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Electronic edition
Open Access
Year of edition: 2008
e-ISBN: 978-88-8453-728-7

Saggi di anglistica e americanistica

Temi e prospettive di ricerca

a cura di De Zordo, Ornella

Ornella De Zordo is a Full Professor at the University of Florence. From 1999 to 2003 she was the President of the Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literature in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. In 2005 she was appointed Co-ordinator of the Doctorate in English and American Studies. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal "LEA - Letterature d'Europa e d'America". She has written numerous articles and has edited a number of studies, including: Le riscritture del Postmoderno. Percorsi angloamericani (with F. Fantaccini, editors, 2002).

Serie: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca

Scientific committee: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna

The acquisition of critical and methodological tools that lead to a refinement of critical capacities is one of the primary aims of a research doctorate. This is why the PhD in English and American Studies of the University of Florence has focused on the mastery of the most advanced critical methods as a lynchpin in the training of the doctoral students, stimulating a comparison between the different methods and trends that characterise the contemporary critical scene. Hence cultural, gender and postcolonial studies, comparative studies and translations are the subject of elaboration and practical application. The result of the year's work of each first and second year doctoral student is an essay, which is supervised by one or two of the Faculty lecturers and is then presented, discussed and approved by the Faculty itself. The book provides evidence of this research work. The climate of collaboration that emerged also made it possible to implement a collective approach to the technical editing of the work. The heterogeneous nature of the subjects dealt with in the individual studies illustrates the freedom of choice of the young academics: the book presents eight essays dealing with theatre, narrative, poetry and autobiographical writing ranging in period from the Renaissance to the modern day. They offer critical perspectives on areas such as the analysis of postmodern rewriting and identity, the postcolonial stance and theories of reception and translation.