LICEO SCIENTIFICO A. SERPIERI ANNO SCOLASTICO 2015/ 2016

Programma di Lingua e Letteratura Inglese

Classe VG

Prof. Paola de Girolamo

THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1832) Historical background.(cenni). Social and literary background.

PRE-ECHOES OF ROMANTICISM

William Blake (1757-1827)

From Songs of Innocence :The Chimney Sweeper

From Songs of Experience : The Chimney Sweeper, London

THE FIRST GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Daffodils

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

From Rime of the Ancient Mariner : parts I,II,IV,VII.

Biographia Literaria

THE SECOND GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS

John Keats ( 1795 - 1821)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

THE NOVEL IN THE ROMANTIC AGE: THE GOTHIC NOVEL,THE NOVEL OF MANNERS,THE HISTORICAL NOVEL

Mary Shelley ( 1797 - 1851)

Frankenstein : Letter IV, Chapters V and XIII

The myths of Prometheus and Faust

The Byronic Hero

THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901) Historical background(cenni) Social and literary background,the Victorian Compromise.

The novel in the Victorian Age

Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Wuthering Heights: Chapter IX and XVI

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

David Copperfield: Chapters IV and XI

Oliver Twist: Chapters II and III

Hard Times: Book I Chapter I, Book I Chapter V

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Chapters IV and X

THE VICTORIAN DECLINE (1868-1901)

Aestheticism in Europe and in England

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapters I , IX and XX

Wilde’s theatre :The Importance of Being Earnest : Act one ( Lady Bracknell's interview with Jack)

The “Double” as a literary topic in the literature of the 19th century

THE MODERN AGE (1901-1950): Historical, background ( cenni ) Social and literary background

The Novel in the modern age

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

Heart of Darkness : From chapters I and III

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Dubliners: Eveline,The Dead

Ulysses: Molly's interior monologue

Entro la fine dell'anno scolastico si intende trattare dei seguenti autori:

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

The Second Coming

Sailing to Byzantium

The Theatre of the Absurd

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Waiting for Godot

L’insegnante I rappresentanti degli studenti

Rimini , 9 /05 /2016