Liceo Scientifico “A. Labriola - Programma di Lingua e Letteratura

Liceo Scientifico “A. Labriola - Programma di Lingua e Letteratura Inglese
Classe V sez. C – Indirizzo: Scienze Applicate - A.S.2015-2016 - Prof.ssa Angela Mileo
Libri di testo:
- Performer Culture and Literature 2 – Spiazzi, Tavella, Layton – Zanichelli
- Performer Culture and Literature 3 – Spiazzi, Tavella, Layton – Zanichelli
The Pre-Romantic Age
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An age of revolutions – pag. 182-183
Industrial society – pag. 185
How child labour changed the world – pag. 185
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WILLIAM BLAKE and the victims of industrialization – pag. 186-187
(William Blake’s life – Blake the artist – Blake the poet – Blake the prophet – Complementary opposites
– Imagination and the poet – Blake’s interests in social problems – Style)
Poem “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Innocence): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag.
189
Poem “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Experience): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag.
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The American war of Independence – pag. 194-195
Milestones: 1776, the American Declaration of Independence – pag. 195
Insights: America’s Birthday – pag. 195
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The Gothic novel – pag. 202
Literary language: The Gothic novel – pag. 202
MARY SHELLEY and a new interest in science – pag. 203-204
(Mary Shelley’s life – Frankenstein (1818) The influence of science [linked to CLIL] – The story –
Literary influence – Narrative structure – Themes)
Extract from Frankenstein “The creation of the monster”: contextualization, reading and analysis –
pag. 205-206
The epistolary novel : M.Shelley and Foscolo (only introduction) – pag. 207
Extract from Frankenstein “Frankenstein and the monster”: contextualization, reading and analysis –
pag. 208
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The Romantic Age
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Is it Romantic? – pag. 212
Emotion vs reason – English Romanticism – pag. 213
A new sensibility – pag. 214
The emphasis on the individual – pag. 215
The first Generation of the Romantic Poets
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH and nature – pag. 216-217
(How the Romantics understood nature – A guide to the Romantic Understanding of Nature – William
Wordsworth’s life – Wordsworth and the relationship with nature – The importance of senses –
Recollection in tranquillity – The poet’s task – Milestones: 1798, “Lyrical Ballads” the Manifesto of
English Romanticism)
Poem “Daffodils”: reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 218
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Poem “My Heart Leaps Up”: reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 219
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE and sublime nature – pag. 220
(Coleridge’s life – Imagination and fancy – Coleridge’s view of nature)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) – pag. 221-222
(The story – The natural world – The characters – The Rime and traditional ballads)
Extract from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “The killing of the Albatross” – reading, paraphrases and
analysis – pag. 222-223-224-225
Extract from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “The Moral” – reading, paraphrases and analysis –
photocopies provided (final 16 lines of the ballad)
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The Second Generation of the Romantic Poets
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The Napoleonic Wars – pag. 229
Nature in the second generation of Romantic poets – pag. 230
JOHN KEATS and unchanging nature – pag. 234
(John keats’s life – The substance of his poetry – The role of imagination – Beauty and art – Negative
capability – Milestones: 1818, Keats’s Great Year)
Poem “Bright Star”: reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 235
The Victorian Age
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The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign – pag. 284-285
Milestones: 1851, the Great Exhibition – pag. 285
Life in the Victorian Town – pag. 290
Victorian Christmas – pag. 295
The Victorian compromise – pag. 299
The Victorian novel – pag. 300
Literary language: the Victorian novel – pag. 300
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CHARLES DICKENS and children – pag. 301-302
(Charles Dickens’s life – Oliver Twist (1827-39) – London life – The world of the workhouse – The
story)
Extract from Oliver Twist “Oliver wants some more”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag.
303-304
Extract from Oliver Twist “The confinement”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 322
Dickens and a critique of education – pag. 308
Hard Times (1854): The story – pag. 308
Extract from Hard Times “Coketown”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 291-292-293
Extract from Hard Times “The definition of a horse”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag.
309-310-311
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The British Empire – pag. 324-325
Milestones: 1877, Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India – pag. 325
The mission of the coloniser – pag. 326
Poem “The White Man’s Burden” (R. Kipling): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 326
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CHARLES DARWIN and evolution [linked to CLIL] – pag. 330
Milestones: 1871, Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex’ [linked to CLIL] –
pag. 330
Darwin vs God? [linked to CLIL] – pag. 331
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Extract from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex “Man’s Origin”: contextualization,
reading and analysis [linked to CLIL] – pag. 332
The English Aesthetic Movement
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New aesthetic theories – pag. 347
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – pag. 347
Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Movement – pag. 349
Literary Language: Aestheticism – pag. 349
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OSCAR WILDE: the brilliant artist and the dandy – pag. 351-352
(Oscar Wilde’s Life – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the theme of Beauty – The narrative
technique – Timeless beauty – The story)
Extract from The Picture of Dorian Gray ”Preface”: contextualization, reading and analysis –
photocopies provided
Extract from The Picture of Dorian Gray ”I would give my soul”: contextualization, reading and
analysis – pag. 354-355-356
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The Great War
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The Edwardian age – pag. 404-405
Securing the vote for women – pag. 406-407
World War I – pag. 408
Milestones: 11th November 1918, the day the guns fell silent – pag. 409
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THE WAR POETS – pag. 416-417
(Different attitudes to war – Rupert Brooke – Wilfred Owen – Siegfried Sassoon – Isaac Rosenberg)
Poem “The Soldier” (R. Brooke): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 418
Poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” (Wilfred Owen): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 419-420
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The Modern Age
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The Modernist Spirit – pag. 447
The modern novel – pag.448
Milestones: 1922,Ulysses – pag. 448
The stream of consciousness and the interior monologue – pag. 449
Literary language: The interior monologue – pag. 449
Extract from Ulysses (James Joyce) “The funeral”: an example of interior monologue – pag. 449
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JAMES JOYCE: a modernist writer – pag. 463
(James Joyce’s life – Ordinary Dublin – Style and technique)
Dubliners (1914) – pag. 464
(The origin of the collection – The use of epiphany – A pervasive theme: paralysis – Narrative
techniques)
Short story “Eveline” (from Dubliners): contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 465-466-467468
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The Bloomsbury Group – pag. 473
WIRGINIA WOOLF and “moments of being” – pag. 474
(Virginia Woolf’s life – A modernist novelist – Woolf vs Joyce)
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Mrs Dalloway (1925) – pag. 475
(The story – The setting – A changing society – The connection between Clarissa and Septimus)
Extract from Mrs Dalloway “Clarissa and Septimus”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag.
476-477-478
Moments of being: one moment in time – pag. 479
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Britain between the wars – pag. 514-515
World War II and after – pag. 520-521
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The dystopian novel – pag. 531
GEORGE ORWELL and the political dystopia – pag. 532
(George Orwell’s life – The artist’s development – Social themes)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) – pag. 533
(The story – A dystopian novel – Winston Smith – Themes)
Extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four “Big Brother is watching you”: contextualization, reading and
analysis – pag. 534-535
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Roma, lì 13/05/2016
Gli Alunni
L’Insegnante
Angela Mileo
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