Piattaforma Moodle della Scuola di scienze umane, sociali e del patrimonio culturale

PROF. VACLAV LUCIEN PARIS

PROF. VACLAV LUCIEN PARIS

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. Marilena Parlati

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

The course is titled "The Quest for Freedom in English Poetry, from Romanticism to Modernism". It focuses on the genre of poetry, seen through a selection of masterpieces belonging to this period. The fundamental theme is the search for freedom in all its meanings: the search for the spirit in the Romantics (Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats), the search for identity and dialogue in Browning and Tennyson, and the search for free meaning in T.S. Eliot. Through close reading of the texts, placed in their historical and cultural context, the course will outline the cultural and literary changes that these works reflect, offering students a solid education in the literature of various periods.

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

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PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

Il corso si intitola: "Ecstasy in Early Modern Poetry".

Si concentra sull'estasi come stato mentale di alterazione, fenomeno psicologico straordinario rispetto alla normalità, tanto nella poesia amorosa secolare quanto in quella religiosa e devozionale. Il corso studierà lo stile poetico dell'estasi come momento improvviso di rivelazione della mente e dell'anima, mediante un lungo excursus che da Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney e Spenser si concentra poi su Shakespeare, Donne e i poeti metafisici.

Le opere saranno analizzate rispetto ai contesti storici e culturali della produzione letteraria del periodo "early modern", con particolare attenzione per le convenzioni e le mode letterarie. I testi saranno anche illustrati alla luce della loro afterlife nella cultura contemporanea (musica classica e pop, cinema, televisione, arte, etc.).

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The tile of the course is "Ecstasy in Early Modern Poetry".
It will focus on ecstasy as an altered mental state, a psychological phenomenon in opposition to normality, both in secular love poetry and in religious poetry. The course will study the poetical style of ecstasy as a sudden revelation of the mind and the soul, through a detailed detour from Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney and Spenser onwards to Shakespeare, Donne and the Metaphysical poets.

The works will be analysed with respect to the historical and cultural contests of the early modern period, with an emphasis on literary conventions and fashions. The texts will be also seen through their afterlife in contemporary culture (art, classical and pop music, cinema, tv, etc.).

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

The course is entitled "Less Than. The Human, Inhuman, and Posthuman in Shakespeare".
What it means to be human, and more broadly what the human is, in our period of wars, invasions, and persecutions, is unfortunately a daily problem that challenges our consciences.

What it means to be human, and more broadly what the human is, in our period of wars, invasions, and persecutions, is a problem that often arises. The course aims to analyze this theme in Shakespeare. Violence, and the temptation to resort to it, often constitutes the occasion when Shakespearean characters not only demonstrate their humanity or desire to overcome moral barriers and become inhuman, but also the moment when what it means to be human is defined. Even comedy, as demonstrated by _Twelfth Night_, captures what it means to fall in love with another human being and thus discover one's own humanity. Yet, it also explores, through the persecution of the eccentric Malvolio, how one can become inhuman in mockery. The same applies even more to a problem play like _Measure for Measure_ The inflexible judge Angelo embodies a literal law that knows no mercy, yet in his own flesh he feels the call of desire that he would censor. Hence the shift towards the completely inhuman is easy. In a radical mode, the misanthropy of the protagonist of _Timon of Athens_ embodies a more absolute contempt for the human being, whose serious limitations, however, have been widely demonstrated, almost justifying that hatred. In _The Tempest_, the human passions of revenge and the almost divine one of forgiveness confront each other precisely around what it means to be human. Again, it is a woman, Miranda, who immediately shows the admirable faculty of empathy. Through Caliban, however, and the enchanted landscape of the island, the posthuman also emerges, which goes beyond the traditional categories of the human and its opposite.
The ultimate Shakespearean synthesis of the problem appears in _King Lear_: here madness allows us to paradoxically discover the misery of being human, and where there is simultaneously the loss of all limits and the deliberate embrace of inhumanity, and the establishment of a profoundly human pity in Cordelia.

Through comparison with contemporary sources as well, the course will first analyze the two comedies (_Twelfth Night_ and _Measure for Measure_), then move on to _Timon of Athens_ and _The Tempest_. These works constitute the first 6 CFU (42 hours). The remaining 3 CFU (21 hours), required for those taking the 9 CFU course, will involve a close reading of _King Lear_.


The works will be analysed with respect to the historical and cultural contests of the early modern period, with an emphasis on literary conventions and fashions. The texts will be also seen through their afterlife in contemporary culture (art, classical and pop music, cinema, tv, etc.).

If needed, further changes will be notified during the course.

The literary texts are to be bought; please choose the recommended editions.

ALL critical texts will be available online on the course Moodle.

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

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PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

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.

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

Docente: Prof.ssa Alessandra petrina

 

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. Maria Maddalena Parlati

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. ALESSANDRA PETRINA

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARILENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. ROCCO CORONATO

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. MARIA MADDALENA PARLATI

PROF. GABRIELE BIZZARRI

PROF. GABRIELE BIZZARRI