Prof. CHIARA MALANDRUCCO

PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE

CLASSE V SEZ H

Anno scolastico 2017/2018

THE ROMANTIC AGE

  • Historical and social context of the period D 54/55
  • The industrial revolution
  • William Wordsworth: D78/7980
  • Life and works
  • The Manifesto of English Romanticism
  • Man and nature
  • Preface to “Lyrical Ballads” D 81
  • “Daffodils” D85
  • “Composedupon Westminster Bridge” D86
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley: D 119/120/D121
  • A tempestuous life
  • His main themes: freedom and love
  • The role of imagination
  • Nature
  • England in 1819 (From “the politics of literary culture and the case of Romanitc historicism”) D121
  • “England in 1819” D122
  • “Ode to the west wind” D123
  • The novel of manners D66
  • Introduction to Jane Austen – life and works D136
  • Critic’s corner”Class” D138

THE VICTORIAN AGE:

  • The early Victorian Age E4/E5/E6
  • The later years of Queen Victoria’s reign E7/9
  • The Victorian compromise E14/E15/E16
  • The Victorian novel E20/E21
  • Types of novels E22
  • The industrial setting E 24/E25
  • Aestheticism and DecadenceE31/32
  • Charles Dickens:
  • Life and works E37/38
  • The plots of Dickens’snovels
  • Characters
  • A didacticaim
  • Style and reputation
  • “Oliver Twist”
  • Oliver wants some more E41
  • Decadentism: main features in arts
  • Aestheticism and Decadence E31/E32
  • Oscar Wilde: E110/E111
  • Life and works
  • The rebel and the dandy
  • Art for Art’ssake
  • “The picture of Dorian Gray” E112/E113
  • Plot
  • Allegoricalmeaning
  • The Preface E114
  • ” Basil Hallward” and from Il Piacere “Andrea Sperelli” (fotocopie)

Walt Whitman

  • Life and works E143/E144
  • “Song of myself” E146/E147

THE MODERN AGE

  • The Edwardian Age F4/F5
  • The Age of anxiety F14/FF15/F16
  • Modernism F17/F18
  • The modernnovel: F22/F23
  • Internal monologue and stream of consciousness as new written techniques F24/F25

Edward Morgen Forster

Forster and modernism Critic’s corner F114

  • Life and works : main themesF113
  • “Passage to India” F126/F127
  • “Chandrapore” F128
  • “Aziz e Mrs Moore” F130/131/132/133/134
  • James Joyce:
  • Life and works F138/139
  • OrdinaryDublin
  • The rebellionagainst the Church
  • A pooreye-sight
  • A subjectiveperception of time
  • The impersonality of the artist
  • “Dubliners” F141/142
  • “Eveline” (from “Dubliners”) F143/144/145
  • Ulysses F152/153
  • “Molly’smonologue” (from “Ulysses”) F155
  • “The funeral” (from “Ulysses”) D154
  • Virginia Woolf:
  • Life and works F157/158
  • The Bloomsburygroup
  • The literary career
  • A Modernistnovelist
  • Woolf vs Joyce
  • “Mrs Dalloway”- the plot F159/160
  • “Clarissa and Septimus” (from “Mrs Dalloway”) F161/162/163
  • George Orwell:
  • Life and works
  • First-handexperiences
  • An influential voice of the 20th century
  • The artist’sdevelopment
  • Social themes
  • “ThiswasLondon” (from “1984”)
  • “Newspeak”

The American Novel

  • John Steinbeck F230
  • The Grapes of Wrath

A novel about the Great Depression F231/232

Rain. Floods.Winter F233

Modernism to Postmodernism F236

  • Films:
  • “HiddenFigures” e analisi del testo dal Time relativo alla critica sul film
  • “The Great Gatsby”
  • “The children who built Britain” BBC documentary

IL DOCENTE GLI STUDENTI

Prof. Chiara Malandrucco