TRANSNATIONAL ENGLISH

Knowledge and Understanding: the course of Transnational English will allow students to gain an adequate knowledge of Anglo-American literature from its birth as an independent nation and from its mith of the Frontier, to contemporary transnational literature.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding: through lectures and guided readings, students will be able to approach the main texts of Angloamerican literature, from its beginnings up to nowadays, by combining their literary knowledge with historical and cultural notions.

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

Communication Skills: approaching the texts in their original form, students will be able to convey effectively what they have learned during the course and its side-activities.

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

Lectures, Reading and team work. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

Reading and analysis of both literary and critical texts pertaining to Angloamerican Culture and literature as seen from a transnational perspective

---Guido Fink et alii, Storia della letteratura americana: dai canti dei pellerossa a Philip Roth, Rizzoli, Milano 2013

---The Norton Anthology of American Literature, (voll. C,D,E), New York, 2008

--- Donatella Izzo, Giorgio Mariani (a cura di), America at Large. Americanistica transnazionale e nuova comparatistica, Shake, Milano 2004

--- Cristina Iuli e Paola Loreto, La letteratura degli Stati Uniti. Dal Rinascimento americano ai giorni nostri, Carocci, Roma 2017

---Elisabetta Vezzosi, Mosaico americano. Società e cultura negli USA contemporanei, Carocci, Roma 2005

A detailed reading list will be provided during the course