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A. S. 2011-2012 Classe V sez. A PROGRAMMA SVOLTO - INGLESE
Testi in adozione: R. Marinoni Mingazzini – L. Salmoiraghi, Witness to the Times
Compact, Principato, Voll. I - II - III
EARLY ROMANTICISM
Historical and social background;
The Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions;
The literary context and production;
W. Blake (1757-1827): Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Lamb,
The Tyger, Nurse’s Song; general characteristics and themes;
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Historical and social background;
The literary production;
W. Wordsworth (1770-1850): I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary
Reaper; general features and themes;
S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Part I, Part II,
Parts III, IV, V, VI (summaries), Part VII); Kubla Khan; general characteristics and
themes; Primary and Secondary Imagination;
J. Keats (1795-1821): Ode on a Grecian Urn; general characteristics and themes;
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Historical and social background;
The literary production;
The Victorian Compromise;
Documentary on Victorian Britain; video on ‘London Underground’ in lingua
originale;
Ch. Dickens (1812-1870): Oliver Twist, Lunch Time and video; general features
and themes;
M. Shelley (1797-1851): Frankenstein;
O. Wilde (1854-1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian’s death; The
Importance of Being Earnest, My parents lost me; Video ‘Wilde’; Video ‘The
Importance of Being Earnest’ in lingua originale; Decadentism;
E. Dickinson (1830-1886): There is a solitude; Wild nights;
THE AGE OF MODERNISM
Historical and social background;
Literary production;
The stream of consciousness; Bergson’s “durée”, The Interior Monologue;
J. Joyce (1882-1941): Dubliners: The Dead; Ulysses: Molly’s monologue;
general characteristics and themes;
George Orwell (1903-1950): Animal Farm; Nineteen-Eighty-Four video; general
features;
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): The Waste Land;
The Theatre of the Absurd.
Ventimiglia, 14 maggio 2012
L’insegnante
Rosa Oddone