"La narrativa gotica negli Stati Uniti tra Ottocento e Novecento".
Il corso intende indagare l’evoluzione della narrativa gotica all’interno della storia letteraria statunitense dal Rinascimento americano al Modernismo.
PROGRAMMA DA 9 CFU
Il programma da 9 CFU prevede la discussione delle seguenti opere letterarie e dei relativi contributi critici:
Testi letterari:
Edgar Allan Poe, “Berenice” (1835)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Giant Wistaria” (1891)
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Willa Cather, “The Affair at Grover Station” (1900)
H.P. Lovecraft, “Pickman’s Model” (1927)
Testi critici:
J.A. Weinstock, “Introduction: The American Gothic”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic, edited by J.A. Weinstock, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 1-12.
B.F. Fisher, “Poe and the Gothic Tradition”, in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe, edited by. K.J. Hayes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 72-91.
M. Elbert, “From the Editor’s Gable”, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 50/1 (2024), pp. iii-x.
S.P. Conner, “’Horror More Horrible From Being Vague, and Terror More Terrible From Ambiguity’: Liminal Figures in Poe’s ‘Berenice’ and Gilman’s ‘The Giant Wistaria’”, The Edgar Allan Poe Review 20/1 (2019), pp. 77-95.
S.M. Senzaki, “Giving Up the Realist Ghost in The Turn of the Screw”, Modernism/Modernity 5 (2021), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0179.
E.J.W. Hinds, “American Frontier Gothic”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic, edited by J.A. Weinstock, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 128-140.
C. Sederholm, “What Screams are Made Of: Representing Cosmic Fear in H.P. Lovecraft's ‘Pickman's Model’”, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 16/4 (2006), pp. 335-349.
PROGRAMMA DA 7 CFU
Il programma da 7 CFU prevede la discussione delle seguenti opere letterarie e dei relativi contributi critici:
Testi letterari:
Edgar Allan Poe, “Berenice” (1835)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Giant Wistaria” (1891)
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Willa Cather, “The Affair at Grover Station” (1900) OPPURE H.P. Lovecraft, “Pickman’s Model” (1927)
Testi critici:
J.A. Weinstock, “Introduction: The American Gothic”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic, edited by J.A. Weinstock, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 1-12.
B.F. Fisher, “Poe and the Gothic Tradition”, in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe, edited by. K.J. Hayes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 72-91.
M. Elbert, “From the Editor’s Gable”, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 50/1 (2024), pp. iii-x.
S.P. Conner, “’Horror More Horrible From Being Vague, and Terror More Terrible From Ambiguity’: Liminal Figures in Poe’s ‘Berenice’ and Gilman’s ‘The Giant Wistaria’”, The Edgar Allan Poe Review 20/1 (2019), pp. 77-95.
S.M. Senzaki, “Giving Up the Realist Ghost in The Turn of the Screw”, Modernism/Modernity 5 (2021), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0179.
E.J.W. Hinds, “American Frontier Gothic”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic, edited by J.A. Weinstock, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 128-140 OPPURE C. Sederholm, “What Screams are Made Of: Representing Cosmic Fear in H.P. Lovecraft's ‘Pickman's Model’”, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 16/4 (2006), pp. 335-349.
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