LETTERATURA INGLESE 2 (Iniziali cognome A-L) 2024-2025

The course is entitled “Drain You. Otherness and Alienation in 20th century English Literature”. It focuses on depictions of subjectivity in relation to the Other and alienation in some key works of English literature spanning the period between the two world wars. Starting with Modernist landmarks, both in poetry (selections from Eliot, Yeats, Auden) and in fiction (J. Joyce, "The Dead"; V. Woolf, "Mrs Dalloway"), the course then explores alienation and threat in dystopia (G. Orwell, "1984"), before moving on to the bleak urban alienation seen from a woman's perspective (J. Rhys, "Good Morning, Midnight"), and subsequently to the macabre irony of M. Spark ("Memento Mori") and the stark dissection by G. Greene ("Brighton Rock"). The course concludes with a look at the post-war period, featuring poetic selections from P. Larkin and "Waiting for Godot" by S. Beckett.

Works:
T. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden (selections)
J. Joyce, “The Dead”
V. Woolf, _Mrs Dalloway_
G. Orwell, _1984_
J. Rhys, _Good Morning, Midnight_
M. Spark, _Memento Mori_
G. Greene,_Brighton Rock_
P. Larkin (selections)
S. Beckett, _Waiting for Godot_