18095 - English Literature

Course contents

                                    "Stylistic and Cinematographic Devices in Graham Greene's Works”.

   The course aims to deal with Graham Greene's Narrative, paying attention both to the themes and motifs and to the stylistic and cinematographic devices as well as to the various strategies of writing in English: G.Greene's novels, short-stories and  screenplays will be examined in connection with the related films. The students have to read four novels (or three novels and The Third Man both screenplay and film), the screenplay, The Tenth Man and the Tv version (or The Third Man both screenplay and film), and one short-story "The Basement Room" (and the related film The Fallen Idol), plus two essays among those listed in b) and one of methodology listed in c).

Readings/Bibliography

                               a) Texts:

Novels (a choice): Stamboul Train, The Ministry of Fear,  A Gun for Sale, The Power and The Glory, The End of the Affair, Our Man in Havana,  The Quiet American, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul (Penguin)

- screenplays The Tenth Man (Napoli, Loffredo, 2003)and the  related television adaptation (or The Third Man and the related film).

-  short-story, "The Basement Room", and the related screenplay and the film The Fallen Idol (Penguin).

                            b) Criticism (two):

- C.Comellini, Invito alla lettura di Greene, Milano, Mursia, 1996 .

- C.Comellini, Graham Greene: le forme del narrare, Abano Terme, Piovan, 1990.

-C.Comellini, "Introduction" to The Tenth Man, Na, Loffredo, 03.  

                         c) Methodology (one):

- C.Comellini, Strategie di scrittura nell'inglese: il linguaggio in codice, della narrativa e del cinema, i sottesi e il concetto di traduzione (Strategies of Writing in English), Aracne  2009.

- P.Reynolds, Novel Images, London, Routledge, 1993.

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