Alessandra Petrina

Alessandra Petrina
Nazione:Italia

Corsi

Universities and the spread of secular learning

This workshop is meant to offer a first introduction to the Universities in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, paying special attention to the Padua case study. The workshop will include visits to the historical seat of the University and to the Botanical Garden.

Categoria A.A. 2024 - 2025 / Corsi di laurea / ITALIAN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

English literary history from the early sixteenth to the first half of the seventeenth century. Analysis of the historical and social context, with a survey of the main authors and literary trends. Elizabethan theatre and its modes. An analysis of a choice of texts from the Henrician, Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

Categoria A.A. 2024 - 2025 / Corsi di laurea / LINGUE, LETTERATURE E MEDIAZIONE CULTURALE

These classes are meant to give students a first knowledge of the main authors and texts of English literature between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries, through the practice of reading and analyzing a selection of texts in Middle English. We shall also study issues and topics that are central to late medieval English culture. Through these classes students shall acquire the ability to read and analyze texts in Middle English.
The following topics will be discussed:
1. An introduction to Middle English literature.
2. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
3. Geoffrey Chaucer, Dream Visions: The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls.

Categoria A.A. 2024 - 2025 / Corsi di laurea magistrale / LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE E AMERICANE

This workshop is meant to offer a first introduction to the Universities in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, paying special attention to the Padua case study. The workshop will include visits to the historical seat of the University and to the Botanical Garden.
Attendance is mandatory. There will be no final exam, but a series of tasks during the course.
The course starts on Friday, 15th March, in Aula A. Please email me (alessandra.petrina@unipd.it) for any further information.

Categoria A.A. 2023 - 2024 / Corsi di laurea / ITALIAN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA
These classes are meant to give students a first training in the main poetic forms present in English literature. Besides, through the reading and analysis of poetic texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the classes offer an introduction to Tudor and Stuart literature.
English literary history from the early sixteenth to the first half of the seventeenth century. Analysis of the historical and social context, with a survey of the main authors and literary trends. Early modern poetry and its modes. An analysis of a choice of texts from the Henrician, Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

Categoria A.A. 2023 - 2024 / Corsi di laurea / LINGUE, LETTERATURE E MEDIAZIONE CULTURALE