Programma di Lingua Inglese

classe V° G

A.S. 2015/16

Docente : Prof.ssa Mulas Patrizia

Dal libro di testo Performer- Culture & literature 1+2 e Performer- Culture & Literature 3

Spiazzi-Tavella-Layton - Zanichelli

An age of Revolutions- Industrial society- How child labour changed the world-

William Blake and the victims of industrialisation.

Lettura e analisi della poesia “The chimney sweeper”

The long-term impact of the industrial revolution.

The American war of independence.

The Gothic novel-M. Shelley: life and works.Frankenstein or The Mo-

dern Prometheus : plot,origin of the novel,influence of science and

literary influences,narrative structure, the double.Lettura e analisi

del brano “ The creation of the monster.”

Emotion vs reason - English Romanticism- A new sensibility- The emphasis on the individual.

W.Wordsworth : life and works,The manifesto of English Romanticism,

man and nature,the importance of senses and memory,recollection

in tranquillity,the poet's task and style.

Lettura e analisi della poesia Daffodils.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : life, imagination and fancy, view of nature,

The Rime of the ancient mariner, lettura e analisi part 1 The killing of the

albatross.

The Napoleonic wars.

Jane Austen and the theme of love. Pride and prejudice, lettura brano

Darcy proposes to Elizabeth.

The Victorian Age :The first half of Queen Victoria ' s reign. Life in the Victorian town.

The victorian compromise,The victorian novel.

C. Dickens and children. Oliver Twist, London life,the story, the world of workhouses.

C. Lettura e analisi brano Oliver wants some more.

The role of the woman : angel or pioneer?

The British Empire. Charles Darwin and evolution.

R. L. Stevenson : Victorian hypocrisy and the double in literature. The strange case of

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,plot ,the double nature of setting,good and

evil,narrative technique,influences and interpretations. ( fotocopia )

Visione film.

Aestheticism and decadence. O. Wilde:life and works,the rebel and the dandy,artfor art's sake.

The picture of Dorian Gray: plot and allegorical meaning.

Lettura e analisi brano I would give my soul.

The Modern age : The Edwardian age and world war I .

A deep cultural crisis. The Modernist spirit.The modern novel.

J.Joyce: life and works,ordinary Dublin, style and technique.

a subjective perception of time,the impersonality of the artist.

Dubliners: origin of the collection,use of the epiphany,paralysis,narrative

technique. Lettura e analisi di Eveline.

V.Woolf :life and works, literary career,a modernist

novelist,Woolf vs Joyce. Mrs Dalloway:plot,the setting,characterisation,

Clarissa and Septimus. Lettura e analisi brano Clarissa and Septimus.