Docente
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MARTINO MARIO COSTANTINO BENEDETTO
(programma)
In questo corso si esaminerà la produzione lirica e poetica inglese tra Cinquecento e Seicento in rapporto al contesto sociale e culturale della English Renaissance. In particolare, si vedrà come essa, attraverso i suoi elementi formali, sia manifestazione di un generale conflitto tra un vecchio mondo legato alla concezione aristocratica e un nuovo mondo emergente legato alla affermazione della borghesia. Contestualmente, apparirà come la stessa forma sia agente di quel cambiamento
Primary texts:
Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser, and Sidney (selection of poems).
Shakespeare, The Sonnets (Kerrigan [Ed.] Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986; or any other major edition: i.e. Arden, Cambridge, Oxford); Venus and Adonis.
J. Donne, (selection of poems).
Reading List:
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales ("General Prologue", "The Wife of Bath's Tale".
Shakespeare: The Tempest
Milton: “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”; Paradise Lost, Book I, vv. 1-26.
Seminars/written papers on related subjects will account for part of the total program and exam.
Criticism (secondary texts):
Auden, W.H., "Sonnets", in Kirsch (Ed.), Lectures on Shakespeare, Princeton, Princeton UP, pp. 86-100.
Booth, S., "The Value of the Sonnets",
in Shoenfeldt M. (Ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 15-26.
Lever, J.W., "Shakespeare's Narrative Poems", in Muir and Shoenbaum (Eds.), A New Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 116-126 + 267-8.
Wells, S., "Shakespeare Criticism Since Bradley", in Muir and Shoenbaum (Eds.), A New Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 249-261 + 276.
Hawkes, T., "Shakespeare and New Critical Approaches", in Wells S. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 287-302.
Martino, M., "Machiavelli shakespeariano: politics/politic nei Sonnets", in P. Innocenti e M. Rossi, Bibliografia delle edizioni di Nicolò Machiavelli, 1506-1914, vol I, Vecchiarelli, Manziana, 2015, pp. 115-126.
Melchiori, G., "'Tis better to be vile': Sonnet 121 and the Ethics of Social Behaviour" in Id., Shakespeare Dramatic Meditations, Oxford, Oxford UP, pp. 71-103.
Vendler, H. "Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets", in Shoenfeldt M. (Ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 27-44.
Rackin, Ph., “The Lady’s Reeking Breath”, in Shakespeare and Women, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 95-111.
Students need to know the English literary history, from Chaucer to Milton (circa), reading carefully at least one of the following:
Sanders, A., The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford U; Bertinetti, P., English Literature. A Short History, Torino, Einaudi; Alexander, M., A History of English Literature; Fowler, A., A History of English Literature, Oxford, Blackwell; Albert E., History of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford UP; (or any other English Literary History).
Reference texts (optional, and for the parts related to the program only): Kermode F. e Hollander J. (Eds), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1973; or, Abrams M. H. (Ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature vol. I, 2006.
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