Ateneo - UPO

GENDER; BODY; AND SEXUALITY IN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE 1890.

Erin James e Eric Morel, Environment and Narrative. New Directions in Econarratology

Carroll - Tolan, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism (Routledge 2023)

Nicholas Royle, a cura di, Best British Short Stories 2021 (Salt Publisahing 2021)

Nicholas Royle, a cura di, Best British Short Stories 2020 (Salt Publisahing 2020)

* Acquire an awareness of the cultural and historical implications of the keywords in the module title.
* Learn to read literary texts according to a clear thematic focus.
* Learn the difference between author and narrator in order to discuss narrative and ideological strategies in relation to the chosen keywords and themes.
* Learn how to write clearly and correctly, answering in a focused way to specific questions about the narrator's strategies in relation to the themes of gender, body and sexuality in the selected short stories, avoiding generalizations.

English level B1. Sufficient skill in written Italian with grammatical correctness: punctuation, syntax, paragraph structure, spelling, register.

Lectures; discussions in classroom.

The literary texts to be analyzed in class will be made available on the DIR space of the module.

Foreign students with low competences in Italian or English are advised to refer to the teacher at the beginning of the module.

The student will be evaluated through a written exam (in Italian or English) with two questions: the first will concern the issues and focal keywords of the module as regards the comparison of two short stories (500 words); the second will evaluate the ability to recognize some of the formal and stylistic devices of the short stories. The written answers will be assessed both as to their form and content (50%-50%).

The module offers a cultural-historical introduction to terms and notions, such as body, gender, sex and sexuality in the period examined in the module. 8 short stories written between the 1890s and the 2000's will be commented and discussed. An important part of the module will focus on the question of the narrator (and narrative voice) in order to analyze the short stories from a broad cultural and ideological standpoint.

- Knowledge and comprehension skills: to write about the themes covered by the module with a historical perspective and an awareness of their socio-cultural complexity; to be able to compare different perspectives on similar topics by different authors; basic ability to analyze a literary text both as regards its themes and ideological point of view, and its formal (narrative) strategies.
– Applied knowledge and comprehension skills: improved reading skills in English applied to short literary texts, paying attention to form and content; improved skills in writing short clear and focused texts in reply to specific questions of reading comprehension.