ENGLISH CULTURE
CULTURA INGLESE
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2025/2026 | 8 |
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| Maria Elisa Montironi | Tuesday 13:00-15:00. Students need to book office hours via email. |
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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
This course explores twenty-first century British culture focusing on three major topics: feminism, identity and crisis.
Students will examine how the aforementioned key themes have impacted on British society and have shaped the meaning of the word ‘British’ today through analysing the plays of contemporary women playwrights. These texts will be studied and discussed in dialogue with a selection of critical literature on feminism, theatre and cultural studies, as well as with films, newspaper articles and fundamental past literary works.
The course aims at providing students with the theoretical and methodological tools to understand and comment on key issues pertaining to twenty-first century British culture, and identify how they are presented and debated in contemporary texts. Linking theory with empirical work, the course also aims at developing critical thinking skills and promoting autonomous judgment.
Program
1) Key concepts in cultural studies
2) Feminisms
Penelope Skinner: Linda
Laura Wade: Home, I’m Darling
Nina Raine: Consent
3) Identities
Alia Bano: Shades
Bola Agbaje: Gone Too Far!
Morgan Llloyd Malcolm: Emilia
4) Crises
Carol Ann Duffy: My Country
Lucy Prebble: Enron
Caryl Churchill: Escaped Alone
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
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