The course aims at introducing students to the knowledge and the critical appraisal of an outline of English literature in the twentieth century, and it will mainly focus on the development of the novel and its evolving forms of intertextuality and metafictionality, as well as on the question of identity and subjectivity, the urban imagination, its dystopic connotations, race, and gender. D1. Knowledge and understanding:on completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how historical contexts inform the form and content of texts. D2. Applying knowledge and understanding: students should be able to make judgments and to recognize the different stylistic features and cultural contexts, and identify thematic and formal correspondences. They should also be able to assess the relevance of literary criticism to the set texts. D4. Communication skills: students should be able to communicate effectively and competently during the exam, using adequate vocabulary and conceptual tools. D5. Learning skills: at the end of the course, students will have developed critical reading and thinking abilities that are essential to the understanding of any complex cultural text, and have enriched their capacity to work with texts and contexts at an academic level. Students who wish to write an optional paper on a specific topic of the course will have the opportunity to enhance their critical writing skills in preparation for their final paper.

II year English literature exam, II year English language exam.

The course aims at introducing students to the knowledge and the critical appraisal of an outline of English literature in the twentieth century, and it will mainly focus on the development of the novel and its evolving forms of intertextuality and metafictionality, as well as on the question of identity, the urban imagination, its dystopic connotations, race and gender and postcolonialism. On completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how historical contexts inform the formal and thematic features of texts, make judgments and recognize the different stylistic aspects and cultural contexts and identify thematic and formal correspondences. They should also be able to assess the relevance of literary criticism to the set texts. They should be able to communicate effectively and competently during the exam.

PRIMARY SOURCES/ testi di riferimento: J.Joyce, “The Sisters”, “Eveline”, “Clay”, “The Dead”. Dubliners, ed. by J.Johnston, Oxford World Classics. V.WOOLF, Mrs Dalloway ed. by . D.Bradshaw, Oxford UP T.S.Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Burial of the Dead” from The Waste Land/La Terra Desolata, ed. Italiana con testo a fronte, a cura di Alessandro Serpieri, BUR; or: T.S.Eliot, La Terra Devastata, a cura di Carmen Gallo, Il Saggiatore, 2021 (texts and notes available on Moodle/Teams). George Orwell, 1984, Penguin Modern Classics J.RHYS, Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Penguin Modern Classics. J.M.Coetzee, Foe, London: Vintage. I.McEwan, Atonement, London: Vintage. Critical Reading: Ronald Carter and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English - Britain and Ireland. London, Routledge, 2017. (The twentieth century; students are required to have a general knowledge of the context, main authors and literary genres). “Intertextuality”, in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2011. (Moodle) E.Bulson, The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce, Cambridge, CUP, pp. pp. 17-20; 47-62: (Moodle/Ms Teams) D.Bradshaw, Introduction to V.Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Oxford World Classics. (Moodle/Ms Teams) “Postmodernism”, “Postcolonialism”, entries from J.Wolfreys, R.Romath, K.Womack, Key Concepts in Literary Theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2006. (Moodle/Ms Teams) D.Head, “Foe” in The Cambridge Introduction to J.M.Coetzee, Cambridge UP, pp. 60-66. (Moodle/Ms Teams) Nick Bentley “Atonement” in Contemporary British Fiction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2006. pp. 148-159.(Moodle) J.Mullan, “Who's afraid of influence?” Review of I.McEwan’s Atonement. (Moodle)

The course aims at introducing students to the knowledge and the critical appraisal of an outline of English literature in the twentieth century, and it will mainly focus on the development of the novel and its evolving forms of intertextuality and metafictionality, as well as on the question of identity, the urban imagination, its dystopic connotations, race and gender and postcolonialism. On completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how historical contexts inform the formal and thematic features of texts, make judgments and recognize the different stylistic aspects and cultural contexts and identify thematic and formal correspondences. They should also be able to assess the relevance of literary criticism to the set texts. They should be able to communicate effectively and competently during the exam. PRIMARY SOURCES/ testi di riferimento: J.Joyce, “The Sisters”, “Eveline”, “Clay”, “The Dead”. Dubliners, ed. by J.Johnston, Oxford World Classics. V.WOOLF, Mrs Dalloway ed. by . D.Bradshaw, Oxford UP T.S.Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Burial of the Dead” from The Waste Land/La Terra Desolata, ed. Italiana con testo a fronte, a cura di Alessandro Serpieri, BUR; or: T.S.Eliot, La Terra Devastata, a cura di Carmen Gallo, Il Saggiatore, 2021 (texts and notes available on Moodle/Teams). George Orwell, 1984, Penguin Modern Classics J.RHYS, Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Penguin Modern Classics. J.M.Coetzee, Foe, London: Vintage. I.McEwan, Atonement, London: Vintage. Critical Reading: Ronald Carter and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English - Britain and Ireland. London, Routledge, 2017. (The twentieth century; students are required to have a general knowledge of the context, main authors and literary genres). “Intertextuality”, in The Encyclopedia of the Novel, Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2011. (Moodle) E.Bulson, The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce, Cambridge, CUP, pp. pp. 17-20; 47-62: (Moodle/Ms Teams) D.Bradshaw, Introduction to V.Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Oxford World Classics. (Moodle/Ms Teams) “Postmodernism”, “Postcolonialism”, entries from J.Wolfreys, R.Romath, K.Womack, Key Concepts in Literary Theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2006. (Moodle/Ms Teams) D.Head, “Foe” in The Cambridge Introduction to J.M.Coetzee, Cambridge UP, pp. 60-66. (Moodle/Ms Teams) Nick Bentley “Atonement” in Contemporary British Fiction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2006. pp. 148-159.(Moodle) J.Mullan, “Who's afraid of influence?” Review of I.McEwan’s Atonement. (Moodle) Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor at the beginning of the course.

Lectures, textual analysis, close reading. Video clips from film/television and serial adaptations may also be included. Students will be encouraged to attend lessons regularly, ask questions, and offer comments about the texts and the topics that will be dealt with during the course. In compliance with the University of Trieste's latest guidelines, lessons will be recorded on MsTeams in asynchronous units. The teaching materials used during the course, which the student must consult, will be hosted on Moodle and Ms Teams. Further critical references may be provided during the course.

The classes are held in person. Students with special needs (including those with disabilities, workers, athletes, adults, parents, and detainees) who are permanently or temporarily unable to attend classes in person due to particular circumstances, will be allowed to participate remotely upon request to the teacher. The request, for which the student takes full responsibility, should be sent via email to the teacher before the beginning of the course. For information about digital teaching at the university, please visit the following link: [https://www.units.it/studenti/didattica-digitale]

The exam is oral and will last approximately 25 minutes. It consists of a discussion of the topics of the course, with a section devoted to the textual analysis and commentary of relevant passages from the primary sources, and it aims at determining the level of knowledge and competence reached by the students, together with their argumentative and analytical skills. Students will be asked to prove their grounding in the main features and authors of British literary history and to answer questions concerning the main concepts, themes and contexts considered during the course. The grading system ranges from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude. In order to pass the exam, students must answer correctly at least two broad questions that will engage them in discussing texts, authors, themes and cultural contexts. Students who answer correctly only one question will not pass the exam. To earn the highest score (30/30 cum laude), students must answer all the questions very competently, be very fluent in their use of English and of specific vocabulary and demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the texts and contexts of the syllabus, a capacity for textual analysis and contextualization.

Questo insegnamento approfondisce argomenti strettamente connessi a uno o più obiettivi dell’Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite