Liceo 'C. Cavalleri' – Parabiago Classe 5^AS A.S. 2014-15 PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE Insegnante: Simonetta Andretto - Libro di testo: Spiazzi- Tavella- Layton, Performer, Culture & Literature 2 The nineteenth Century in Britain and America con e-book LINGUE ZANICHELLI Specification 8 THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT Literary context: The concept of sublime in E. Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry Emotion vs reason pp199-201 pp213-14-15 Authors and texts: The English Romantic Poetry The first generation of Romantic poets – The Manifesto of English Romanticism W. Wordsworth S. Coleridge Poems in Two Volumes Daffodils My heart leaps up p218 p219 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part 1- The Killing of the albatross p220 pp222-225 The second generation of Romantic poets G. G. Byron The Byronic Hero Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto IV- Apostrophe to the ocean (178/183/184) pp232-233 J. Keats A Letter to Richard Woodhouse - Oct. 27th, 1818 The poetical character copy Ode on a Grecian Urn (selection of verses) copy P.B. Shelley The political commitment England in 1819 copy Specification 10 COMING OF AGE Social- literary context: The Victorian Age –The Great ExhibitionThe Victorian Compromise The Victorian novel p285- p 290 – p 299 p300 Authors and texts: The Victorian Novel C. Dickens Specification 11 Oliver Twist Oliver wants some more p302 pp303-304 The humanitarian novel Hard Times Coketown p308 pp291-293 A TWO-FACED REALITY The British Empire p325 Poetry Rudyard Kipling The White Man’s Burden pp326-7 The theme of the double The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde The story of the door p338 p338 p340 The Victorian Novel R.L. Stevenson New aesthetic theories- Aestheticism-The concept of Art for Art’s Sake-The dandy pp347-350 O. Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Basil’s studio I would give my soul p352 p353 pp354-356 Victorian Drama O. Wilde G.B. Shaw A new comedy of manners The Importance of Being Earnest Mother’s worries (Act 1) video The drama of ideas Arms and the Man Reality versus Romance copy - Libro di testo: Spiazzi- Tavella- Layton, Performer, Culture & Literature 3 The Twentieth Century and the Present con e-book LINGUE ZANICHELLI Specification 13 THE DRUMS OF WAR The age of anxiety- The alienation of modern man- The objective correlative Authors and texts: Modern Poetry T.S. Eliot Specification 14 The Waste Land The Burial of the Dead (some lines) The Fire Sermon p432 p433 pp435-436 THE GREAT WATERSHED A deep cultural crisis- Modernism- The stream of consciousness technique- The interior monologue The Modern Novel J. Joyce Specification 16 G. Orwell Dubliners The Dead She was fast asleep Experimental novel Ulysses I said yes I will sermon (Molly’s monologue) p464 p469 text bank 106 A NEW WORLD ORDER The dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four Big Brother is watching you p531 p533 pp534-535 Post-War Drama S. Beckett The Theatre of the Absurd Waiting for Godot Waiting p543 p544 copy Parabiago, 7 giugno 2015 Gli studenti L’ insegnante ………………………….. ………………………….. S. Andretto