English literature I (LS) - Modulo 1 (2005/2006)

Learning outcomes

Il corso si propone di esplorare due momenti significativi della letteratura e della cultura inglese – l’età Elisabettiana e il Settecento – anche nei loro esiti Otto-Novecenteschi.

Various patterns of affinity, influence, and intertextuality have been recognized along the so called Ovidian line and its continuation from Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton into a great deal of twentieth century culture that includes psychoanalysis and postmodernism as well as surrealism and magic realism. Part one focuses on Shakespeare’s romances and their indebtedness to Golding’s Meatamrphoses and Chaucer’s Ovid; part two focuses on modernist and postmodernist writers.

Testi
- G. Chaucer, The Knight’s Tale in Canterbury Tales, q.e.
- A. Golding, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Penguin Classics (ed. Forey M.)

- W. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arden
- W. Shakespeare, The Tempest, Arden
- W. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, New Cambridge
- V. Woolf, Orlando, Penguin
- D. Malouf, An Imaginary Life, Picador

Bibliografia
- S.A. Brown, The Metamorphoses of Ovid: from Chaucer to Ted Hughes, Duckworth, 2002
- P. Hollander, “Theseus Shadows in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Shakespeare Survey”, (47)1994, 139-51
- R. McDonald, Myth in A Midsummers Night’s Dream, “Shakespeare Survey”, (43), 1991, 15-28
- T. Hughes, Shakespeare’s Ovid, Enitharmon Press, 1995
- S. Homan, The Tempest and Shakespeare’s Last Plays: The Aesthetic Dimension, “Shakespeare Quarterly”, (24)1973, 69-76

Esame orale.