The course aims to explore aspects and problems of the contemporary/postmodern English novel
and to provide critical skills in the analysis of significant literary texts. 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 of postmodern literature and culture;
2) to know how to comment on the texts in question and to analyse postmodern literature;
3) to be able to formulate judgements on the subject;
4) to be able toappropriately communicate what they have learnt;
5) to be able to understand and interpret similar literary phenomena not covered in the syllabus independently.