Programma svolto nella classe QUINTA SCIENTIFICO sez. H a/s Materia: LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE Prof. BIANCA LISSONI

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1 Pagina 1 di 5 Programma svolto nella classe QUINTA SCIENTIFICO sez. H a/s Materia: LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE Prof. BIANCA LISSONI Testi utilizzati: M.Ansaldo - VISITING LITERATURE B: From the Victorian Age to the Present Day ed. Petrini APPUNTI MATERIALE ONLINE (bl.uk/exploring the Victorians; Spark Notes; Wikipedia) FOTOCOPIE - ARTICOLI. Allegato: fascicolo con i testi non presenti sul libro. I link e gli appunti integrativi sono reperibili nella sezione DIDATTICA del registro elettronico THEMES : The social impact of industrialization: social and political legislation in the Victorian Age Victorian values and the Victorian Compromise British Imperialism, the British Empire in the 19th century The impact of new theories and philosophies on Victorian optimism The Irish Question Women's condition in the Victorian Age and the development of women's rights The English and European novel from realism to Modernism The theme of the double in 19th-century English literature The cultural impact of World War I and of new philosophies and studies. The origins and development of the American nation The American Dream and its collapse The urban landscape in19th/20th-century literature The gloomy world of dystopia THE VICTORIAN AGE. The 'Age of Optimism' and the 'Age of Doubt' The Spirit of the Age pp (fino a Fiction compresa) Historical Background: The Reform Bills Queen Victoria -The Social legislation The improvements in the scientific and technological fields England as 'the workshop of the world' The building of the railways - The British Empire: the different types of colonies - The Crimean War The Opium Wars - The Political Parties Socio-economic Background: Victorian values - The Victorian Compromise Victorian education - The social gaps Victorian cities The position of women Literary background:the Victorian novel (success, reading public, main types of novel). Documents (bl.uk/exploring the Victorians):The Great Exhibition; Darwin and the theory of evolution;health and Hygiene in the 19th century; Education in Victorian Britain

2 Pagina 2 di 5 Victorian essayists: John Ruskin, Charles Darwin Intercultural link pp.56-58: Realism, Naturalism, Naturalism in Italy Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist The serialization of novels extracts: Jacob s Island (fotocopia) Text 10 p.60-64: Lunch Time Movie lab: Oliver Twist (2005) Critical notes p.72 Robert Louis Stevenson the theme of the double The Strange Case of Dr.Jeckyll & Mr.Hyde pp extracts: Story of the Door (fotocopia) Text 22 pp (Jeckyll's Experiment) Critical notes p.105 The detective story: origins and main features (appunti) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appunti su Sherlock Holmes (fotocopia) The Aesthetic Movement: Beauty above all pp.106 The Arts and Crafts Movement (cenni) The Aesthetic Movement in Literature pp Critical notes p.125 Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray: plot summary The Preface p.111 (parti sottolineate) Life as a work of art: Fotocopie capitolo 11+ text 24 p.115 Victorian Drama p.130: general information about drama in the Victorian Age (libro+appunti) The new comedy of manners (Wilde): The Importance of Being Earnest Text 25 p.118 (Lady Bracknell s interview) + film The comedy of ideas (G.B.Shaw) G.B.Shaw p.132: appunti + critical notes p.135

3 Pagina 3 di 5 THE MODERN AGE Historical context pp appunti (A Heap of Broken Images) - The Irish Question1 pp (Origins, The Easter Rising, Michael Collins. The Irish Civil War and the division of Ireland (vd anche appunti) Modernism p.153 Modern Fiction pp (solo le parti sugli autori svolti) Fiction 5 pp : Stream of Consciousness Technique The Lost Generation and the Cosmopolitan Spirit pp appunti Realistic novel vs Modernist novels: plot - narrator - point of view - themes - treatment of time and place categories narrative technique: the interior monologue. JAMES JOYCE Life and works. The 'Irish Renaissance'. The influence of Jesuit education. The autobiographical novel 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'. The notion of 'paralysis'. Epiphanies. The 'interior monologue'. Dubliners: general information, language, style, themes. Eveline pp A Painful Case; the Dead (materiale online) Ulysses p.244 (information; the mythical method. The interior monologue) Critical notes pp T.S. ELIOT The Waste Land pp Unreal City pp (also: how the poem ends) Critical Notes pp Art lab p.94: De Chirico s Metaphysical City The objective correlative : Eliot and Montale pp.196 The changed vision of war: The War Poets. RUPERT BROOKE: The Soldier p.521 WILFRED OWEN : Dulce Et Decorum Est. (Fotocopia) THEME p.535: The Gloomy World of Dystopia : GEORGE ORWELL Utopian and dystopian fiction (appunti) 1984 : lettura integrale. Brani: This was London; Newspeak (fotocopia) Animal Farm: plot summary. A political allegory. Brave New World, Never Let Me Go (summaries)

4 Pagina 4 di 5 AMERICAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE (fotocopie+libro) The Growth of the Country - The Frontier - Slavery - The Civil War: The North and the South - The West: The Indian Rage - American Expansionism - Social changes in the South after the Civil War -The Ku-Klux-Klan - The North and the industrial expansion - The West Homesteaders The railway Document: Lewis and Clark s expedition The American Renaissance (meaning of the term; general information about the main authors) HERMAN MELVILLE: Moby Dick (main themes and literary influences) Brani: Call Me Ishmael (fotocopie) Epilogue. (Fotocopie) Film: Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956) NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: The Scarlet Letter (summary and main themes) WALT WHITMAN: Leaves of Grass (appunti e fotocopie) I Hear America Singing Song of the Open Road The American Twenties: The American Dream and its collapse - The Economic Boom Prohibition The Red Scare The Wall Street Crash The Great Depression The New Deal - The Lost Generation - The Italian translations of American writers F.S. FITZGERALD: The Great Gatsby lettura integrale T. 54 pp (The Party) Gatsby s funeral (fotocopia) Critical notes p.286 Movie lab: The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton, 1974) Articolo Corriere: Belli e dannati, come in un romanzo (R. La Capria)

5 Pagina 5 di 5 ERNEST HEMINGWAY p.287 A Farewell To Arms summary brano:there s Nothing Worse than War (fot.) The Sun Also Rises summary + T.56 pp Critical notes pp Desio, 8/06/2016 L insegnante (prof.ssa Bianca Lissoni) I rappresentanti degli studenti (Andrea Malerba, Chiara Nullo)