Course code:
Academic year:
Course title:
Modern and Contemporary English Literature A
Module:
U - Modern and Contemporary English Literature A
Teacher 1:
Teacher 1:
Type 1:
Reference sector:
Year of degree course:
Second
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Sub period:
Total credits:
Workload
| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
30.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
0.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
95.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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| Seminari: Seminars: |
0.0 |
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| Laboratori: Laboratories: |
0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
125.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
6.0 |
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of English Language I.
Educational goals:
To provide guidelines for the understanding of modernity, by addressing key texts in cultural history.
Course contents:
"Escapes: Authority and the Culture of Entertainment in 19th-century Britain". The course addresses the culture industry in the nineteenth century, highlighting the conceptual foundations and modes of production, and showing the inherent tension in its rationale of 'entertainment'.
Course text 1:
Course text 2:
Course text 3:
Teaching activities:
Lectures, slides
Assessment:
written
Students must show knowledge of course texts and acquisition of the analytical skills taught in the lectures.
Teaching language:
Italian
Other information:
It is strongly adivsed that students take the exam for Module A at once with the exam for module B.