Istituto “G. PAPI” – Pomigliano D’Arco
Programma di Lingua e Civiltà Inglese
Classe V sez. A –Liceo Linguistico- A.S. 2014/2015
Docente: Emanuela Vigilante
THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT:
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Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions
Social implications of industrialism
Emotion vs Reason
The supernatural setting
THE LITERARY CONTEXT:
 The Gothic Novel
 New trends in poetry
AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
 Thomas Gray
“Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”
 William Blake
“The Lamb”
 Mary Shelley
“Frankestein, or the Modern Prometheus”
THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT:
 From the Napoleonic wars to the Regency
 Unrest and repression
THE LITERARY CONTEXT:
 Reality and vision
 Imagination in the Romantic poets
 The language of sense impressions
AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
 William Wordsworth
“A certain colouring of imagination”
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Rime of the ancient Mariner” part I
 John Keats
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
 Jane Austen
“Pride and Prejudice” (Darcy’s proposal)
 Walter Scott
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
 Queen Victoria accession to the throne
 The later years of Queen Victoria’s reign
 The British Empire
THE LITERARY CONTEXT:
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A window looking into reality
The industrial setting
The cinematic technique
The detective story
Moral and social criticism
Faith and progress
Aestheticism and Decadence
AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
 Charles Dickens
“David Copperfield” (The first days at school)
“Bleak house”
 The Brontë Sisters
“Jane Eyre”
 R.L. Stevenson
“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
 Thomas Hardy
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
 Oscar Wilde
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
 George Bernard Shaw
THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT:
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From Edward VII to World War I
The Twenties and the Thirties
The Second World War
The age of anxiety
Revolt and experimentation
A new realism: The interior monologue
AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
 The War Poets
 Thomas Stearns Eliot
“The Waste Land”
 David Herbert Lawrence
“Sons and Lovers”
 James Joyce
“Dubliners”
 Virginia Woolf
 George Orwell
“Animal Farm”
“Nineteen-Eighty Four”
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
 Economic boom and decline
 The loss of the Empire
THE LITERARY CONTEXT:
 New trends in poetry
 The contemporary novel
AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
 Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd
La docente
Emanuela Vigilante