PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
CLASSE 3^CL
LICEO CLASSICO
A.S.2015/16
Testi in uso: LITERARY HYPERLINKS B e LITERARY HYPERLINKS EXTENSION
Siti web di consultazione : prevalentemente www.sparknotes.com per argomentazioni
letterarie, altri da definire in base alle ricerche personali degli studenti.
THE VICTORIAN AGE
(5 ore)
The age of Empire: economy and society, the growth of industrial cities, reforms,
technological innovation, communication revolution, the cost of living, transformation of
labour, poverty and poor laws, the Victorian ideal, a time of new ideas, impact of
Darwin’s theories, uses and abuses of Darwin
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
(4 ore)
The Victorian novel
A mirror of life, Early Victorian novelists
TEMA: the female condition
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Da EXTENSION: Woman and society in literature, gender equality, the female
condition, women seen by women, campaign for women’s rights ( “a Vindication of
the Rights of Women” by Wollstonecraft, “Shakespeare’s sister” by Woolf, “Little
Red Riding Hood” by Carter, women and work, Marie Curie, Victorian women, the
fatal enchantress
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Da testi forniti dalla docente e ricerche degli student:: the Angel in the House vs
the fallen woman, conditions of labour women and children
Charles Dickens:
(5 ore)
life, Oliver Twist (plot and features, con parti di film – I want some more) , Hard Times
(plot and features, lettura di “a man of realities” visione di parti di film –, definition of a
horse), theory of utilitarianism.
Charlotte Bronte:
(5 ore)
Jane Eyre (plot and features, lettura brano “the madwoman in the attic”, visione di parti
del film di Zeffirelli) – themes, symbols, interpretations.
Thomas Hardy:
(5 ore)
Tess of the D’Ubervilles (plot and features, Hardy’s vision of the world, lettura “ a silent
accord”, visione di parti del film di Polanski)
The Ruined Maid (testo fornito dalla docente)
Alfred Tennyson:
(3 ore)
the Lady of Shalott (parti del poema fornite dalla docente)
Art link: the Pre-Raphaelites
(the Lady of Shalott in paintings by Waterhouse and Hunt)
Robert Louis Stevenson:
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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Oscar Wilde : the Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde: Ballad Of Reading Gaol (parti fornite dalla docente)
Victorian drama
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Oscar Wilde: The Importance Of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
TIME ZONE 6
THE AGE OF MODERNISM
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A time of war: WWI,the Russian revolution, the inter-war years, WWII the Holocaust,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Modern literature
Stream of consciousness fiction,
Bergson and La Durée
J. Conrad heart of darkness
J. Joyce
Eveline
G. Orwell 1984 and Animal farm
Deleuze the society of the spectacle
Time zone 7 THE COLD WAR
A. Carter
wolf alice
W. Soynka telephone conversation
Da testi forniti dalla docente
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H. Lee
TEMA:
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To kill a mockingbird ( film e parti fornite dalla docente)
Human Rights
Da EXTENSION: history of human rights, Sitting Bull, Gandhi,
M.L. King, Barak Obama
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Da ricerche degli studenti su siti web: main articles, themes, examples
Chioggia 1.11.2015
la docente
Susanna Mistretta