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I.I.S. “G.BRUNO – R.FRANCHETTI” - VENEZIA MESTRE

PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE A.S. 2014-2015

DOCENTE: Massimiliano De Villa

CLASSE: 3E

ORE DI LEZIONE SETTIMANALI: 3

Testi adottati:

Marina Spiazzi – Marina Tavella – Margaret Layton, Performer. Culture & Literature 2.

The Nineteenth Century in Britain and America, Zanichelli, Bologna 2012.

Marina Spiazzi – Marina Tavella – Margaret Layton, Performer. Culture & Literature 3.

The Twentieth Century and the Present, Zanichelli, Bologna 2013.

CONTENUTI DISCIPLINARI

a) Early Romanticism

- William Blake: life and works, features and themes, sources and influences, imagination

and symbolism, the poet-prophet, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

From Songs of Innocence and Experience:

- The Lamb

- The Tyger

b) The Romantic period

- Historical background:

The Hanoverians: George III (Napoleon), George IV (Catholic Emancipation – Metropolitan

Police), William IV (First Reform Bill – abolition of slavery – Factory Acts)

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- Social background:

Consequences of the Industrial revolution, Combination Acts, Luddities, the Peterloo

Massacre, Robert Owen, emigration, Trade Unions, position of women, abolition of slavery)

- Literary production:

The Romantic Literary Movement: democratic ideals, literary background

Poetry: language and verse form, task of the poet, features and themes, Imagination, Nature

(philosophical theories)

William Wordsworth: life and works, Lyrical Ballads (genesis, realism and poetry,

features), themes (childhood, nature)

From Lyrical Ballads:

Preface to the Second Edition (1800) – “A Certain Colouring of Imagination”

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

The Solitary Reaper

My Heart Leaps Up

Samuel T. Coleridge: life and works, features and themes, The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner, Fancy and Imagination, differences between Wordsworth and Coleridge

From Lyrical Ballads:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part I, part II, part VII)

From Biographia Literaria:

Genesis of the “Lyrical Ballads” (chapter XIV)

George Byron: life and works, features and themes, romantic and non-romantic elements,

the Byronic hero

From Lara:

The Byronic Hero (stanza XVII)

From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:

Apostrophe to the Ocean (canto IV, stanzas CLXXVIII-CLXXXIII)

Sunset in Venetia (canto IV, stanzas XXVII-XXIX)

Other poems:

So we’ll go no more a-roving

She Walks in Beauty

Percy B. Shelley: life and works, features and themes (freedom and love, idealism, lyricism

and symbolism, pantheism, nature and ecstasy)

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Ode to the West Wind

John Keats: life and works, features and themes (poetry as solace, beauty, negative

capability, ancient Greece, nature, the Middle Ages), Keats’s influence

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Bright Star

Letter to Fanny Brawne (March 1820)

Visione del film Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009)

Prose:

Jane Austen: life and works, features and themes (limitations and great qualities), parody of

Gothicism, literary importance

From Pride and Prejudice

Lettura, traduzione e commento dei capitoli I e XXXIV (“Darcy proposes to Elizabeth”)

- The American Romantic Movement:

Edgar Allan Poe: life and works, the poet and the Poetic Principle (Single effect – brevity),

the decadent romantic, the prose writer and the Tales, Tales of Ratiocination, Tales of

Imagination (themes and features), Poe’s influence

From Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque:

Lettura integrale e analisi del racconto The Masque of the Red Death

c) The Victorian Age

- Historical background:

The Hanoverians: Queen Victoria, inland policy (Chartism, Trade Union Act, Second

and Third Reform Bills, Labour Party, Ireland, Repeal of Corn Laws, Free Trade, Great

International Exhibition, social achievements), foreign policy (Indian Mutiny, British

Empire, The Boer War, the Crimean War), Edward VII (The Edwardian Age, reforms)

- Social background:

The Victorian Age and the Edwardian Age, the Oxford Movement, optimism, social

problems, the Victorian Compromise, Evangelicalism, Fabian Society, respectability, the

Victorian family, the Victorian house, philosophical currents, pessimism)

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- Literary production:

literary movements: Late Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Aestheticism,

Decadentism, three stages (Early Victorian – Mid-Victorian – Late Victorian)

Prose:

Fiction: the Victorian novel, causes of its flourishing, serial method, types of novels

Charles Dickens: life and works, features and themes (humour, pathos, the painter of

English life, Christmas, characters, social and humanitarian novels), early and later

novels, symbol and metaphor, limitations and merits

From The Pickwick Papers:

“An Important Proceeding of Mr. Pickwick” (chapter 12)

From A Christmas Carol:

“Scrooge’s Christmas” (chapter 1)

From Oliver Twist:

“Oliver wants some more” (chapter 2)

“Jacob’s Island” (chapter 50)

From Bleak House:

“Fog in London” (chapter 1)

From Hard Times:

“The definition of a horse” (chapter 2)

“Coketown” (chapter 5)

The Brontë Sisters: lives and works

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (plot, complexity, other features)

From Wuthering Heights:

“The Nature of Love” (chapter IX)

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (plot, characters and themes, a proto-feminist novel)

From Jane Eyre:

“Rochester” (chapter XVII)

Poetry: the major poets, the Pre-Raphaelites, Decadentism, the British Contribution to

Aestheticism

Alfred Tennyson: life and works, features and themes, dramatic monologue: differences

between Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning

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Ulysses: lettura e analisi (sources of the poem, lust for life, shift of focus)

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: features and themes

Drama:

Oscar Wilde: life and works, the decadent aesthete and the theme of beauty (The

Picture of Dorian Gray), the dramatist (The Importance of Being Earnest)

From The Picture of Dorian Gray:

The Preface

“Basil’s studio” (chapter 1)

“I would give my soul” (chapter 2)

Lettura integrale e analisi di The Importance of Being Earnest

d) The Twentieth Century

-Historical background:

George V (Insurance Act, Home Rule, The First World War, League of Nations, the

postwar years, General strike, the Irish Question, the Dominions, India), Edward VIII,

George VI (Spanish Civil War, The Second World War), Elizabeth II

- Social background:

the Edwardian Era: social hierarchy, The First World War and the postwar period:

consequences, family structure, the role of women, Modernism, the Second World War

and the postwar period: home front, consequences, Beveridge Report, Welfare State,

“rebel” groups, schooling, cultural revolution, European Economic Community,

Margaret Thatcher

- Literary production:

Prose:

Experimentation

Fiction: main causes of dissatisfaction

The Transition Period: the Edwardians (John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennet, Herbert

George Wells), exoticism (Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad), the psychological novel

(Henry James, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence)

Modernism, stream of consciousness, interior monologue

Virginia Woolf: life and works, features and themes (moments of being, narrative

technique, use of time), style, characters.

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Mrs. Dalloway: the story, the setting, a changing society, the connection between

Clarissa and Septimus

From Mrs. Dalloway:

“Clarissa and Septimus”

“Septimus’s Death”

To the Lighthouse: plot, structure, symbolism, use of time

From To the Lighthouse:

“The Brown Stocking”

James Joyce: life and works, Joyce’s conception of the artist, features and themes. First

period: Dubliners (epiphany, The Dead)

From Dubliners:

Eveline

The Dead: “I think he died for me”

Second period: new technique, Ulysses (structure, parallel with the Odissey, interior

monologue)

From Ulysses:

“Molly’s Monologue”

“Mr. Bloom’s Train of Thought”

Gli alunni Il docente

Massimiliano De Villa

Mestre, 05/06/2015


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