Educational offer - University of Padova

Syllabus

Prerequisites:	Advanced linguistic skills and thorough knowledge of modes, trends, periods of the history of British and Anglophone culture and literature This is not perfectly suitable for BA Erasmus students, whose prerequisite skills might not fit the necessary requirements.
Target skills and knowledge:	Our students will be able to relate upon the core themes and questions the module will focus upon and will prove their skills in reading, connecting and commenting upon the primary and secondary works provided.
Examination methods:	Oral exam; active and continuous participation in class (oral/written presentations); compliance with reading assignments Oral presentations will be evaluated (they may be substituted by short written papers)
Assessment criteria:	Primary texts: context, genre, connection with the reading list materials Secondary texts: the critical essays assigned are to be used as a tool for discussing on the primary works in the list and relating them to the other primary works and to contextual historical and cultural issues
Course unit contents:	This course aims at introducing and analysing the issues vaguely related to ‘modernism’ and ‘modernity’ in the first decades of the twentieth century. We’ll start with WWI trech poems, with the goal of eventually reading some of the most famous works penned by our main literary authors, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, in relation to the many artistic, cultural, philosophical questions agitating Europe and the world from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods:	Lectures, powerpoint presentations, workshops, group readings of critical essays, oral presentations (or written papers)
Additional notes about suggested reading:	9 CFU Primaria: War Poems: Rosenberg, Isaac, “Dead Men’s Dump” Sassoon, Sigfried, “Repression of War Experience” Owen, Wilfred, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”; “Dulce et decorum est” T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), in Prufrock and Other Observations T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922 V. Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 1925 (other short texts or abstracts by TS Eliot and V. Woolf will be included) 6 CFU Primary War Poems: Rosenberg, Isaac, “Dead Men’s Dump” Sassoon, Sigfried, “Repression of War Experience” Owen, Wilfred, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”; “Dulce et decorum est” The Waste Land, 1922 (other short texts or abstracts by TS Eliot and V. Woolf will be included) ONE of the following: T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), in Prufrock and Other Observations V. Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 1925 Critical material Secondary works Please refer to the 'Testi di riferimento' Indications on specific chapters and a few other critical works will be provided at the beginning of the course on the Moodle platform and in a printed version at the Centro Copie Palazzo Maldura Please contact prof. Parlati to get the moodle password
Textbooks (and optional supplementary readings)	Moody, Anthony David, <<The>> Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Cambridge University Press: --, 1994. selected essays Sellers, Susan, <<The>> Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (2nd ed). --: --, --. selected essays Levenson, Michael H., <<The >>Cambridge companion to Modernismedited by Michael Levenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. selected essays Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts. Faber and Faber: --, 1971. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), Collected poems 1909-1962. Faber and Faber: --, 1974. Woolf, Virginia; Showalter, Elaine; Mcnichol, Stella, Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolfwith an introduction and notes by Elaine Showaltertext edited by Stella McNichol. London: Penguin Books, 1992.