- Docente: Jennifer Varney
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Course contents
Course title: Twentieth-century Anglo-American Literature: Meaning in Modernity
The course aims to present the student with an overview of twentieth-century British and American literature. Ranging between fiction, drama and poetry, the course examines themes such as Writing Modernity, Making it New: The rise of the Avant-Garde,Society and the Individual, The Confessional Voice, Sexual/Textual Politics and Postmodern Fictions.
Readings/Bibliography
Required Reading
Writing Modernity
1918 Solid Objects Virginia Woolf
(short story)
Making it New: The rise of the Avant-Garde
1921 The Wasteland T.S. Eliot
(poetry)
Society and the Individual
1949 All My Sons Arthur Miller
(play)
The Confessional Voice
1960 (selection from) To Bedlam and Part Way Back Anne Sexton
(poetry)
Sexual/Textual Politics
1984 Peter and the Wolf Angela Carter
(short story)
Postmodern Fictions
1985 City of Glass Paul Auster
(novella)
Recommended Reading
Texts will be discussed at the beginning of the course
Teaching methods
Students are encouraged to attend all classes. The course will consist of lectures, discussions and group work. Students will be encouraged to develop their interpretative skills with a view to producing highly analytical personal readings of texts.
Assessment methods
The final exam will be written. Further information will be given during the course.
Teaching tools
Photocopies and material available on e-learning site.
Office hours
See the website of Jennifer Varney