LICEO SCIENTIFICO
Maria Ausiliatrice
ESAMI DI STATO
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
Anno scolastico 2014/15
Letteratura
Historical background of Preromanticism
Preromanticism: the Graveyard School of Poetry and the Gothic novel
The poets of the first romantic generation:
- William Wordsworth: the romantic poet of nature
- The Solitary Reaper and its romantic features
- To Daffodils
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Rime of the ancient Mariner (part one)
The poets of the second romantic generation:
- George Gordon Lord Byron and the Byronic hero
- P. B. Shelley: life and main works
- Ode to the west wind (stanzas I and V)
- Shelley and Naples
Jane Austen and the novel of manners
The Victorian Age
Charles Dickens and the Humanitarian novel
Hard Times and the educational system in the Victorian Age
From Hard Times: Murdering the innocents
Aestheticism and the ideal of Art for Art’s sake
Oscar Wilde and the Picture of Dorian Gray
Modernism and the extraordinary experimentation of 20th century literature
The War Poets
The stream of consciousness novel: a new conception of time and the interior
monologue
James Joyce: Ulysses and the stream of consciousness novel
Eveline and Dubliners
T.S. Eliot and modern poetry
From the Waste Land: What the thunder said
The theatre of the Absurd and S. Beckett
Waiting for Godot (end of Act II)
William Golding and Lord of the Flies
From Lord of the Flies chapter one
Gli allievi
L’Insegnante
LICEO SCIENZE UMANE
Maria Ausiliatrice
ESAMI DI STATO
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
Anno scolastico 2014/15
Letteratura
Historical background of Preromanticism
Preromanticism: the Graveyard School of Poetry and the Gothic novel
William Wordsworth: the romantic poet of nature
The Solitary Reaper and its romantic features
To Daffodils
George Gordon Lord Byron and the Byronic hero
P. B. Shelley: life and main works
Ode to the west wind (stanzas I and V)
Shelley and Naples
The Victorian Age
Charles Dickens and the Humanitarian novel
Hard Times and the educational system in the Victorian Age
Aestheticism and the ideal of Art for Art’s sake
Oscar Wilde and the Picture of Dorian Gray
Modernism and the extraordinary experimentation of 20th century literature
The stream of consciousness novel: a new conception of time and the interior
monologue
James Joyce: Ulysses and the stream of consciousness novel
Eveline and Dubliners
T.S. Eliot and modern poetry
From the Waste Land: What the thunder said
The theatre of the Absurd and S. Beckett
Waiting for Godot (end of Act II)
William Golding and Lord of the Flies
From Lord of the Flies chapter one
Gli allievi
L’Insegnante