B5999 - La lingua inglese nel testo letterario

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Docente: Monica Turci
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: L-LIN/12
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Percorso abilitante in (cod. 6331)

    Also valid for Percorso abilitante in (cod. 6184)
    Percorso abilitante in (cod. 6316)
    Percorso abilitante in (cod. 6332)

Learning outcomes

This 10 hour module focuses on the peculiarities of the language of literature. It provides illustrations on the theoretical concepts, practical exercises based on excerpts from literary texts in English as well as some ideas for class activities

Course contents

Theoretical concepts that will be investigated include

foregrounding;

metaphor;

point of view;

deixis;

Text World Theory

Readings/Bibliography

Main text:

Gibbons and Whiteley, Contemporary Stylistics. Language, Cognition, Interpretation (2018)

For the practical part for the class on March 29th:

Murray Les 1992 "Migratory" in Translations from the Natural World. Isabella Press

Kipling Rudyard "My boy jack" https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_jack.htm

Teaching methods

Lectures and group work

Assessment methods

Please, refer to information provided by the tutor of the course

Teaching tools

PPT presentations

Handouts

Office hours

See the website of Monica Turci