CULTURE E LETTERATURE ANGLOAMERICANE 2

Knowledge and Understanding: through the course students will gain an adequate knowledge of Anglo-American literature from 1830 to WWI, from the myth of the Frontier to its end, the age of Industrialization and the birth of women writers in its cultural context.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding: through lectures and guided readings, students will be able to approach the main texts of the period 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 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.

Lecures and Seminars

Reading and analysis of both literary and critical texts pertaining to Angloamerican Culture and literature from the mid-19^th century to WW1.

Richard Gray, A History of American Literature, 2^ndedition, BlackwellPublishing, Malden, MA 2004. Capp. 3, 4 e 5

AA.VV. Storia della letteratura americana. Dai canti dei pellerossa a Philip Roth, BUR Rizzoli, Milano 2013. Capp. 3, 4 e 5

Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment : The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890, The Univ. Of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK 1998, passim

The Norton Anthology of American Literature (7th edition), passim