PROGRAMMA SVOLTO DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE - CLASSE V L
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2014/15
TESTI IN ADOZIONE: OBJECTIVE FIRST, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS; PERFORMER 2, 3 Culture and
Literature, ZANICHELLI
ACTIVATING GRAMMAR DIGITAL ED., LONGMAN.
MODULE 1: THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT
Historical and social background : The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution
English Romantic movement: general features
The Manifesto of English Romanticism
The first generation of the Romantic poets:
W.Wordsworth: Daffodils, My heart leaps up.. , Composed upon Westminster bridge.
S.T.Coleridge : from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( part 1-lines 1-82)
Jane Austen : from Pride and Prejudice (Darcy proposes to Elizabeth) analisi tematica e dei personaggi
principali
 ART LINK: Man- nature relationship in Romantic painting
( Turner: The shipwreck/ K.D.Friedrich: Wanderer above the sea of fog)
MODULE 2 : COMING OF AGE
The Victorian Age: historical social context
The Victorian compromise
C.Dickens
Hard Times: “Coketown”, “Nothing but facts”,” Definition of a horse” analisi tematica e di Mr Gradgrind
Oliver Twist: “Oliver wants some more”. Video activity : visione film. Analisi tematica e personaggi
principali.
MODULE 3: A TWO FACED REALITY/ THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT
Historical and social aspects
The aesthetic movement: general features
Oscar Wilde
Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray: reading and analysis
The Picture of Dorian Gray : from chapter 2 I would give my soul+ analysis of the final scene Dorian’s
death
The Importance of Being Earnest : scene Mother’s worries ( Lady Bracknell vs. Jack) /analisi tematica e
personaggi
Some aphorisms
De Profundis:lettura ed analisi di alcune parti (vedere fotocopie)
MODULE 4: INTO THE SELF/MODERNISM
World War I : art link Paul Nash,We are making a new world (painting analysis)
The war poets: S.Sassoon “ THEY”
Historical and social aspects: the age of deep cultural crisis ( Freud, Bergson)
Experimentation in all fields of art: modernism
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway: Clarissa and Septimus, Clarissa’s party. Analisi personaggi e tecnica narrativa.Visione film
James Joyce
Dubliners: Eveline (lettura integrale)/ analisi temi , personaggi e stile narrativo.
Art link The Scream by Munch
Ulysses:Lettura ed analisi di Molly’s thoughts.The anti –hero and the mythical method .The stream of
consciousness technique.
 ART LINK: Picasso and his experimentation in “Les Damoiselles D’Avignon”
S.Dalì: “The persistence of memory”
MODULE 5: THE DYSTOPIAN NOVEL
George Orwell
From 1984: Big Brother is watching you part 1, chapter 1, Newspeak, Brainwashing technique: lettura ed
analisi di temi e personaggi. Visione film
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World : lettura di alcuni brani The elementary class consciousness lesson , The Pavlovian room,
Mustapha and John The Savage (analisi di temi e personaggi).
MODULE 6: AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
William Golding
The Lord of The Flies / Visione film con approfondimenti : lettura di alcuni brani”Gift for the darkness” e
“The loss of innocence”. Analisi tematica e dei personaggi. Lettura documento “ The Fable” from Hot
Gates and other occasional pieces
Samuel Beckett and The Theatre of the Absurd
Waiting For Godot: from act 2 scene “ Why don’t we hang ourselves?....” analisi strutturale ,dei
personaggi, dell’uso sperimentale del linguaggio. La tragicommedia dell’uomo moderno.
LANGUAGE MODULE
Approfondimenti lessicali e morfosintattici
ed attività di livello B2
Perugia, 10 Giugno 2015
Prof.ssa Tiziana Fermani