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CLASSE V SEZ. A PROF:GIOVANNA FOSCHINI

ANNO SCOLASTICO 2014-2015

PROGRAMMA SVOLTO

TESTI UTILIZZATI: CONTINUITIES (vol. 1,2,3) Heaney-Montanari-Rizzo Ed. Lang

THE ROMANTIC AGE

Historical background: A time of ferment; the Hanoverian kings; the American war of independence; Effects of the French Revolution; The Napoleonic Wars; The Industrial Revolution; Reform and Repression.

Society and letters: The meaning of Romanticism; The Romantic Movement in Europe; Pre-Romanticism in England: a new sensibility; The English Romantics; A new response to Nature; the Sublime; Reactions to political revolutions; Alternative worlds; The artist and the power of imagination; New developments in Poetry.

_Mary Shelley :’ FRANKENSTEIN’: The Creature comes to life.

_William Wordsworth : ‘DAFFODILS’.

_Samuel Taylor Coleridge : da ‘THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER’:

‘Alone on a wide wide sea! (Part1).

Part 4

_Percy Bysshe Shelley : ‘ODE TO THE WEST WIND’.

THE VICTORIAN AGE

Historical background : An age of optimism and doubt; Growing democracy; The years of prosperity; The new political parties; The Crimean War; The expanding Empire; The Boer War.

Society and Letters: Faith in progress; Utilitarianism: gains and losses, Science and Religion; Evangelicalism; Victorian attitudes: earnestness and self-satisfaction; The Victorian family; The rise of Socialism; Prose: the Victorian novel; Dickens and the novel by instalments; The late Victorian novel; Contradictory literary tendencies; Poetry; Drama. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

GENRE FILE : The condition of England novel; The short story; The horror story.

_Charles Dickens:

da: ‘OLIVER TWIST’: ‘Please, sir, I want some more’.

da: ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ : A Broken Heart’.

_Robert Louis Stevenson: da ‘THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKILL AND MR HYDE’: ’Henry

Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case’.

_Oscar Wilde : da ‘THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY’: ‘Beauty is a form of Genius’.

THE MODERN AGE

Historical background: The end of an age and social changes in Britain; The First World War; The rise of dictatorship; The Spanish Civil War; The Second World War; The horrors of the German concentration camps.

Society and Letters: A mass society; The spirit of rupture; modernism; Changing views of society: Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology; The emancipation of women; Changing role of the writer; Cosmopolitans and exiles; Prose fiction: the first three decades; Prose: the Thirties and after; Poetry in the modern age; Theatre and the Irish literary Renaissance; Modern Arts.

GENRE FILE: The experimental novel; Free verse.

Virginia Woolf da: ‘TO THE LIGHTHOUSE’: ‘Will you not tell me just for once that you love

me?’

Thomas Stearns Eliot: da ‘THE WASTE LAND’: ‘The Burial of the Dead’.

George Orwell: da ’NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR’: ‘ The Big Brother is Watching you’

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