To find and/or create continuities with the skills acquired at school or in the first year of university

To acquire specific lexicon

To understand the Anglo-American historical and literary identity  critically, through the study of macro-areas, themes, and genres, in a both chronological and thematic perspective

The course offers a general survey of the history of Anglo-American literature and focusses on its main movements, authors, and genres. The texts will be studied in context. In particular, we shall concentrate on crime fiction, from its birth (with E. A. Poe) to the more recent hard-boiled fiction, true crime, and cyber fiction. Rex Stout will receive specific attention owing to the relations between detection and food. The relationship with cinema will be underlined and analyzed.

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To be familiar with libraries and web research

To recognize the literary text as an arena of negotiation between the past and the present 

To acquire critical instruments of analysis

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

discussions, films, web, conferences

Teaching

lectures (attendaance 70%)

Attendance

study/read/watch all the material

Course books

History of literature (First year: '600-'800, second year: 900-today)

Guido Fink et altri, Storia della letteratura americana

or

http://beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn/uploads/images/HgvMMY8lezLAI9A1tuVIhg/outline_of_american_literature.pdf

or

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/American_literature.aspx

History (First year: '600-'800, second year: '900-today)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/US_History

or

http://www.ait.org.tw/infousa/zhtw/DOCS/historytln.pdf

Readings:

First year (‘600- ‘800):

Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (excerpts), Bradstreet ("The Flesh and the Spirit"), Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter), Melville (Moby Dick), Emerson ("Nature"), Poe ("The Black Cat"), Whitman ("Song of Myself", first 100 lines), Dickinson (some poems), James ("The Beast in the Jungle")

 Second year (900-today)

Ginsberg ("Howl"), Frost ("Mending Wall"), Malamud ("The Magic Barrel"), L. M. Silko (Lullaby), S. Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

a Volo di ritorno (ed. M.G.Fabi, Le Lettere), La vittima di S.Bellow (ed. A.Calanchi, Mondadori)

Texts (for everybody):

Alessandra Calanchi (ed), Arcobaleno noir. Le nuove cittadinanze del noir fra cinema e letteratura (Galaad Edizioni, Giulianova 2014)

Francesca Secci, Non solo Nero Wolfe. Misteri in cucina e cuochi del mistero negli USA tra Depressione e Guerra Fredda (Aras Edizioni, Fano 2015)

READINGS:

E.A. Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Purloined Letter", "Mary Roget", "The Man of the Crowd"

D.Hammett o R.Chandler: un romanzo a scelta

E.Hemingway: "The Killers"

Rex Stout: one novel of one's own choice

Other readings will be inserted in the materiali didattici 2015-2016

Film:

The Lady from Shanghai

Teaching

individual study at home

Attendance

study/read/watch all the material

Course books

History of literature (First year: '600-'800, second year: 900-today)

Guido Fink et altri, Storia della letteratura americana

or

http://beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn/uploads/images/HgvMMY8lezLAI9A1tuVIhg/outline_of_american_literature.pdf

or

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/American_literature.aspx

History (First year: '600-'800, second year: '900-today)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/US_History

or

http://www.ait.org.tw/infousa/zhtw/DOCS/historytln.pdf

Readings:

First year (‘600- ‘800):

Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (excerpts), Bradstreet ("The Flesh and the Spirit"), Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter), Melville (Moby Dick), Emerson ("Nature"), Poe ("The Black Cat"), Whitman ("Song of Myself", first 100 lines), Dickinson (some poems), James ("The Beast in the Jungle")

 Second year (900-today)

Ginsberg ("Howl"), Frost ("Mending Wall"), Malamud ("The Magic Barrel"), L. M. Silko (Lullaby), S. Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

a Volo di ritorno (ed. M.G.Fabi, Le Lettere), La vittima di S.Bellow (ed. A.Calanchi, Mondadori)

Texts (for everybody):

Alessandra Calanchi (ed), Arcobaleno noir. Le nuove cittadinanze del noir fra cinema e letteratura (Galaad Edizioni, Giulianova 2014)

Francesca Secci, Non solo Nero Wolfe. Misteri in cucina e cuochi del mistero negli USA tra Depressione e Guerra Fredda (Aras Edizioni, Fano 2015)

READINGS:

E.A. Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Purloined Letter", "Mary Roget", "The Man of the Crowd"

D.Hammett o R.Chandler: un romanzo a scelta

E.Hemingway: "The Killers"

Rex Stout: one novel of one's own choice

Other readings will be inserted in the materiali didattici 2015-2016 (ask the teacher for the password by mail, using the institutional account)

Film:

The Lady from Shanghai

Lezione di Andrea Laquidara

Assessment

written exam

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The course is in Italian