Liceo scientifico 'C. Cavalleri' – Parabiago
Classe 5^A LS A.S. 2013-14
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
Insegnante: Simonetta Andretto
Libro di testo: Spiazzi- Tavella, Only Connect … New Directions
From the Early Romantic Age to the Present Age
Zanichelli
Module 8 THE ROMANTIC AGE
Social- literary context
Authors and texts:
The Historical Novel D69
Walter Scott
The English Romantic Poetry
The concept of sublime in E. Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry (D10)
The first generation of Romantic poets – The Manifesto of English Romanticism –
W. Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
A Certain Colouring of Imagination D81-82
Poems in Two Volumes
Daffodils D85
My heart leaps up D93
S. Coleridge Biographia Literaria
Ch. XIV The plan of the ‘Lyrical Ballads’ copy
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner D98-108
Part 1- The Killing of the albatross
Part 3- Death and Life-in-death
Part 4- The Water Snakes
The second generation of Romantic poets
G. G. Byron The Byronic Hero
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Third Canto- Self-exiled Harold D115-116
P.B. Shelley The political commitment
England in 1819 D122
J. Keats A Letter to Richard Woodhouse - Oct. 27th, 1818
The poetical character copy
Ode on a Grecian Urn D129-130
Module 9 THE VICTORIAN AGE
Social- literary context
The Victorian Compromise
Authors and texts:
The Victorian Novel E20-21
C. Dickens The novel of formation
David Copperfield
Shall I ever forget those lessons? E47-48
The humanitarian novel
Hard Times
Coketown E54-56
T. Hardy Naturalism
Tess of the D' Urbervilles
Alec and Tess in the chase E78-81
O. Wilde Aestheticism and Decadence –
The concept of Art for Art’s Sake- The Dandy E31-32
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Preface E114
Basil Hallward E115-117
Dorian's death E120-123
Poetry
O. Wilde The social commitment
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Story of a Hanging (some stanzas) E128-130
Victorian Drama
O. Wilde A new comedy of manners
The Importance of Being Earnest E124-125
G.B. Shaw The drama of ideas
Arms and the Man
Reality versus Romance copy
Module 10 THE MODERN AGE
Social- literary context- The age of anxiety- Modernism- The stream of consciousness technique- The interior monologue
Authors and texts:
Modern Poetry
T.S. Eliot The Waste Land
The Burial of the Dead F57-58
The Fire Sermon F59-60
What the Thunder Said (some lines) F61-63
The Modern Novel
J. Joyce Dubliners
The Dead
She was fast asleep F147-148
Experimental novel
Ulysses
I said yes I will sermon (Molly’s monologue) F155-156
G. Orwell Dystopian novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four
This was London F208-209
Module 11 THE PRESENT AGE
Social- literary context
Authors and texts:
Post-War Drama
S. Beckett The Theatre of the Absurd
Waiting for Godot
Waiting G107-109
Parabiago, 7 giugno 2014