ENGLISH LITERATURE 1

The course, as part of the LCSL degree course, introduces students to the knowledge of the literary and cultural heritage of English-speaking countries, and will provide the students with skills in the thematic and stylistic analysis of selected literary texts.

The course will introduce students to some key literary, artistic, and cultural phenomena, and will underline their relevance for an analysis of the contemporary world. Students will enhance their skills in cultural and literary analysis as well as reading and translation skills. They will be able to relate texts to their historical and cultural contexts and communicate their comments and critical reflections on them with appropriate language.

B2 level in The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Title: "Creating and Destroying Worlds. Literature and Life”

The module will analyze two famous literary texts, Shakespeare’s *The Tempest* and Mary Shelley’s *Frankenstein*, in the light of some key contemporary issues: the relationship between human beings and the environment, the link between technology and power, the meeting and clash of civilizations, the changing notions of life and the human. We will address the question whether reading literary texts can make us better readers of the present time, and whether the digital revolution is also transforming the ways in which our brain comprehends literary language and the world.

William Shakespeare, LA TEMPESTA, a cura di Alessandro Serpieri e Clara Mucci, Marsilio, 2006
Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN, London: Penguin, 2003
Jonathan Bate, ENGLISH LITERATURE. A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION, Oxford University Press, 2015.
Critical essays available on the Moodle platform

Students will be tested with four questions on the issues discussed in assigned reading and lectures. As part of the exam, they will be asked to translate, analyze and evaluate an excerpt from *Frankenstein*. In the exam they will have to prove that they have acquired a good knowledge of the cultural and historical contexts of the assigned texts, and that they have developed a basic ability to analyze, evaluate, and form autonomous judgments on the texts discussed.

Class lectures, with multimedia materials and materials on Moodle

Italian

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Climate change and energy" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development