Classe 5^

(From the Modern Age to Contemporary Times)

From the Romantic Age to The Victorian Age

AUDIOLESSONS: The Romantic Age    The Victorian Age

The Romantic Period (1776-1837)

The Beautiful, The Picturesque, and the Sublime

From the Age of Reason to the Romantic Age: Historical and Social Changes (MP3 file)

From the Age of Reason to the Romantic Age: Cultural Influences (MP3 file)

- Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (MP3 file)
- Fantasy: a mind map (Word file)

- The life of Mary Shelley (MP3 audio file) and The Birth of a Monster  (MP3 audio file)(on Frankenstein)

- TED-ED: Frankenstein (5:01)
- TED-ED: The consequences od supervolcanoes (4:51)

- THE SHELLEYS: a mind map
- Frankenstein: plot

- Frankenstein: an analysis (MP3 file)

- Frankenstein: a timeline of events
- Frankenstein Mind Chart  (
PDF)

- Frankenstein Chap 5 (hyperlinks)
- Frankenstein
(Chap. 10 English) MP3-Librivox

-
Frankenstein
(Chap. 13 . Who was I?) new
- Frankenstein
(Chap. 16 English) MP3- Librivox

- Frankenstein (Cap.5 trad.it )
- Frankenstein
(Cap.10  tr.it )
- Frankenstein (Cap.16 tr.it )

 MGT'S POCDAST (Blake)

- Blake, The Lamb
- Blake, The Tyger (tr. di G. Ungaretti)
- Blake, London
- Blake, Proverbs of Hell
- Blake: Infant Joy - Infant Sorrow
 

- William Blake (Themes)
- Blake: Complementary opposites (Mp3 file)
- Blake: a mind map(Word file)

- Wordsworth's poems
- Comment on Wordsworth's poems

- Coleridge: Fancy and Imagination

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (AUDIO - MP3); Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7

MGT'S PODCAST (The Rime of the Ancient...))

- The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (English/Italian)abridged
-
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (English/Italian)(ZIP) [complete]
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": a comment

- Themes in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (simple)
-
Themes in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (more complex)

-Complete analysis on-line of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
 Song:The Rime of the Ancient mariner - Iron Maiden (lyrics)

- "L'Albatros" di Charles Baudelaire

- A comparison: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley

MGT'S PODCAST (P.B. Shelley)

- P.B. Shelley biography

"Ozymandias" by P.B. Shelley and comment

- Ode to the West Wind by P.B. Shelley (ingl.)
- Ode to the West Wind by P.B. Shelley (tr. it.)

- Ode On a Grecian Urn (con testo it. a fronte)
- Ode on a Grecian Urn (A comment)


Hard Times: Coketown (extract)
-Hard Times
by C. Dickens (themes)

- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontė
- Jane Eyre: a feminist interpretation

- Wuthering Heights: PLOT (a mind map)
- Wuthering Heights: a complete site on-line by a fan!
- Wuthering Heights
by Kate Bush (song and video)

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MrHyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MrHyde: Chapter10. HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
(complete)

Dottor Jekyll, cap, 10  (completo)

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MrHyde: Chapter10. HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
(abridged)

Link to the complete English version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MrHyde

Alice in Wonderland (quotations)
Alice in Wonderland (analysis)

Henry James: Woman in the Jamesian Eye

- Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray ( plot)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray ( themes)
- The Preface To The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Chapter 20)
-
  Oscar Wilde's Aphorisms
- Sebastian Melmoth's Aphorisms (O.Wilde)
- Wilde's Aphorisms: GAME
- De Profundis   (abridged)
- "Each man kills the things he loves"  (The Ballad of the Reading Gaol)
- La condanna di Oscar Wilde

 


Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Karl Marx (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Karl Marx (presentazione POWER POINT)
Marx's Theory of Commodity Fetishism

The Great Exhibition of 1851

Sigmund Freud (presentaz. POWER POINT)
Freud (1856-1939) and Freudianism

Sigmund Freud On Transience [Caducitą, 1915]

 

Paintings of the Romantic Age

Caspar David Friedrich: Traveller above a Sea of Clouds

The Albatross: a song by Sheria Tshongo Mussonghora


Sites on Frankenstein:

http://web.quipo.it/frankenstein  


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A link to the most complete web site on Victorian England:

http://www.victorianweb.org/

PPT on the Victorian Age


Ibsen's A Doll's House


THEMES

NARCISSISM
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Diagnostic Criteria
The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NDP)
Selfishness and Love (by Eric Fromm)


WOMEN

The Victorian Age and the Colonization of Women (Present. POWER POINT)
Women in the Victorian Age

PHOTOGRAPHY
On Photography by Susan Sontag


in ITALIANO

Il sublime
Il sublime (Remo Bodei)

Frankenstein e la "fantasy" http://digilander.libero.it/mgtundo/Frankenstein1.htm

John Stuart Mill
Introduzione
John Stuart Mill e la morale

John Stuart Mill e l'emancipazione femminile



Jim Morrison
People are strange (lyrics)