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
- 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.
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).
- 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.
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