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1 LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE PROGRAMMA SVOLTO Classe 5I Docente: Grazia Bua a.s Libro di testo adottato: Spiazzi, Tavella, ONLY CONNECT NEW DIRECTIONS, Zanichelli, vol.2-3 THE ROMANTIC AGE From the Napoleonic Wars to the Regency pp. D56-57 The Egotistical Sublime pp. D58 The Literary Context : Reality and Vision pp.d60-61 The Novel of Manners p.d67 The Gothic Novel: MARY SHELLEY: life and main works p.d39 FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS D40-41 Walton and Frankenstein D43-44 The Creation of the Monster D45-46 The Education of the Monster D47-48 William Wordsworth: life and works p. D78 The manifesto of English Romanticism p.d78 Man and nature ;The sense and memory; Recollection in tranquillity; The poet s task and his style pp.d78-79 A certain colouring of imagination pp. D81-82 DAFFODILS p. D85 COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE PP. D86-87 THE SOLITARY REAPER (in fotocopia)

2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: life and works p. D94 Importance of imagination ; The power of fancy; Importance of nature; The language pp.d94-95 THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER P. D97: The Killing of the Albatross pp.d The Water Snakes pp.d A Sadder and a Wiser Man pp.d109 John Keats: life and works p.d126 Keats s reputation; The substance of his poetry: The role of imagination;beauty:the central theme of his poetry; Physical beauty and spiritual beauty; Negative capability pp.d ODE ON A GRECIAN URN pp.d LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY PP. D132 D133 Jane Austen: life and works p.d136 The debt to the 18th century novel; The national marriage market; Austen s treatment of love pp. D SENSE AND SENSIBILITY pp.d An Excellent Match pp.d Willoughby and Marianne pp. D THE VICTORIAN AGE The early Victorian Age pp.e4-6 The later years of QueenVictoria pp. E7-8 The Victorian Compromise pp. E14-16 The Victorian frame of mind pp. E17-18 The Literary Context : The Victorian novel pp.e20-21 Aestheticism and Decadence pp.e31-32

3 Charles Dickens: life and works pp.e37-38 The plot of Dickens s novels; Characters;A didactic aim;style and reputation pp.e38 OLIVER TWIST P.E40 Oliver Wants Some More pp.e41-42 The enemies of the system pp. E43-44 HARD TIMES p.e52 A Definition of a Horse (fotocopia) Coketown p.e54-56 Robert Louis Stevenson: life and works pp. E96 The origin of The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ; Plot; The double nature of the setting ; Good and evil; narrative technique; Influences and interpretations pp. E96-97 The Carew Murder Case pp Jekyll s Experiment pp.e Oscar Wilde : life and works pp.e The rebel and the dandy;art for Art s Sake; pp.e111 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY p.e112 Preface p.e114 Lord Henry s Hedonism (fotocopia) Dorian s Hedonism pp. E THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST pp.e Mother s Worries pp.e THE MODERN AGE The Edwardian Age pp.f4-5 The Twenties and the Thirties p.f8 The Age of Anxiety pp. F14-F16 The Literary Context: Modernism pp.f17-18 Modern poetry pp.f19-20

4 The Modern Novel pp.f22-23 THE WAR POETS : Rupert Brooke e Wilfred Owen pp.f42-43 The Soldier p.f45 Dulce and decorum est p.f46 Thomas Stearns Eliot : life and works pp. F52-53 The conversion;the impersonality of the artist p. F53 THE WASTE LAND pp.f54-55 The Burial of the Dead pp.f57-f58 The Fire Sermon pp.f59-60 JAMES JOYCE: life and works pp.f138 Ordinary Dublin; The rebellion against the Church; A poor eye-sight; A subjective perception of time; The impersonality of the artist; pp. F DUBLINERS pp.f Eveline pp.f She was fast asleep pp.f ULYSSES pp. F The funeral p.f154 I said yes I will sermon pp.f GEORGE ORWELL : life and works pp.f189 First hand experience;an influential voice of the 20th century;the artist development; Social themes pp NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR pp.f This was London pp. F Newspeak F Film in versione originale (integrali o una scelta di scene): Frankenstein di K. Branagh Oliver Twist di R. Polanski The Importance of being Earnest di O. Parker 1984 di M. Radford Firenze,7 Giugno 2014 La docente I rappresentanti

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