Theme: A Journey
through the Mind
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ARGOMENTI
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TEMPI
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- Revision
work-study skills
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Settembre - Ottobre
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The
Puritan Mind
- Charles I
- The Puritans
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Satan’s Speech (Milton)
The
Intellectual Mind
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- The beginning of the Hanoverian dynasty
- The Scientific Revolution
- The Development of Human Rights
The Mind of Reason
- The Age of the Enlightenment
- Augustan Aesthetics & Literature
- The birth of journalism & the novel
- Daniel Defoe: life and works
- Text analysis from “Robinson Crusoe”
- Jonathan Swift: life and works
- Text analysis from “Gulliver’s Travels”
- “Castaway” modern hero vs. self-made man
The Imaginative Mind
-Early Romantic Age
- The Age of Revolutions
- Thomas Gray: the elegy
- William Blake: text analysis from “The Lamb”
and “The Tiger”
- The Sublime
- The Gothic Novel: “Frankenstein”
-Romantic Age
- Manifesto of Romanticism
- Historical & social context
- First Generation poets: W. Wordsworth & S.T.
Coleridge
- The Romantic Novel: Jane Austen “Pride &
Prejudice”
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Novembre
Dicembre
Gennaio
- Febbraio
Marzo
Aprile
Maggio
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