Detect / create continuities with previously acquired knowledge;

Acquire specific jargon;

Acquire critical instruments of analysis;

Recognize the literary text as an arena of negotiation between the past and the present;

Understand US cultural-literary identity;

Be able to distinguish between different genres and authors;

Find intersections and interfaces between disciplines (history, geography, film studies, political science, etc.);

To be able to apply the methodology of study and research to other aspects of US culture

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 detection, from divination to detective and crime fiction. 

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- knowledge and understanding of historical-cultural context, critical instrument for text analysis to study Anglo-American literature from the origins to the 19th century (1st year) and from the 19th century to today (second year)

-applying knowledge and understanding to literary analysis

- making judgements - the student can analyze and evaluate texts and form personal opinions about different ethnic grouops aand genres

- communication skills:the student understands and appreciates difference and other cultures

-learning skills:the student can write a bibliography and use methods of research in order to be able to contuinue their studies in the Laurea Magistrale (AngloAmerican Literature) 

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

Books, articles, the Internet, conferences, films.

Teaching

Lectures, class discussion; study at home

Attendance

Not compulsory

Course books

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”), Melville (“Bartleby”), Hawthorne (“Wakefield”), Emerson (“Nature”), Whitman (“Song of Myself”, first 50 lines), Dickinson (some poems), James (“The Beast in the Jungle”)

Readings (Second year) (‘900-today):

Ginsberg (“Howl”), Frost (“Mending Wall”), Malamud (“The Magic Barrel”), Volo di ritorno (ed. M.G.Fabi, Le Lettere), La vittima di S.Bellow (ed. A.Calanchi, Mondadori)

Detection and Crime fiction

E. A. Poe: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Purloined Letter”, “The Man of the Crowd”

R. Chandler: “Red Wind”

E. Hemingway: “The Killers”

S. Glaspell: “Trifles”

W. Allen: “Mr. Big”

R. Emerson, The Divining Rod, a cura di A. Calanchi (Galaad 2016)

A. Calanchi (a cura di), Arcobaleno noir. Le nuove cittadinanze del noir fra cinema e letteratura (Galaad 2014)

L. Sartori, Oltre il Sacro Canone (Aras 2016)

(Also look in the “materiali didattici”)

Assessment

Written exam (questionnaire with 31 multiple-choice questions)

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.