- Docente: Gino Scatasta
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND COMMUNICATION (cod. 0982)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Course contents
The Swinging Sixties
The 1960s was a decade of great social and political upheavals in the United Kingdom. How did they influence and were influencedby the literature of the decade? We will look for an answer to this question in some novels and plays of the Sixties, in the context of the history, films, music and youth subcultures of the period.
Readings/Bibliography
Students are required to read five novels from the following list:
Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)
Ian Fleming, Goldfinger(1959)
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Angus Wilson, The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
James G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962)
John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Nell Dunn, Poor Cow(1967)
Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop (1967)
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Roberto Bertinetti, Dai Beatles a Blair: la cultura inglese contemporanea, capp. 1, 2, 3, Roma, Caroccci, 2001, pp. 7-61 (F)
Paola Colaiacomo e Vittoria C. Caratozzolo, “Transiti”, in La londra dei Beatles, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1996, pp. 9-71 (F)
Malcolm Bradbury, “Crossroads: Fiction in the Sixties”, in The Modern British Novel, London, Penguin, 1994, pp. 361-415 (F)
David Lodge, “The Novelist at the Crossroad”, in The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism, London, Ark, 1971, pp. 3-34 (F)
Ian MacDonald, “I leggendari quattro. L'illusione di un decennio”, in The Beatles. L'opera completa, Milano, Mondadori, 1997, pp. 9-48 (F)
Further material on the single works or on the Sixties in general will be available from Ecrire or Master Copy in via Cartoleria.
Assessment methods
Oral examination at the end of the course. The oral exam or part of
it could be substituted by an essay.
Office hours
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