5BS inglese - Principe Umberto

LICEO SCIENTIFICO E LINGUISTICO STATALE “PRINCIPE UMBERTO” CT
Programma di Lingua e Letterature Inglese
Classe VB scientifico
Anno Scol. 2014-15
Docente: Luisa Cormaci
Testo adottato: Literary Hyperlinks
Thomson Maglioni
Vol. A, B
Black cat
THE PRE – ROMANTIC AGE
Early Romantic Poetry
Features of Early Romantic Poetry
Features of Early Romantic Prose.
THE ROMANTIC AGE
The Age of Revolutions..............................................................................................p 384
The industrial revolution, the French revolution, the Napoleonic wars...............p 385
Literature in the Romantic Age, poetic visions........................................................p 395
Characteristics of Romanticism, the first generation of Romantic poets, the second generation
of romantic poets..........................................................................................................p 399
Thomas Gray
(cenni)
William Wordsworth: life and works. The Lyrical Ballads and its Preface...................p 427
From Poems in two volumes
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”..............................................................................p 434
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: life and works. Primary and secondary imagination .......p 447
“The Rime of the ancient mariner”: content, stylistic features, interpretations.
From the poem
Extract 1
Extract 2
Cenni su “Kubla Khan”: origins of the poem, Coleridge’s revisions, a metaphor for poetic
creation...................................................................................................................................p 459
John Keats : life and works. Keats’s aesthetics..................................................................p 483
“La Belle Dame sans Merci”
(cenni)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”......................................................................................................p 489
THE VICTORIAN AGE
The Victorian political situation, Victorian reforms, the Victorian compromise, the class
consciousness of the workers, the Victorian empire ( photocopy)
The Age of the empire................................…………………………………….pag 10
The Victorian Novel………………………….……………………………………….pag 29
Charles Dickens : life and works................................................................................pag. 46
Oliver Twist – plot and features...................................................................................pag 49
Hard Times –plot and features..................................................................................pag 52
From Hard Times
“A man of realities”...........................................................................................pag. 53,54,55
The Pre – Raphaelite Brotherhood............................................................................pag 120
The Aesthetic movement and the Decadence (photocopy)
Oscar Wilde : life and works..........................................................................................pag 171
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Graded readers
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Plot and features of the novel..................................................................pag 172-73-74
From The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I would give my soul”......................................................pag 175-76
“Dorian’s death” ..................................(photocopy)
The Importance of Being Earnest- plot and features of the play
THE MODERN AGE
Modern literature..............................................................................................pag 219
Modernism and the novel............................................................................pag 224
Bergson e la durée......................................................................................pag226
Stream of consciousness fiction................................................................pag228
James Joyce : life and works ................................................................................pag. 252
Dubliners : structure and features.........................................................................pag 254
From “The dead”
“She was fast asleep”..............................................................................pag 256
Ulysses : features and plot.................................................................................pag 262
“Dubliners”
Young adults ELI Readers
Virginia Woolf : life and works.......................................................................pag 268
Mrs Dalloway :plot , features and themes......................................................pag 272
George Orwell :life and works..................................................................................pag 322
Nineteen eighty-four : plot, features and themes...................................................pag 325
From Nineteen eighty-four
“Big brother is watching you”…………………………………......…..…pag 325
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