- Docente: Keir Douglas Elam
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Course contents
Postgraduate English Literature ourse, 2019-20 (9 cfu)
Green and blue Shakespeare: Ecological approaches to early modern literature and drama
Readings/Bibliography
Primary texts
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
The Winter’s Tale
Other texts will be available online in the University web page concerning this course.
Secondary texts
Gabriel Egan, Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Dan Brayton, Shakespeare’s Ocean : An Ecocritical Exploration. University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Other critical and historical material will be available online in the University web page concerning this course.
Teaching methods
Lectures; reading of primary and secondary texts; class discussions including student presentations; viewing of video and digital material.
Assessment methods
Essay and oral exam
Teaching tools
Video and digital material.
Office hours
See the website of Keir Douglas Elam