ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
LETTERATURA ANGLO-AMERICANA
Literary Soundscapes
Paesaggi sonori letterari
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2016/2017 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Alessandra Calanchi | on appointment |
| Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
To be able to talk and write about the main literary themes, periods, and genres (e.g. Transcendentalism, confessional poetry, the 1950s, etc.) and discuss controversial issues in relation to the texts examined. To apply soundscape studies to literary texts.
Program
The course is focused on the “soundscape”, a notion which belongs to various disciplinary fields such as ecology, acoustics, architecture, music, philosophy, and cultural studies. My aim is to apply this notion to the study of literature and to literary theory and for this reason students joining this class are requested to have a background basic knowledge of the history of US literature and to be ready to analyze literary texts and criticism from this perspective. We shall also organize a poetry-translation laboratory and make team work on “Americanizing the A25_A24_EN 2016 test”.
Bridging Courses
NOTICE: In order to attend the course, it is necessary to have a basic knowledge of Anglo-American literature and history. This knowledge will be tested during the first week. The following texts can be useful:
Literature:
Guido Fink et altri, Storia della letteratura americana or
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/American_literature.aspx
Richard Gray, A History of American Literature, file:///C:/Users/Alessandra/Desktop/a-history-of-american-literature-2004.pdf or
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/19939/American-literature
History:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/US_History or
http://www.ait.org.tw/infousa/zhtw/DOCS/historytln.pdf
Readings:
(‘600- ‘800): Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter), Melville (Moby Dick), Thoreau (“Sounds”), Poe (“The black cat”, “The Tell-Tale-Heart”), Gilman (“The Yellow Wallpaper”)
(‘900-today):Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury), Ellison (The Invisible Man), Carver (Chathedral), Silko (Lullaby), Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Talk and write about literary subjects in English
Discuss controversial issues in English
Make a ppt presentation and write an essay in English
Teaching Material
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
Supporting Activities
Books, articles, and films
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures, class discussion; individual study at home
- Attendance
Highly recommended, but non compulsory
- Course books
D. Izzo, G. Mariani (a cura di), America at large. Americanistica transnazionale e nuova comparatistica, Milano, Shake Edizioni 2004
A. Calanchi, A. Laquidara (eds), Prospettive sonore: percezione & mediazione, Galaad Edizioni, Giulianova 2016
A. Calanchi, “Tender is the Wild. Subliminal soundscapes and aural sublime in Charles Brockden Brown’s proto-crime fiction”, in www.academia.edu
Further details and more material in “MATERIALI DIDATTICI”
- Assessment
Oral presentation (with ppt); two written questionnaires: A. 31 multiple-choice questions, B. 2 open questions
(oral: 0-11, written: A 0-31, B 0-10 + 0-10. Total: 0-62, to be divided in two).
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
The whole corse is held in English, as well as the exam
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