The course aims to deepen literary aspects and problems and to provide critical skills in the analysis of significant works. Through the analysis of texts according to precise critical methodologies and thanks to the connection to the relative historical and cultural context, students will be able to understand and evaluate the literary quality of the works they have read and commented on with full autonomy of judgement. Specifically, the learning outcomes should be:
1) to know the main features and characteristics relating to coeval English literature and culture;
2) to be able to analyse and comment on the texts in question;
3) to be able to formulate judgements on the subject autonomously;
4) to be able to appropriately communicate what they have learnt:
5) to be able to understand and interpret similar literary phenomena not covered in the syllabus.