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Explore key literary themes across Joyce's "The Dead," Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," and Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Dead" examines tradition, memory, music, and social facades, culminating in Gabriel's escape through snow. "Jekyll and Hyde" delves into human duality, reputation, and hidden vices, contrasting good and evil. "Gulliver's Travels" critiques society's corruption, educational flaws, and individual alienation through satire and changing perspectives. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" explores nature's power, individual guilt, the sublime, and spiritual redemption, with the Albatross symbolizing sin and epiphany. These texts collectively offer profound insights into human nature, societal pressures, and the search for truth.
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- The Dead (James Joyce):
- Explores themes of past and tradition through the Morkans' annual Christmas party, highlighting how older generations influence the present and the remembrance of the dead.
- Music and art serve as a pervasive backdrop, evoking memories and social cohesion, yet also exposing hypocrisy and superficiality within the social setting.
- The narrative employs a choral perspective, revealing character relationships through varied viewpoints.
- Snow symbolizes concealment, blurring the lines between the living and the dead, and offering Gabriel a means of escape and reflection.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson):
- Focuses on the fundamental duality of human nature, personified by Jekyll's struggle between his angelic and devilish impulses, and Hyde's pure evil.
- Emphasizes the critical importance of reputation and social appearances in Victorian society, where facades often mask sordid realities and hidden vices.
- Silence and fragmentation in descriptions underscore the mystery and the internal conflict between good and evil.
- Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift):
- Utilizes estrangement to present familiar elements in an unusual light, filtering vision through different cultural perspectives (e.g., Lilliputians).
- Examines vision both physically and metaphorically, linking it to the pursuit of truth and the exposure of societal and personal corruption.
- Critiques the pervasive corruption within European society, including politics, law, and education, leading Gulliver to eventually realize his own inherent flaws and become disillusioned.
- Swift's pessimism about human nature, its irrationality, and the pursuit of earthly pleasures is a core element, as Gulliver's journey moves from defending to condemning society.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge):
- Stresses the importance of the individual and the artist's personal voice in romantic art.
- Explores human nature's relationship with the sublime, where intense natural phenomena evoke fear, terror, and awe, challenging rational thought.
- Nature plays a crucial role in the development of the individual soul, offering lessons in joy, love, freedom, and piety.
- The Albatross serves as a powerful symbol of innocence, its death representing sin and leading to the Mariner's spiritual suffering and eventual epiphany.
- The poem can be interpreted as an allegory for the soul's journey from crime to redemption, or as a commentary on the Romantic poetic process and the loss of innocence due to the Industrial Revolution.
- Key characters like the Ancient Mariner, the Wedding Guest, Death, and Life-in-Death embody the narrative's moral and supernatural dimensions.
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Il corso, tenuto principalmente in inglese, si propone di sviluppare le seguenti competenze: Analisi e interpretazione letteraria: sviluppare la capacità di leggere e apprezzare testi drammatici contemporanei; Pensiero critico e autonomia di giudizio: imparare a formulare interpretazioni indipendenti e criticamente…