PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE CLASSE 4L

PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
CLASSE 4L anno scolastico 2009-2010
Docente : Paola Parodo
Libro di testo : LIT AND LAB- VOL. 1
THE TOOLS OF POETRY –THE MAIN LINGUSTIC DEVICES
ANALYSIS OF THE FOLLOWING POEMS : A DIRGE by SHELLEY - SNAKE GLIDES by
BOSLEY - LEISURE by DAVIES – THE WIND TAPPED LIKE A TIRED MAN – by
DICKINSON – DREAMS by HUGHES – MIRROR by PLATH
THE TOOLS OF DRAMA –THE FEATURES OF A DRAMATIC TEXT – TRAGEDY – THE
TRAGIC PLOT
THE ORIGINS AND THE MIDDLE AGES : THE MAKING OF THE NATION –
THE PLANTAGENETS
THE EPIC POEM : BEOWULF – PLOT AND TEXTS
THE MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE POEM :
GEOFFREY CHAUCER :life and works-THE CANTERBURY TALES-THE
PROLOGUE - THE PRIORESS- THE WIFE OF BATH-PROLOGUE- TALETHE MERCHANT – THE MERCHANT’S TALE
critical notes.Comparison between Chaucer and Boccaccio.
THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: table of main historical facts MICROCOSM AND
MACROCOSM
THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA-THE ELIZABETHAN PLAYHOUSE-devices of a
play-tragedy. THEATRE AS THE MIRROR OF LIFE
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE:life and works- FAUSTUS-texts-critical notes.
THE SONNET: SPENSER . ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME -WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet : Shall I compare thee . MY MISTRESS ‘ EYES Life and
works- HAMLET-texts- summary of the plot – THE DRAMATIST
ROMEO AND JULIET-text- summary of the plot. Critical notes.
THE PURITANS
JOHN MILTON:PARADISE LOST-texts- summary of the plot- life and works –
critical notes. Sonnet: ON HIS BLINDNESS. The universe of Milton and Dante.
Reading : The character of Satan.
THE AGE OF CHANGE- THE AUGUSTAN AGE –REASON AND COMMON
SENSE
THE NOVEL : The rise of the novel.
DANIEL DEFOE:life and works- ROBINSON CRUSOE- texts-summary of the plotcritical notes.
JONATHAN SWIFT:life and works-GULLIVER’S TRAVELS-texts-summary of the
plot- critical notes. A MODEST PROPOSAL
SAMUEL RICHARDSON:life and works –PAMELA -texts- summary of the plotcritical notes.
T
HE GOTHIC NOVEL
MARY SHELLEY: life and works – FRANKENSTEIN-texts - summary of the plotcritical notes.
Gli alunni
L’insegnante