Anno Scolastico 2014/15 Classe VB LS Docente: Prof.Ssa Emma Pompei
Programma di Lingua e Civiltà Inglese
Anno scolastico 2014/15 Classe VB LS Docente: Prof.ssa Emma Pompei
Dai testi in adozione:
M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, Layton “Performer Culture & Literature 2” con e-book ZANICHELLI
M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, Layton “Performer Culture & Literature 3” con e-book ZANICHELLI
THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT:
Literature: Emotion vs Reason, A new sensibility, the emphasis on the individual
William Wordsworth: the relationship with nature, the importance of the senses, recollection in tranquility,
the poet’s task;
“Lyrical Ballads”, the Manifesto of English Romanticism (Milestones)
“Daffoldils” (text analysis)
Samuel T. Coloeridge: Coleridge’s view of nature
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: the natural world, “The Rime” and the traditional ballad
“The Killing of the Albatross” (text analysis)
“Farewell, Farewell…”: the moral.
Iron Maiden, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: ascolto ballata ispirata al poema di Coleridge.
Jane Austen: The debt to the 18th century, the national marriage market, Austen’s treatment of love
“Pride and Prejudice” :”Darcy proposes to Elizabeth” (text analysis)
COMING OF AGE
The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign, The Great Exhibition (Milestones)
Life in the Victorian town: “Coketown” from “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens (from line 1 to line 25)
The Victorian compromise
The Victorian novel
Victorian education
The role of the woman: angel or pioneer?
Charles Dickens
- and children: “Oliver Twist”, the story, London life, the world of workhouses
“Oliver wants some more” (text analysis)
- and the theme of education: “The definition of a horse” from “Hard Times” (text analysis)
A TWO-FACED REALITY
The British Empire
The mission of the coloniser: “The White Man’s Burden” from “The White Man’s Burden” by R. Kipling
Charles Darwin and evolution
Darwin vs God (reading)
Crime and violence
New aesthetic theories
Aestheticism
Thomas Hardy: Hardy’s deterministic view , Hardy’s Wessex, main themes, structure and narrative tecnique
Thomas Hardy (Critical Notes) : fotocopia fornita dall’insegnante
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles”: “Alec and Tess”, text analysis
Robert L. Stevenson: “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, the story, the theme of the double
“The Story of the door”, text analysis
“The Search for Hyde”, text analysis
Oscar Wilde: the brilliant artist and the dandy.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” and the theme of beauty: narrative technique, timeless beauty.
“Basil’s studio” ( text analysis)
“I would give my soul “ (text analysis)
THE DRUMS OF WAR
The Edwardian age
World War I
Modern poetry: tradition and experimentation
The War Poets: Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”, text analysis
Wilfred Owen: “Dulce et Decorum Est”
THE GREAT WATERSHED
A deep cultural crisis
Sigmund Freud a window on the unconscious: Freud and the psyche
The Modernist Spirit
The modern novel
The stream of the consciousness and the interior monologue:
James Joyce“The funeral” from Ulysses
James Joyce: a modernist writer. Ordinary Dublin, style and technique.
“Dubliners”: the origin of the collection, the use of epiphany, a pervasive theme: paralysis,
narrative techniques;
“Eveline”: text analysis
“Gabriel’s epiphany” from “The Dead” : text analysis.
Gli studenti La docente
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