CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE

L-LIN/10 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

VALERIA POLOPOLI


Learning Objectives

The course aims to help students develop a critical understanding of Contemporary English Literature and Culture, with particular reference to contemporary Black British novel and use interpretative tools and critical methodologies, according to the method of textual analysis.


Course Structure

Frontal teaching, film viewing, students' presentations.



Detailed Course Content

Foundations:

Knowledge of contemporary English civilisation, literature and culture.

Seminars:

A. Write Black, Write British: from Postcolonial to Black British Literature.

B. Narrating Black Britain: Identity Negotiations in the Contemporary Black British Novel.



Textbook Information

1.Foundations:

- Roberto Bertinetti, Dai Beatles a Blair: la cultura inglese contemporanea, Roma, Carocci, 2001;

- Paolo Bertinetti, English Literature. A short history, Torino, Einaudi, 2000;

- Lilla Crisafulli e Keir Elam (a cura di), Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2009.

- S. Greenglatt, Carol Christ, Catherine Robson, The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ninth Edition, New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.

 

2. Seminars

Testi

A. Write Black, Write British: from Postcolonial to Black British Literature.

B. Narrare la Black Britain: Negoziazioni Identitarie nel Romanzo Black British Contemporaneo,

Students are required to read two of the following books:

Further readings:




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