- Docente: Samuel Porter Whitsitt
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
To know and understand the basic elements which characterize literature in the English language; to be able to identify them in specific literary texts, and to be able to develop independently, at a more advanced level, certain cultural and literary themes which can then be applied to other literary texts.
Course contents
This course is dedicated to the art of reading, or one could also call it the practice of critical reading, or “close reading” of a text -- and the "text" can be a literary work, an advertisement, a film, or an article from a newpaper -- or whatever thing that can be "read." The general idea is that in many if not all texts, and in particular in the literary text (or in a film), there is, in the text, or film itself, a lesson on how to read the text/film that is being read. We want to find, read and learn something from that lesson – which is a lesson that dramatizes our relationship with the text itself.
Readings/Bibliography
The texts we will use in class are short stories and plays, and we
will also watch at least one film. We will read texts by the
following authors: for short stories: Alice Munro, Alice Walker,
Flannery O'Connor, and James Joyce. For plays: Tracy Letts and
David Henry Hwang. For film: I haven't decided yet! I will put on
the bulletin board a week before the beginning of classes, a final
list of authors and texts (which you need to get from, in dispensa
form, from Carta Carbone).
Teaching methods
frontal lectures / class discussion
Assessment methods
Final exam (written; one or more vocabulary tests.
Teaching tools
photocopies / dispensas / film
Links to further information
http://www.ssit.unibo.it/SSLMiT/Avvisi/2010/07/mozione_cdf.htm
Office hours
See the website of Samuel Porter Whitsitt