- Managing the Empire ( ) - Victorian Era: General Introduction (materiale su DropBox)

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1 Literature and Culture of the British Isles 1a. The Victorian Age ( ) History: The Age of Empire - Economy and society (154) - The Pressure for reform (156) - Technological innovations (157) - Managing the Empire ( ) - Victorian Era: General Introduction (materiale su DropBox) Culture & Society: Victorian Literature - A time of new ideas (167) - The impact of Darwin s theories (168) - The Victorian novel: a mirror of life (173) - Early Victorian novelists (174) - Women s voices (175) - Late Victorian novelists (177) - CH. DICKENS (190) Hard Times ( A man of realities ; ) 1

2 Great Expectations ( I ve made a gentleman on you! ; ) - CH. BRONTË (213) Jane Eyre ( Thornfield Hall ; ) - E. BRONTË (225) Wuthering Heights ( I am Heathcliff! ; ) - TH. HARDY (257) Tess of the D Urbervilles ( Justice is done, materiale fornito in fotocopie; ) - R.L. STEVENSON (273) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( Dr Jekyll s first experiment ; e lettura integrale del romanzo) 1b. The Nineteenth Century: poetry - Remember di CH. ROSSETTI (309) - If thou must love me di E. BARRET BROWNING (materiale in fotocopia) 2. The Age of Modernism ( ) Literary Hyperlinks Vol. 3 The Twentieth Century and Beyond, di G. Thomson e S. Maglioni, Black Cat, 2011 History: A Time of War - The last days of Victorian optimism (10) - Suffragettes and the right to vote (11) - Imperial rivalry (11) 2

3 - World War I (12) - Total War (12) - The Russian Revolution (12-13) - The Irish Question: from the beginning to 1949 (materiale in pdf) - Steps to Independence (16) - The inter-war years (16-17) - World War II (18-19) - The Holocaust (21) - Hiroshima and Nagasaki (21) Culture & Society: Modern Literature - Modernism in Europe (23) - Modernism and the novel (28) - The influence of mass culture (29) - Freud s theory of the unconscious (29) - The influence of Bergson (29-30) - Stream-of-consciousness fiction (32) - Woolf and Joyce: diverging streams (33) - Other Modernisms: Lawrence and Conrad (33) - J. JOYCE (56) Dubliners ( The Dead ; 58-61; Eveline ; materiale fornito in pdf. Lettura integrale dei due racconti); Ulysses (64-66; estratti forniti in pdf per l analisi della Stream-ofconsciousness technique). - V. WOOLF (72-73) Mrs Dalloway ( She would not say ; e Septimus s death materiale fornito in fotocopia); o the Lighthouse ( The window ; 86-88). - D.H. LAWRENCE (97-98) Sons and Lovers ( What is she? ; ); 3

4 Women in Love ( ; The magnificence of the nigtht, materiale fornito in pdf); Lady Chatterley s Lover ( It s just love, materiale fornito in pdf). - War Poets: analisi e commento di The soldier di R. BROOKE e Glory of Women di S. SASSON (materiale fornito in pdf). 3. Contemporary Times (1945 and the new millennium) Literary Hyperlinks Vol. 3 The Twentieth Century and Beyond, di G. Thomson e S. Maglioni, Black Cat, 2011 History: A Time of War - The Cold War (188) - An easing of tension (190) - The Suez Crisis and the end of the British Empire (191) - The decline of welfare and the rise of Thatcherism ( ) - The Irish Question: from 1949 to 1994 ( ) Culture & Society: Modern Literature - Towards a multi-cultural society? (192) - The rise of pop culture in Britain ( ) - the postmodern condition ( ) - K. ISHIGURO (270) Never Let Me Go ( Told and not told, ) 4

5 Literature and Culture of the United States of America 1a. The Nineteenth Century: prose History: from the discovery to the Nineteenth Century - Birth of a nation (170) - Slavery, civil war and segregation (171) - The shaping of the American dream (172) Culture & Society - American prose in the 19th century (179) - E.A. POE ( ) The Fall of the House of Usher ( ) - N. HAWTHORNE (231) The Scarlet Letter ( The letter of the law ; ) 1b. The Nineteenth Century: poetry - Song of Myself di W. WHITMAN ( ); - There is a solitude of space di E. DICKINSON (299). 5

6 2. The first half of the Twentieth Century - The Sound and the Fury di W. FAULKNER: analisi di un estratto per il confronto con la tecnica narrativa di J. JOYCE e V. WOOLF. 3. Contemporary Times (1945 and the new millennium) Literary Hyperlinks Vol. 3 The Twentieth Century and Beyond, di G. Thomson e S. Maglioni, Black Cat, 2011 History: America after Social and cultural transformation in post-war America ( ) - America after Kennedy (203) - D. DELILLO ( ) White Noise ( His riot of emotions ; 219) Literature and Culture of the English-Speaking Countries Australia: Jack Maggs di P. CAREY, rewriting of Ch. Dickens Great Expectations ( Life lessons ; Vol. 2: ). Caribbean: Wide Sargasso Sea di J. RHYS, rewriting of Ch. Brontë s Jane Eyre ( The cardboard world ; Vol. 2: ) 6

7 Durante l anno, gli studenti hanno approfondito l analisi di alcune opere attraverso la lettura integrale di: - R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; - Joyce, J., Eveline ; - Joyce, J., The Dead. Hanno inoltre approfondito le tematiche legate all indipendenza dello Stato irlandese con la vision dei film Michael Collins (1996) di Neil Jordan. Baranzate, 11 maggio 2015 Gli studenti Il docente Francesco Roncacci 7