AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to familiarize students with major trends of American culture and with important works in different genres (fiction, essay, drama, poetry, film). Students will learn how to analyze such works competently from a historical and generic perspective.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the completion of the course the student

- will have become familiar with major American historical and cultural developments, and with some major American writers and texts of the xxth century;

- will be able to interpret these developments in English and Italian with reference to  , poetry, art, fiction, music and literary theory;

- will be able to contextualize and analyze texts and documents of notable complexity and historical significance and describe their cultural and linguistic peculiarities.

TEACHING METHODS

The course will take place in the second semester 2019/2020, 6CFU

Students are invited to enroll in Aulaweb, where learning material, links, documents, news, etc. will be available.

The course is composed of lectures as well as seminars. The latter will involve the active participation of students, who can engage in individual and/or group research and presentations.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course will focus on the revolutionary and innovative trend of the Sixties and Seventies in Great Britain and in USA. These decades are characterized by a deep synergy between the arts and by a particularly creative interaction between Old and New Continent, in all fields of knowledge and culture, involving arts, music, literature, critical theory, fashion.

A particular attention will be devoted to the Beat Generation and to the extraordinary role of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore. Another part of the course will focus on the anglo-american poet Thom Gunn, who, in the Fifties, in spite of his success in England, moved to the United States. San Francisco became his new home and homeland; he liked to call himself “an Anglo-American Poet”.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A collection of texts edited by Stefania Michelucci will be availiable at Copisteria Copycolor, Via Balbi (near Stazione Principe) before the beginning of the course (February 2020).

Further material will be available in aulaweb during the course.

For non attending students a Reading List with critical texts will be posted in Aulaweb in March 2020.

All students (attending and non-attending) are expected to know the history of American Literature of the xxth century. A list of reccommended texts will be available in aulaweb.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

STEFANIA MICHELUCCI (President)

MASSIMO BACIGALUPO

ANNA SBORGI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester, February 2020, the precise date will be posted in aulaweb at the end of January 2020.

Class schedule

ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

All students who will engage in an individual and/or group presentation will receive a note (good, excellent, etc.) and will have to answer only to two questions out of three in the exam.

The exam will be a written exam (3 open questions, involving the analysis of themes, and/or texts). Attending students have the opportunity to take the exam orally till July 2020.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students will be asked to prepare presentations in the course of the semester.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

The course is in English, three hourts per week in two session s of 2+1 hour. A fair knowledge of U.S. culture and literature is a porerìquisite. Erasmus students are welcome.