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PROGRAMMA SVOLTO

ANNO SCOLASTICO 2014/2015

CLASSE 3^ SEZ. B PROF. Sira Mandalà MATERIA Lingua e Letteratura Inglese Dai testi Continuities, ed. LANG - volumes 2 and 3, sono state trattate le seguenti sezioni: The Romantic Age, The Victorian Age, The Modern Age. I passi di seguito riportati sono quelli presenti nei libri di testo, mentre i testi contrassegnati da asterisco sono stati forniti agli studenti su fotocopia o presentati tramite proiezione Power Point.

UDA 1, settembre – novembre 2014 IL PROGRAMMA È STATO AVVIATO DA UNA SEZIONE INTRODUTTIVA AL ROMANTICISMO, CHE NON COSTITUISCE PARTE INTEGRANTE DELLO STESSO:

LEAD-IN: THE CHANGING VISION OF NATURESubdued and Instrumental Nature Prose DANIEL DEFOE from Robinson Crusoe, Experiments in sowing* Poetry ALEXANDER POPEfrom Windsor Forest * A New Sensibility Prose HORACE WALPOLE from The Castle of Otranto, (THE ROMANTIC AGE) ANN RADCLIFFE from The Mysteries of Udolpho (THE ROMANTIC AGE, ‘A gloomy and sublime object’ p. 41) MARY SHELLEY from Frankenstein (THE ROMANTIC AGE, OVERVIEW, p. 114) Poetry OLIVER GOLDSMITHfrom The Deserted Village* THOMAS GRAY from Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard (THE ROMANTIC AGE )

THE ROMANTIC AGE

da Continuities - volume 2

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The Chimney Sweeper*, from Songs of Innocence William Blake The Lamb William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience (The role of imagination - Innocence and experience - Blake’s dualism) The Fly William Blake (INROADS, The Roots of Ecological Thinking, p.286) The Chimney Sweeper*, from Songs of Experience William Blake The Tyger William Blake London William Blake THE IMAGE: Elohim Creating Adam; Blake’s illustrations of his poems. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (COMPARING TEXTS, p.62) William Wordsworth Daffodils William Wordsworth THE IMAGE: pictures of spontaneous daffodils in the Lake District Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (FACE TO FACE, p. 119) William Wordsworth Poetry and the Poet, from Preface to Lyrical Ballads* William Wordsworth The Rainbow (My Heart Leaps Up) William Wordsworth The poet of Nature, ‘Spots in Time’, Poetry and imagination, Childhood: a major theme (pp. 40-42) THE IMAGE: A Cornfield, The Hay Wain, e Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by J. Constable COMPARING LITERATURES: William Wordsworth and Giovanni Pascoli The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge THE VIDEO: Orson Welles and Larry Jordan: Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1977 THE IMAGE: Seastorms by J.M.W. Turner; Gustav Dore’s illustrations of The Rime England in 1819* Percy Bysshe Shelley HISTORY: Peterloo Massacre Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley THE DOCUMENT: My Proof of Heaven, Newsweek October 15, 2012 THE THEME: Death and rebirth THE IMAGE: Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps and Rain Steam and Speed, by J.M.W. Turner

UDA 2, Novembre - dicembre 2014 A Vindication of the Rights of Women*

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Mary Wollstoncraft A Room of One’s Own * Virgina Woolf HISTORY: the suffragettes’ movement THE SONG: Sister Suffragette by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman (from Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins) THE PRESS: Women on Top. No thanks to Men*, Newsweek, June 25, 2012 ROMANTIC THEMES: Nature, Imagination, Childhood, HISTORY: The Agricultural / Industrial Revolutions; the social-economical context and its impact on the Romantic poets

UDA 3, gennaio – febbraio 2015 THE VICTORIAN AGE MULTIMEDIA ZONE: Charles Dickens’ Animation, www.bbc.co.uk A Christmas Carol, An act of charity* Charles Dickens THE THEME: The social context, The poor Laws, The Victorian sense of decorum and propriety, An age of contrasts LISTENING TEXT: Rochester celebrates Dickens, Speak Up - December 2006 Oliver Twist, Chapter 1* FOCUS ON: Victorian hospitals, parishes and workhouses Oliver Twist, “Please Sir, I want some more” Charles Dickens Hard Times, Mr Bounderby* Charles Dickens Hard Times, Coketown* Charles Dickens Hard Times, Facts, facts, facts * Charles Dickens David Copperfield, “No sign in my behalf” (INROADS – Work, p. 308) Charles Dickens Bleak House, in Chancery* Charles Dickens Why Do You Like Miss Austen?* (introduction to the Penguin edition of Sense and Sensibility) Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, at Gateshead Hall* (from, www.literature.org , chapters 1,4) Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, Rochester* Charlotte Brontë ECHOES: The Byronic hero Jane Eyre, A Dramatic Incident* Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, Beyond conventionalities Charlotte Brontë

