ENGLISH LANGUAGE I-II
LINGUA INGLESE I-II
Literary and multimodal stylistics
Stilistica letteraria e multimodale
| A.Y. | Credits |
|---|---|
| 2015/2016 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
|---|---|---|
| Massimiliano Morini |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is providing the students with metalinguistic knowledge and analytic techniques for the stylistic understanding and close reading of literary and multimodal texts in English.
Program
The course, held as a seminar, is about literary and multimodal stylistics. A general overview of the tools and methodologies of stylistics will be followed by the application of those tools and methodologies in the analysis of literary, multimodal and translational texts.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The students must eventually be able to apply their stylistic knowledge and competence to any kind of literary or multimodal text.
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
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Seminar
- Attendance
Attendance is evaluated
- Course books
M. Morini, ‘Towards a musical stylistics: Movement in Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that Hill’, 2013, Language and Literature 22(4), pp. 283-97.
M. Morini, ‘Multimodal thought presentation in Chris Ware’s Building Stories’ 2015, Multimodal Communication 4:1, 31-41.
- Assessment
Short talk
- 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Study
- Course books
G.N. Leech, M.H. Short, Style in Fiction. A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose, London/New York, Longman, 1981, pp. 121-66, 206-30, 255-81.
D. Wilson and D. Sperber, ‘Irony and the Use-Mention Distinction’, 1981, in P. Cole, ed., Radical Pragmatics, OUP, pp. 550-63.
M. Morini, ‘Translation, Stylistics, and To the Lighthouse: A Deictic Shift Theory Analysis’, 2014, Target 26:1, pp. 128-45.
M. Morini, ‘Towards a musical stylistics: Movement in Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that Hill’, 2013, Language and Literature 22(4), pp. 283-97.
M. Morini, ‘Multimodal thought presentation in Chris Ware’s Building Stories’ 2015, Multimodal Communication 4:1, 31-41.
- Assessment
Written test (stylistic analysis of short text, in English. Use of a monolingual dictionary is allowed).
- 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.
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