CLASSE 4E A.S. 2015 – 2016 LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE

CLASSE 4E
A.S. 2015 – 2016
LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
Programma svolto
Prof. ssa M. ANTONIETTA SCIORTINO
Testi: Spiazzi, Tavella, Only Connect…New Directions , Ed. Zanichelli vol.1/vol.2
Shakespeare the dramatist:
 Reading and Analysis of ‘Hamlet’
 Macbeth : Plot, themes and features.
– Macbeth: Duncan’s murder
The Puritan Age:
 Charles I’s Reign
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The Civil War and the Commonwealth
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The Puritan Mind
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From Celebration to Introspection
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Metaphysical Poetry
 John Milton
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Paradise Lost: ‘Satan’s Speech’
The Restoration:
 The Restoration of the Monarchy
 The Glorious Revolution
 Scientific Rigour and Intellectual Clarity
 The Enjoyment of the senses
 The Features of a Comedy
 William Congreve
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The Way of the World: ‘The sealing of the deed’
The Augustan Age
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The Early Hanoverians
Reason and Sense
Journalism and Coffee houses
Artifice and Real Life: a Survey of Augustan Literature
The Rise of the Novel
Introduction to fiction as a genre
The features of a narrative text
Satire, irony and humor
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
– Robinson Crusoe: ‘Man Friday’
– Moll Flanders: ‘Molly becomes a thief’
 J.Swift
– A modest Proposal
 S. Richardson
The Early Romantic Age
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Britain and America
Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions
Industrial Society
Emotion vs Reason
New Trends in Poetry
The Gothic Novel
Thomas Gray
Roma 30.05 2016
Il Docente
Prof.ssa M.A. Sciortino
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