to bring along all the literary texts.
When registering for the exam, students are required to enlist under the teacher's name, especially when taking the exam after more than one year from the end of the course.
The present syllabus expires after February 2024.
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