ANGLO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1

Knowledge and Understanding: Through the course students will gain an adequate knowledge of Anglo-American literature from the XVII century to the half of the XIX Century in its cultural context.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding: through lectures and guided readings, students will be able to approach the mai texts of the period by combining their literary knowledge with historical and cultural notions

Making Judgements: thanks to class readings and discussion students will be able to apply independently their skills and knowledge to the reading and comprehension of literary texts.

Communication Skills: Approaching the texts in thjeir original form, students will be able to convey effectively what they have learned during the course through an appropriate theoretical language.

Learning Skills: Students will develop autonomous learning skills through class and lab work. That will improve their approach to learning, and it will be a useful skill in their future jobs.

Lessond and team work

Reading and analysis of both literary and critical texts pertaining Angloamerican culture and literature from its beginning to the first part of XIX century. The birth fo ne founding myths and of the idea of American nation.

Richard Gray, A History of American Literature, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA 2004. Capitoli 1 e 2

AA.VV. Storia della letteratura americana, Dai canti dei pellerossa a Pgilip Roth, BUR Rizzoli, Milano 2013. Capitoli 1 e 2

Tzvetan Todorov, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'altro, Einaudi, Torino 2014

Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th edition. passim