English

This course examines the complex interactions between literature and the law. Even though the two disciplines may seem distinct, both law and literature are products of language and have overlapped in significant and interesting ways in history. Topics include: why do legal themes recur in fiction, and what kinds of literary structures underpin legal argumentation; how do novelists and playwrights imagine the law, and how do lawyers and judges interpret literary works; could literature have legal subtexts, and could legal documents be re-interpreted as literary texts.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental works of British and American literature. It provides an opportunity to read and reread texts and analyze and argue both orally and in writing. The course includes reading and discussing two assigned works: William Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT; and Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course develops a deep knowledge of British Modern Literatures with particular regard to the relationships between literary texts and history, language and the arts. Students are able to use critical methodologies to read and analyze literary texts. Course topics vary each term, check the University of Bologna Course Catalog for the applicable course topic.

This course introduces students to performative events, dramatic representations, performance processes, and theater institutions in London. London has been a "dramatized society" as Raymond Williams once put it, a "society of the spectacle" as Guy Debord claimed in another capital context. But what might these general terms mean more specifically in London, now?  How does performance theory help us to read the behaviors and relationships of people that make up the city? What are the ways in which configurations of space, power, and movement determine what it is possible to think and feel in the city? This course uses ideas from performance, theater, and literary studies as a framework to think about our everyday experience as consumers, tourists, and citizens in the global city that is London.