Programma di Lingua e Letteratura Inglese
a.s. 2013 / 2014
Classe 4 A L
Libro di testo: Performer, Culture and Literature 1 e 2 di M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella e M.
Layton, ed. Zanichelli
Historical background: A Time of Upheaval:
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The Civil War
Oliver Cromwell and the Ironsides
The Puritans
The war on witches
The development of human rights
The scientific revolution
The restoration of the monarchy
Literature
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John Milton: Satan’s speech
Satan in Milton and Dante
Historical background: Shaping the English Character:
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The birth of political parties
The Tories and the Whigs
Modern political parties
A golden age
The means for cultural debate
Two newspapers: ‘The Spectator’ and ‘Il Caffè’
Literature
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The rise of the novel
Daniel Defoe and the realistic novel
Robinson Crusoe: The Journal, Man Friday
Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel
Gulliver’s Travels: Gulliver and the Lilliputians
Historical background: An Age of Revolutions:
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Industrial society
How child labour changed the world
The American war of independence
The Napoleonic Wars
Literature
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William Blake and the victims of industrialization
Songs of innocence: Infant Joy, The Chimney Sweeper
Songs of experience: London, Infant Sorrow, The Chimney Sweeper
The Sublime: a new sensibility
The Gothic novel
Mary Shelley and a new interest in science
Frankenstein: The creation of the Monster
The epistolary novel: M. Shelley and Foscolo
Literature
The Romantic Spirit:
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Emotion vs reason
A new sensibility
The emphasis on the individual
William Wordsworth and nature
Lyrical Ballads: The Manifesto of English Romanticism
Daffodils, My Heart leaps up
Nature in Wordsworth and Leopardi
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and sublime nature
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Part I Lines 1 – 82)
Jane Austen and the theme of love
Pride and Prejudice: Darcy proposes to Elizabeth
Per ogni modulo dovranno essere ripresi letture ed esercizi, con particolare riguardo alle
attività finali di ogni capitolo, mirate alla sintesi dell’argomento.
Lo studio, inoltre, dovrà essere integrato da schemi e riassunti.
L’insegnante
Prof.ssa Leonella Pippi