LICEO SCIENTIFICO “NOMENTANO” ROMA
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
DOCENTE: Antonella Lascaleia
Classe V sez. A
a.s. 2015/2016
Libro di testo: Spiazzi Tavella - ONLY CONNECT...NEW DIRECTIONS The Nineteenth Century - Zanichelli
Spiazzi Tavella - ONLY CONNECT...NEW DIRECTIONS The Twentieth Century - Zanichelli
Libri consultati: Cattaneo De Flaviis - MILLENNIUM 1 - Signorelli Scuola
Cattaneo De Flaviis - MILLENNIUM 2 - Signorelli Scuola
Heaney, Montanari, Rizzo - FACE TO FACE – vol.U ed. LANG
Fotocopie, appunti, mappe concettuali e presentazioni in power points redatti dall'insegnante
THE PRE-ROMANTIC AGE
Literary period: The Sublime
THE ROMANTIC AGE
Historical Period: The reign of George IV and William IV
Literary Period: Romanticism
The English Romantic Poetry
W. Blake
(Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The theory of the contraries; Imagination; The Child;the style)
Text analysis: “The Lamb”
“The Tyger”
W. Wordsworth
(The subject of poetry; the language; the poet; the idea of Nature; Imagination; memory; childhood)
Text analysis: “Preface” to The Lyrical Ballads
“Daffodils”
“My heart leaps up”
S. T. Coleridge
(Primary and Secondary Imagination; Fancy;the idea of Nature;the language and the use of the
ballad; the poet)
Text analysis : “Kubla Khan”
Reading:
“The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” (Structure and themes)
P.B. Shelley
(Poetry; Themes of Freedom and Love; Imagination; the Poet; Nature and Pantheism; the theme of
Prometheus in “Prometheus Unbound “)
Text analysis : “Ode to the West Wind”
J. Keats
(Imagination; Beauty; Poetry; Ancient Greece; Nature; Negative Capability)
Text analysis :
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
G. Gordon, Lord Byron
(the Byronic hero) Cenni
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Historical Period: The reign of Queen Victoria: Victorian values and reforms ;
The Victorian Compromise ; The Victorian Movements :Utilitarianism, Methodism,
Evangelicalism, Darwinism ; Social Reforms.
Literary Period :
The Victorian Novel
Charles Dickens
(Features of his novels; Plots; Characters; Themes; Didactic Aim; Style; Reputation)
Text analysis : “Oliver wants some more” from Oliver Twist
“Nothing but Facts”
from Hard Times
R. L. Stevenson
(Features of his novels; The Theme of “good” and “evil”;Narrative Technique; the Double ;
Influences and Interpretations)
Text analysis : “ Jekyll ‘s experiment” from Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Aestheticism and Decadence (W. Pater)
Oscar Wilde
(Lifestyle;The Artist;the Art;the Cult of Beauty; the idea of Art for Art's sake; the Double, Oscar
Wilde's comedies)
Text analysis: “Preface”
“Basil Hallward”
“Dorian’s hedonism”
from The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Mother’s worries”
from The Importance of Being Earnest
THE MODERN AGE
Historical Period: The Edwardian Age, World War I, The Twenties and the Thirties; World
War lI;The United States between the tw
Literary Period: New ideas (Freud, Jung, Einstein, James, Bergson, Frazer) Modernism
The Modern Novel (Stream of Consciousness and Interior Monologue)
J.Joyce
(Dublin, the Perception of Time, Epiphany, Paralysis and Escape, Mythical Method,
Technique and Revolutionary Prose, Impersonality of the Artist)
Text analysis: “Eveline”
“She was fast asleep” from The Dead
from Dubliners
“The funeral”
“I said yes I will sermon”
from Ulysses
Cenni su :
Finnegans Wake
V. Woolf
(The treatment of Time, Narrative technique, Oblivion and Memory, Symbolism)
Text analysis : “Clarissa and Septimus” from Mrs. Dalloway
“My dear, stand still”
from To The Lighthouse
G. Orwell
(Critic of totalitarianism; the working class; the role of the artist; the role of the writer;
Narrative
influences)
Lettura e analisi di “Animal Farm” e “Nineteen Eighty-Four (fotocopie)
Text analysis: “This was London”
“Newspeak”
From Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Modern Poetry (Free verse and Imagism)
Ezra Pound
Text analysis: “In a Station of the Metro” (fotocopia)
T. S. Eliot
(Impersonality of the Artist; Mythical Method; New concept of history; New stylistic devices and
techniques: Objective correlative)
Text analysis “The Burial of the Dead”
“The Fire Sermon”
“What the Thunder Said”
from The Waste Land
THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
Historical Period: Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War,
Northern Ireland, M. Thatcher. Post-modern UK and USA Society, the young in the 60'
Literay Period: Modernism to Postmodernism
Youth culture
British Writers of Contemporary Age (poetry, novel, drama)
The Theatre of the Absurd
S. Beckett
( the idea of time; the meaninglessness of life; the characters; the language and the lack of communication)
Text analysis “We’ll, come back tomorrow”
“Waiting”
from Waiting for Godot
The Theatre of Anger
J. Osborne
(the anger; the anti-hero; the society; the language and the lack of communication)
Text analysis “Boring Sundays”
From Look Back in Anger
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