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Jane Eyre, That Is My Wife (p. 196 ff) Charlotte Brontë THEMES, MOTIFS AND SYMBOLS: a woman’s dignity and independence; the red room; the fire; madness and exoticism, Jane’s double- Bertha Mason; Gothic, Romantic and Victorian elements HISTORY: Victorian governesses THE FILM: Jane Eyre, by Susanna White, 2006 THE IMAGE: Haworth and the Brontë family (pictures from Yorkshire)*

UDA 4, marzo – aprile 2015 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde THEMES, MOTIFS AND SYMBOLS: The purpose of art, the supremacy of youth and beauty, the superficial nature of society, the negative consequence of influence, the picture, homoerotic male relationships, the opium den, James Vane, the Yellow Book THE DOCUMENT: Letter from the Marquess of Queensberry to Lord Douglas* LISTENING TEXT: The Importance of Being Oscar*, from Speak Up, January 2005 A Tragic End*, from De Profundis (reading and commenting excerpts) Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol* Oscar Wilde THE THEME: From triumph to despair; The theme of betrayal. A plea for justice and human understanding READING TEXT: A Man of Lasting Importance*, from Time Magazine– June 19, 1995 THE SONG: La ballata del Michè, Fabrizio De Andrè Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Tess’s Seduction, Chapters XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV) * Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles (‘Do You Think We Shall Meet Again After We Are Dead?’) Thomas Hardy

THE FILM: Tess, by Roman Polanski, 1979 Jude the Obscure (Done because we are too menny)* Thomas Hardy THE THEME: Immanent Will and chance, social determinism, socialism The Man He Killed* Thomas Hardy THE THEME: War and chance THE SONG: La guerra di Piero, Fabrizio De Andrè THE MODERN AGE da Continuities – volume 3 A WORLD AT WAR The Call, War Girls* Jessie Pope In Flanders Fields* John Mc Crae

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The Soldier* Rupert Brooke “They”* Sigfried Sassoon THE DOCUMENT: Mother's Day Proclamation – 1870*, by Julia Ward Howe Glory of Women* Sigfried Sassoon The Last Laugh* Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est* Wilfred Owen THE PRESS: Guttering, chocking, drowning, The Economist, 27 August 2013 THE THEME: The nightmare of trench warfare THE IMAGE: Art and Literature During WW1 (UDA di classe n.1, Gli intellettuali di fronte alla prima guerra mondiale) *

UDA 5, aprile – giugno 2015

AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTIES The Waste Land (The Burial of the Dead)* (only some excerpts at p. 102 ff) T.S. Eliot THE THEMES: The shadow of war, a sterile land, a symphony of voices, a modernist poem, the mythical method, realism and symbolism, ‘objective correlative’ and ‘sensuous thought’ ECHOES: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer The Limbo of The Waste Land (S. Mandalà, in Il tempo vissuto - Gruppo di studi danteschi, Liceo Stellini 2009/2010) The Waste Land (What the Thunder Said)* - from Literary Maps, ed. Carlo Signorelli T.S. Eliot THE THEME: Sterility and aridity, the Mythical method. The Hollow Men – part I* (Mistah Kurtz—he dead - A penny for the Old Guy) T.S. Eliot Journey of the Magi* T.S. Eliot A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Stephen’s Refusal to ‘Admit’, p. 63 ff ) A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * ( from Holyhead to Tara) James Joyce Eveline*, from Dubliners James Joyce The Dead, from Dubliners (Snow was general all over Ireland , p. 66 ff) The Dead, from Dubliners* (West Briton, If I were a painter, Michael Furey) James Joyce THE IMAGE: Study After Velazquez’ Portrait of Pope Innocent X, by Francis Bacon THE THEME: Stories of collective paralysis, epiphany, alienation, naturalism and symbolism, the mythical method THE DOCUMENT: Joyce’s Trieste, RAI UNO – Educational, Magazzini Einstein Carl Gustav Jung’s letter to Joyce Ulysses, Molly’s monologues (‘What do they ask us to marry them for’; ‘goodbye to my sleep for this night’)*

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James Joyce Ulysses (Nausicaa)* James Joyce THE IMAGE: Les Damoiselles d’Avignon*, by P. Picasso (hints) Tarry Easty* - Loggione form Giacomo Joyce (at Teatro Verdi in Trieste) James Joyce Boraborayellers*, from Finnegans’ Wake (an idiosyncratic language) James Joyce THE CONTEMPORARY AGE THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD Waiting for Godot (clips from Beckett on film, directed by Aileen McGroddy 2001 Samuel Beckett Play (film by Anthony Minghella, 2000, www.youtube.com) Samuel Beckett THE THEME: loneliness and human dependence, incommunicability, the meaninglessness of human existence ECHOES: Play and La selva dei suicidi, Inferno XIII Il 2 dicembre 2014, la classe ha partecipato a un laboratorio teatrale in inglese sul tema Dystopian Novel (Huxley and Orwell) con l’attore e registra Brian Ayres. Udine, lì 11 giugno 2015 Il Docente Gli studenti