I. T. E. S. R. VALTURIO - RIMINI

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1 I. T. E. S. R. VALTURIO - RIMINI PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CIVILTA INGLESE - a.s CLASSE : 5^ B Liceo economico aziendale (ex Brocca) INSEGNANTE: Roberta Castracane LIBRO DI TESTO: G. Thomson, S. Maglioni New Literary Landscapes, Ed. Black Cat THE VICTORIAN AGE ( ) The Historical Ground : The Age of Empire Economy and society The pressure for reform The cost of living Poverty and the Poor Laws Managing the empire The arguments for and against imperialism R. Kipling, The White Man s Burden (Art Link) Victoria: the business of Empire The Victorian compromise A time of change Darwin and the Theory of Evolution United States: birth of a nation Slavery and segregation The shaping of the American way of life Gandhi (photocopy) Si è visionato il film The Young Victoria ( di Jean-Marc Vallée, 2009) e il documentario Gandhi: One world The Literary Ground The Victorian Novel A mirror of life Early Victorian novelists

2 Women s voices Late Victorian novelists Colonialist fiction American prose in the 19 th century Victorian poetry A. Tennyson and R. Browning (cenni) Women poets (cenni) Pre-Raphaelite poets and artists (Art Link) D.G.Rossetti: Not as she is Poetry in America (cenni) Victorian drama Illusions of reality Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw (cenni) Charles Dickens Life and works Focus on Hard Times Thomas Gradgrind (extract from Hard Times) (Movie link) Dead Poets Society The school system in Great Britain and the USA (photocopies) Si è visionato il film Dead Poets Society Oscar Wilde Life and works Focus on The Picture of Dorian Gray After about a quarter of an hour... (extract from The Picture of Dorian Gray) Rappresentazione teatrale The Picture of Dorian Gray

3 THE MODERN AGE ( ) The Historical Ground : A time of war The last days of Victorian optimism World War I Consequences of the war The inter-war years World War II The Holocaust Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cultural transformation in the early 20 th century (Art Link) Nash The Machinery of Death The Literary Ground Modernism in Europe Modernism and the convergence of the arts (cenni) Modernism and the novel Freud, Bergson and James Stream of consciousness fiction Other Modernists: Lawrence and Conrad The continuity of the realist tradition American fiction in the early 20 th century (cenni) The roots of Modernist poetry The War Poets T.S.Eliot (cenni) Joseph Conrad Life and works Focus on Heart of Darkness (Movie Link) Apocalypse Now

4 E. M. Forster Life and works Focus on A Passage to India Do kindly tell us who these ladies are (extract from A Passage to India) James Joyce Life and works Dubliners Focus on The Dead She was fast asleep (extract from The Dead) George Orwell Life and works Focus on Nineteen Eighty-Four From Utopia to Dystopia (cenni) Animal Farm (photocopy) It was a bright cold day (extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four) THE CONTEMPORARY AGE (1945 and after) The Historical Ground: The post-war period The Cold War The Suez Crisis and the end of the British Empire The Welfare State The rise of Thatcherism The Falklands War and Thatcher's second term The end of Thatcherism New Labour The Irish question Social and cultural transformation in post-war America America after Kennedy

5 USA in the 50s : The Beat Generation, The Cold War (photocopy) USA in the 60s : Hippie counterculture, Protest movements, The Vietnam War (photocopy) 1963) Si è visionato il documentario J.F.Kennedy e il discorso Ich bin ein Berliner (June 26th, The Literary Ground Contemporary Drama: Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd, Osborne Samuel Beckett Life and works Focus on Waiting for Godot You re a hard man to get on with, Gogo (extract from Waiting for Godot) John Osborne Life and works Focus on Look back in Anger Why do I do this every Sunday? (extract from Look back in Anger) L insegnante Roberta Castracane Rimini, 3 giugno 2014

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