30811 - STORIA DELLA CULTURA INGLESE (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Lo studente possiede conoscenze approfondite sulla storia culturale, politica, filosofica, religiosa, socio-economica della civiltà inglese. Possiede elevate capacità di comprensione e di analisi critica delle specificità culturali dell'area studiata. E' in grado di elaborare analisi complesse e di formulare riflessioni autonome su tematiche di ricerca specifiche

Contenuti

Title: To write to bear witness: the war experience in English and European Literature (1900-1960s).

 

The course will be in Blended E-LEARNING

The preliminary meeting of the course with the presentation of materials, tutor and modalities of the exam will be on Wednesday 3rd March 2010, at 12:00, in Via Filippo Re, Department of Foreign Languages, Lab H.

 

The course offers an interdisciplinary discussion concerning differences and/or similarities between memories and representations of WW1 and WW2 in relation to the existence of conflicting memories within national boundaries.

 

The course is structured in 5 modules, which means that every week, for 5 weeks, students will have access to a new module, which they will have to work on, and that module will be the topic of the weekly forum discussion. The topics of the modules are the following:

 

Module 1

War Rhetoric

 

Module 2

War and New Technologies

 

Module 3

Artists, Writers and the War Experience

 

Module 4

War and Illness

 

Module 5

War and new perceptions of space & time

Testi/Bibliografia

Primary Sources:

Students will have to read at least 3 of the following novels :

 

    * Aldington, Richard, The Death of a Hero (1929)

    * Barbusse, Henry, Il fuoco (1916)

    * Bowen, Elizabeth, The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945)

    * Calvino, Italo, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (1946)

    * Dorgelès, Roland, Le croci di legno (1919)

    * Dos Passos, John, Three Soldiers (1921)

    * e.e. cummings, The Enormous Room (1922)

    * Fenoglio, Beppe, Il partigiano Johnny (1968)

    * Ford, Madox Ford, Parade's End (1924-1928)

    * Grass, Günter, Il mio secolo, (2002)

    * Graves, Robert, Goodbye to all that (1929)

    * Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 (1961)

    * Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell To Arms (1929)

    * Hemingway, Ernest, In Our Time (1925)

    * Jünger, Ernest, Nelle tempeste d'acciaio (1920)

    * Levi, Primo, Se questo è un uomo (1947)

    * Lewis, Wyndham, Blasting and Bombardiering (1937)

    * Lussu, Emilio, Un anno sull'altopiano (1938)

    * Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead (1948)

    * Remarque, Erich Maria, Nulla di nuovo sul fronte occidentale, (1929)

    * Silkin, Jon (ed. by), The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, London, 1979

    * Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughter House-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

    * Waugh, Evelyn, Sword of Honour Trilogy (1965) [uno dei volumi a scelta]

 

 

 

Secondary Sources:

 

 

Students will have to use at least three critical texts relative to the novels chosen in order to write their paper and to discuss both it and the novels chosen, when they take the oral exam.

 

    * Aldridge, John, After Lost Generation: a Critical Study of the Writers of two Wars (1959)

    * Børch, Marianne (ed. by), Narratives of Remebrances (2001)

    * Calzoni, Raul, Walter Kempowski, W.G. Sebald e i tabù della memoria collettiva tedesca (2005)

    * Cardinal, Agnes (ed.), Women's Writing on the First World War (1999)

    * Cobley, Evelyne, Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives (1996)

    * Cooperman, Stanley, World War I and the American Novel (1970)

    * Flores, Marcello, Il secolo-mondo storia del novecento (2002)

    * Fussel, Paul , The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)

    * Hynes, Samuel, A War Imagined: the First World War and English Culture (1992)

    * Limon, John, Writing after War. American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism (1994)

    * Leed, Eric J, No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War I (1979)

        * Macmillan MargaretParis 1919 (2003)

    * Mosse, George, Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of World War (1990)

* Pick Daniel, War Machine, the Rationalisation of Slaughter in Modern Age (1993)

* Riegel, Léon, Guerre et Littérature (1978)

    * Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

    * Trade, Trudi, Modernism, History and the First World War (1995)

    * Winter Jay, Sites of Memory, Site of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (2000)

 

Metodi didattici

The course will be in Blended E-LEARNING

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

PRELIMINARY MEETING OF STUDENTS, TUTOR AND PROFESSOR FORTUNATI: WEDNESDAY 3rd of March

 

The course will start on 3rd of March and will last 5 weeks

 

EVALUATION AND EXAM

 

By 15th of April 2010: students will have to have participated at least once a week to the discussion on the forum. The weekly topic of the forum will be posted every Tuesday morning, so that the students will have the whole week to participate to the discussion, until the next topic will be introduced. The theme of the discussion will be one of the aspects or themes of the weekly module. The weekly participation to the forum is compulsory. Those not participating to the forum cannot submit papers and take the exam.

 

 

By Monday 31st of May: students will have to submit a paper (tesina) in English at least 15 pages long (not including bibliography) (Font: Times new roman, 12) to Prof. Vita Fortunati (to be left at her office during office hours or to be left at the “portineria” at her attention (in this case please specify name, matricola, email and telephone number).

 

The marks of the paper will be posted on the website of the e-learning course and outside Prof. Fortunati's office.

The date for the written exam will be on the 12th May 2010.

The written exam will be about the novels read by the students and the secondary sources related to the novels chosen, together with questions concerning the 5 teaching modules.

 

Weekly feedback: in order to prepare the “tesina” students are warmly suggested to post ideas for their paper, bibliography, drafts, and short essays that will be part of their paper on the website of the course, in the specific area dedicated to the uploading of students' works. This is not compulsory, students may decide to submit the paper at the end of the 5 modules, no later than Monday, the 31st of May 2010.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

For each module the student will have .pdf essays, videos and mp3s lessons in streaming, downloadable directly form the website, by clicking the relative link. A selection of hardback material will be kept in a special section in the Faculty Library, under the name “professor Fortunati E-learning module – Cultura inglese”.

In this way, all students will have access to the materials and the recommended reading material.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Vita Fortunati