Liceo Scientifico "Guido Castelnuovo" Classe 5 D as 2015-16 Docente: Vera Bianco PROGRAMMA SVOLTO Facendo riferimento al libro di testo M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, Only Connect, New Directions, volumi 2 e 3, Zanichelli e ad alcuni materiali fornito su fotocopia sono stati svolti i seguenti argomenti, autori e i testi indicati: THE VICTORIAN AGE Key Points The Early Victorian Age The Later years of Victoria's Reign The Victorian Compromise The Victorian novel CHARLES DICKENS Life and works. A didactic aim. Social issues. Style and reputation. Serialization. Oliver Twist Plot. Main themes. The world of the workhouse. Oliver asks for more The enemies of the system Visione del film Oliver Twist di Roman Polanski. Hard Times Plot. Industrialisation. A critique of materialism.
Coketown Nothing but Facts EMILY BRONTE Life and works Wuthering Heights Plot. Characters. Main themes. Romantic elements. Opposing principles. The theme of death. The style of the novel Wuthering Heights Catherine declares herself RUDYARD KIPLING Life and works. India and Britain. Imperialism and The White Man's Burden Short story: Lisbeth OSCAR WILDE Life and works. The Rebel and the Dandy. Art for Art s Sake. Aestheticism and Decadence Short stories: The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant (photocpies) The Picture of Dorian Gray Plot. Characters. Main themes. Narrative technique. Allegorical meaning.
Preface Dorian s Death Accenni a The Importance of being Earnest Mothers's worries THOMAS HARDY Life and works. Wessex. The Countryside. Women and Victorian morality. Fate and determinism. Tess of the D'Urbevilles The Chase The end at Stonehenge (photocopy) JOSEPH CONRAD Life and works. Imperialism. Moving towards Modernity. Heart of Darkness The chain-gang Kurtz's Death: The horror THE MODERN AGE Key Points The Age of Anxiety Modernism and experimentation JAMES JOYCE
Life and works. Dublin. The rebellion against the Church. A subjective perception of time. Experimentalism in language: Dubliners The collection. The use of epiphany. Paralysis. Narrative technique. Eveline The Dead Portrait Where was he ( the bird girl) Ulysses Plot. The relation to Odyssey. The setting. The representation of human nature. Characters. Main themes. The mythical method. A revolutionary prose. I said yes I will VIRGINIA WOOLF Life and works. Post-war London. Language, experimentation and subjective time. A femminist writer. Mrs Dalloway Clarissa and Septimus Clarissa's party Shakespeare's sister GEORGE ORWELL
Life and works. First-hand experiences. An influential voice of the 20 th century. The artist s development. Social themes. Shooting an Elephant Animal Farm History as fable Old Major's speech Nineteen Eight-Four Plot. An anti-utopian novel. Themes. How can you control memory? This was London SEAMUS HEANEY Life and works. Ireland and the Irish problem. National identity and the land. Poems. Punishment (photocopy) Digging IAN McEWAN Life and works. History and the influence of history. Evil.
Black Dogs. Plot. The structure of the novel. The theme of history. Numerous voices and relative realities. The presence of evil. A picture of Europe today. A racy attack (The Fall of the Berlin Wall) Madjanek