26019 - ENGLISH WOMEN'S LITERATURE - LETTERATURA INGLESE DELLE DONNE

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Lo studente possiede conoscenze approfondite sulla scrittura femminile nella letteratura inglese. Conosce e sa utilizzare le metodologie pratiche per l'analisi e l'interpretazione del testo letterario

Contenuti

Title of the course: English Romantic Women's Theatre and Drama in the Romantic Age
The course will examine the relationship between genre and gender in the Romantic theatre and drama, through the reading and analysis of both plays written for the stage between the end of the eighteenth century and those written at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After an introduction to the Romantic critical and theoretical debate on legitimate and illegitimate theatre, different positions and contributions of such authors as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah More and Joanna Baillie will be analysed. Passages from several plays will be discussed in relation to the different dramatic genres they belong to, with particular attention to the various forms of discourse and languages through which female bodies and identities were staged. What will be also explored is the way in which women playwrights of the romantic period contributed and responded to the political issues of the time and to the gender discourse that was under construction.

In the current academic year, this course is related to other courses within the degree programme that also engage with the macro concepts “Identity, alterity, difference, diversity”.

Testi/Bibliografia

Bibliography

Primary Texts:

Hannah More, Percy (1778)

E. Inchbald The Mogul Tale (1784); The Massacre (1792)

Joanna Baillie, Orra (1812); Witchcraft (1836)

Critical reading:

Lizbeth Goodman, The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance,1998

Catherine B. Burrough, Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance and Society, 1790-1840, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam (eds), Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama: History, Agency, and Performativity, Ashgate, 2010

The Languages of Performance in British Romanticism, ed. by Lilla Maria Crisafulli e Cecilia Pietropoli, Peter Lang, 2008, (some chapters), (Biblioteca di Lingue)

Western Women and Imperialism. Complicity and Resistance ed. by Nepur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, Indiana University Press, 1992.

L. M. Crisafulli and K. Elam (a cura di), Manuale di Letteratura e Cultura Inglese, Bononia University Press, 2009 (some chapters), (Biblioteca di Lingue)

Metodi didattici

The course will be organized on seminar base, encouraging students to participate in class discussion. Presentation and discussion of written essays

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Students will be asked to present papers in class and will be also assessed on the basis of their performance. The final exam will consist in one or two written essays and an oral discussion.

Attendance and class partecipation will also be assessed as the component of the final overall mark.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Audio-visual equipment; Power-Point Projection; texts, photocopies and other documents will be provided during the course.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Lilla Maria Crisafulli