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Italy in the Words of British & American Writers
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This Course is Available through these Programs:
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Italian Language & Culture
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Modern Italian Perspectives
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Academic Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Florence
Location: Florence, ItalyPrimary Subject Area: English Language & Literature
Level(s): 300
UNH Course Code: ENG362
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Additional Fee Description: The additional fee covers active learning components that are above and beyond typical course costs, such as site visits, entrance fees and other expenses. Spring 2009 fee = $40; Spring 2010 fee = not yet available
Description
The focus of the course is on close analysis of selected narratives by British and American writers who traveled in and wrote about Italy. Yet, during this course you won't just read the works of famous British and American authors such as Lord Byron, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway (and many others who travelled and resided in Italy), but you'll have the unrepeatable opportunity to actively research and retrace their exact steps in order to explore at first hand the places and events, both real and imagined, that influenced them so greatly.
During the course students will learn not only the vocabulary and definitions used in critical analysis of fiction (narrative voice, point of view, characterization, setting, themes) but also to distinguish the characteristics of nineteenth-century literary movements (Romanticism, Realism and Modernism). At a personal level you'll be constantly encouraged to interpret the impressions (and the places) of Anglo-American writers, and indeed the whole concept of 'otherness' in any given culture, through written work in an ongoing journal. On your own travels throughout the peninsula you can then accurately chart writers' reactions against yours in your journal, exploring your own attitudes and values in a tangible, comparative way.
In Florence you'll enjoy a sequence of detailed on-site readings and seminars in the precise places that drew those writers' curiosity, and to follow up we'll make special class visits to normally inaccessible locations including a tour of the 'English' monumental cemetery (where the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter Savage Landor and Arthur Hugh Clough are buried) led by its curator; a visit to the Casa Guidi (home to the Brownings); and a special backstage tour of the libraries and archives of the British Institute of Florence (founded in 1917).
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