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“BRUNO MUNARI”
CLASSE 5D ARCHITETTURA E DESIGN
Lingua e Letteratura Inglese
anno scolastico 2008-2009
prof.ssa Adelina Rossini
Programma Svolto
Welcome back to school activity:
Controllo della comprensione dei due testi, in edizione semplificata, dati come lettura estiva:
• “The Secret Garden” - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924)
• “Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Attività propedeutica all’analisi dei due testi narrativi:
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The Art of Fiction (elementi strutturali di un testo narrativo): plot and story, narrator (first and third person)
point of view, characters (flat- round- stereotype- caricature), setting, themes and moral of a novel.
Detailed chapter analysis
Reading charts : redazione /compilazione di schede di lettura dei libri ed estratti esaminati.
FROM: “New Literary Landscapes – A Short Anthology of Literature in English”
The Augustan Age (1702-1760) revision /extension
- The rise of the novel in the 18th century:
- Defoe, Richardson, Fielding and their contribution to the new literary genre: the novel
THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)
The Historical Ground: - the age of revolutions – the Industrial revolution - From the French Revolution to
Napoleonic Wars – Radicalism in Britain, the road to reform – the end of slavery
Big Science: The Rise of Scientific Autonomy;
The Literary Ground:
- Romantic Poetry - Characteristics of Romanticism
- Landmarks: “Isn’t it Romantic”? “ the Sublime”
- The first generation of Romantic poets :Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth
- The second generation of Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley and Keats
- The novel in the Romantic Age (Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Gothic subversion
- William Wordsworth: life and works, The preface to Lyrical Ballads, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
- Samuel Coleridge: life and works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, stylistic features and interpretations;
extract analysis
- Mary Shelley: life and works, from Frankenstein: plot, features, two extracts analysis, relevance of the novel.
ART LINK
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Blake: Framing vision
Constable: Nature in its Elements
Turner: turbulent landscapes
THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)
The Historical Ground: -the Age of Empire -economy and society –the pressure for reform – the cost of living –
poverty and the poor laws- Managing the empire Landmarks: the arguments for and against Imperialism
the Victorian compromise- United States : birth of a nation
Big Science: Darwin and the theory of Evolution
The Literary Ground:
- The Victorian novel: a mirror of life
- Early Victorian Novelists (Dickens-Thackeray)
- Women’s voice (The Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell- George Eliot
- Late Victorian novelists (Thomas hardy, Henry James, Lewis Carroll
- Colonialist fiction and American prose in the 19th century
- Victorian Poetry: Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning
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Poetry in America
Victorian Drama: illusion of reality- Oscar Wilde vs George Bernard Shaw
Charles Dickens: life and work, Hard times: plot, features, two extracts analysis
Oscar Wilde: life and works,
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”: the preface, the plot, features and themes, extract analysis;
“The importance of being Earnest”: the plot, features, the comic character, the play as a social satire + film
ART LINK
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Victoria: the Business of empire
The Pre-Raphaelites and the Impressionists
John Everett Millais “Ophelia”, painting analysis
Dante Gabriel Rossetti + “Lady Lilith” painting analysis
THE MODERN AGE (1901-1945)
The Historical Ground: -A time of War- the last days of optimism, World War I (1914-1918), consequences of the
war, the inter-war years, World War II (1939-1945) The Holocaust; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; cultural transformation
in the early 20th century
The Literary Ground:
- Modern Literature, Modernism and the convergence of the Arts (the avant-gards)
- Modernism and the novel, Freud, Bergson and James
- Big science: psychology and the Modern Novel
- Stream of consciousness fiction (direct and indirect monologue9
- Other modernist: Lawrence and Conrad
- The continuity of the realist tradition (dystopian novels and detective stories)
- American fiction in the early 2oth century
- Modernist poetry: the roots, the War poets (Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon)
- Modernist poetry, features, Imagism and its influence on American Modernism, T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats
- James Joyce (1882-1914) life and works, Dubliners, focus on the text. “the Dead”: the plot, feature and themes
Extract analysis: the “epiphany” of Gretta and Gabriel
- George Orwell: life and works;
- “Animal Farm”: the historical background of the book, marxism, socialism, communism, fascism and
totalitarianism, the role of the writer according to Orwell,
- chapter by chapter analysis, the plot, features, characters, narrator, themes and the moral of the novel.
ART LINK
- Paul Nash (1889-1946): The machinery of Death – painting analysis: Totes Meer
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Picasso and the cubism; painting analysis: Weeping Woman
ARCHITECTURE
Revisione materiale dello scorso anno:
- Le Corbusier: the architect and designer. Fauteuil Modèle Petit Confort /Chaise Longue/ The Table
- Norman Foster: the architect/ designer: the Millennium Bridge/ The Great Court (British Museum) /Nomos Table
- glossary of building and architecture
- The Seven Wonders of Modern Architecture (1880-1930):
- The Houses of Parliament (London, GB), neo-gothic, architect Charles Barry (1795-1860)
- The Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) the world’s tallest iron building, engineer: A. Gustave Eiffel (81832-1923)
- Sagrada Familia (Barcellona, Spain), Art Nouveau (new art) architect: Antonì Gaudì (1852- 1926)
- Notre dame du Haut (Ronshamp, south-east France) architect : Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
- The Chrysler skyscraper (NY. USA), Art Deco, architect: William van alen (1883-1953)
- the Guggenheim Museum (NY. USA) architect Frank Lyod Wright (1867-1959)
- Sydney Opera House (Sydney Australia) Danish architect: JØrn utzon (1918-)
Si intende, compatibilmente con il tempo che rimane prima della fine della scuola, dare dei cenni sui principali stili
architettonici dei periodi storici e letterari esaminati.
L’insegnante
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i rappresentanti di classe
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Crema, 09/06/2009
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