LICEO SCIENTIFICO “NOMENTANO” ROMA PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE DOCENTE: Antonella Lascaleia Classe V sez. F a.s. 2016/2017

• Libro di testo: Cattaneo De Flaviis - MILLENNIUM 1 - Signorelli Scuola Cattaneo De Flaviis - MILLENNIUM 2 - Signorelli Scuola

• Libri consultati: Spiazzi Tavella - ONLY CONNECT...NEW DIRECTIONS The Nineteenth Century – Zanichelli

Spiazzi Tavella - ONLY CONNECT...NEW DIRECTIONS The Twentieth Century – Zanichelli Heaney, Montanari, Rizzo - FACE TO FACE – vol.U ed. LANG

• Fotocopie, mappe concettuali e presentazioni in power point redatte dall'insegnante

• THE PRE-ROMANTIC AGE Literary period: The Sublime

• THE ROMANTIC AGE Historical Period: The reign of George IV and William IV

Literary Period: Romanticism The English Romantic Poetry W. Blake (Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The theory of the contraries; Imagination; The Child;the style) Text analysis: “The Lamb”d2 “The Tyger” d3 W. Wordsworth

(The subject of poetry; the language; the poet; the idea of Nature; Imagination; memory; childhood) Text analysis: “Preface” to The Lyrical Ballads (fotocopia) “Daffodils”d5 “Intimations of Immortality” d7 S. T. Coleridge

(Primary and Secondary Imagination; Fancy;the idea of Nature;the language and the use of the ballad; the poet)

Text analysis : “Kubla Khan” p. 382 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Part I, Part VII) d8, d9 P.B. Shelley (Poetry; Themes of Freedom and Love; Imagination; the Poet; Nature and Pantheism; the theme of Prometheus in “Prometheus Unbound “) Text analysis : “Ode to the West Wind” d13 “Prometheus Defies Jupiter”d14 J. Keats (Imagination; Beauty; Poetry; Ancient Greece; Nature; Negative Capability) Text analysis : “Ode on a Grecian Urn” d15 G. Gordon, Lord Byron (the Byronic hero) Text analysis: “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Stanzas XII, XIII, XV (fotocopia)

• THE VICTORIAN AGE Historical Period: The reign of Queen Victoria: Victorian values and reforms ;

The Victorian Compromise ; The Victorian Movements :Utilitarianism, Methodism, Evangelicalism, Darwinism ; Social Reforms.

Literary Period : The Victorian Novel

Charles Dickens (Features of his novels; Plots; Characters; Themes; Didactic Aim; Style; Reputation) Text analysis : “Oliver Is Taken to the Workhouse” e1 from Oliver Twist

“A Classroom Definition of a Horse”e2 from Hard Times “Coketown” e3

R. L. Stevenson (Features of his novels; The Theme of “good” and “evil”;Narrative Technique; the Double ; Influences and Interpretations) Text analysis : “ Jekyll Turns into Hyde” e12 from Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. “Jekyll Can No Longer Control Hyde” e13

Aestheticism and Decadence (W. Pater)

Oscar Wilde (Lifestyle;The Artist;the Art;the Cult of Beauty; the idea of Art for Art's sake; the Double, Oscar Wilde's comedies) Text analysis: “Preface” (fotocopia)

“Life as the Greatest of the Arts” e15 from The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When the Girls Realize They Are Both Engaged to Ernest” e16 from The Importance of Being Earnest

• THE MODERN AGE Historical Period: The Edwardian Age, World War I, The Twenties and the Thirties; World

War lI;The United States between the tw Literary Period: New ideas (Freud, Jung, Einstein, James, Bergson, Frazer) Modernism

The Modern Novel (Stream of Consciousness and Interior Monologue)

J.Joyce (Dublin, the Perception of Time, Epiphany, Paralysis and Escape, Mythical Method, Narrative Technique and Revolutionary Prose, Impersonality of the Artist)

Text analysis: “Eveline” (fotocopia) “I Think He Died for Me,”She answered f9 from The Dead “The Living and the Dead “ f10

from Dubliners “The funeral” p.145 (visual analysis) “I said yes I will yes” f12 from Ulysses Cenni su : Finnegans Wake

V. Woolf (The treatment of Time, Narrative technique, Oblivion and Memory, Symbolism)

Text analysis : “she Loved Life, London, This Moment of June f13” from Mrs. Dalloway “No Going to the Lighthouse” f14 from To The Lighthouse

G. Orwell (Critic of totalitarianism; the working class; the role of the artist; the role of the writer; influences)

Lettura e analisi di “Animal Farm” e “Nineteen Eighty-Four (fotocopie)

The Modern Poetry (Free verse and Imagism)

Ezra Pound Text analysis: “In a Station of the Metro” (fotocopia)

T. S. Eliot (Impersonality of the Artist; Mythical Method; New concept of history; New stylistic devices and techniques: Objective correlative)

Text analysis “The Burial of the Dead” f6 “Death by Water”f7 “What the Thunder Said” f8 from The Waste Land

• THE CONTEMPORARY AGE Historical Period: Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War,

Northern Ireland, M. Thatcher. Post-modern UK and USA Society, the young in the 60' Literay Period: Modernism to Postmodernism

Youth culture British Writers of Contemporary Age (poetry, novel, drama)

The Theatre of the Absurd S. Beckett ( the idea of time; the meaninglessness of life; the characters; the language and the lack of communication) Text analysis “Well, That Passed the Time” g1 from Waiting for Godot The Theatre of Anger J. Osborne (the anger; the anti-hero; the society; the language and the lack of communication)

Text analysis “Just Another Sunday Evening” g2 From Look Back in Anger

Roma, 13 maggio 2017 Gli alunni L'insegnante