18095 - English Literature

Course contents

"English Literature and the Cinema: From J.Austen's to D.H.Lawrence's and G. Greene's Works”.

The course aims to deal with J.Austen's, D.H.Lawrence's and Graham Greene's Narrative, paying attention both to the themes and motifs and to the stylistic and cinematographicdevices as well as to the various strategies of writing in English: novels, short-stories andscreenplays 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, or the screenplay, The Tenth Man and the Tv version), 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:

JaneAusten;

Novelsand Films: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma.

- D.H.Lawrence:

Novelsand Films: The Raibow, Women in Love, Kangaroo.

-G.Greene:

Novels and Films: The Ministry of Fear, A Gun for Sale, The End of the Affair, The Quiet American, The Comedians, 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 filmThe Fallen Idol (Penguin).

b) Criticism (two):

- L.Rizzà (ed), Jane Austen's Imagery: from the Novels to the Films, with an "Introduction" by B.Battaglia and an "Afterward" by C. Comellini, forthcoming 2013.

- C.Comellini, D.H.Lawrence, A Study on Mutual and Cross Reference and Interferences, Bologna, Clueb, 2009.

- 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 2013.

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

P.Bertinetti e G.Volpi (a cura di), Effetto Greene, Roma, Bulzoni, 1990.

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