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 * 5 N a. s. 2014/2015 2nd Term**


 * Revision work**








 * JUNE 2015 END OF TERM... **



אוהב אותי מעט אך ארוך. Paola Nannetti

(Jewish proverb: love me a little, but long)



Here's a very "visual" summary of Mrs Dalloway: [|http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/14025/Digital-Mapping-of-Mrs.-Dalloway/#vars!date=1923-06-15_10:00:00]!
 * May 2015 **
 * Virginia Woolf **

Programma Esame


 * April/May 2015 **
 * The Stream Of Consciuosness and its effects on modernist writers **


 * Cross-curricular module : William James and the stream of consciousness (Part 1) **



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 * Only for the ones who want to know more about William James: **


 * J. Joyce : //Dubliners// **




 * Esame di Stato **



Per Anna : []

Per Simone: []

I promised I would give some useful tips to tackle question n1 (simulazione 3° prova, tipologia B) Read this document which includes Wilde's personal explanation :-)




 * March 2015 **
 * THE MODERN AGE: Poetry **
 * T. S. ELIOT **
 * Here below you will read**
 * a) the Italian translation** **by Eugenio Montale** **of //The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock//**

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 * b) the traditional interpretation of Eliot's famous poem. While reading it, keep in mind that Eliot never** **explained who Prufrock was, where he was, who he was with, and what he meant to say in this obscure " love song" where love is not** **really its main theme...** **As Eliot declared,** **"genuine poetry can communicate before it is undestood"...**




 * Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde **


 * Questions for a quick revision of the story**

A BBC documentary on the Pre-Prephaelites

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 * The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti**


 * Ecce Ancilla Domini Beata Beatrix **

Homework for Mon. 16th Did Oscar Wilde write //The Picture of Dorian Gray// with the intention to draw a moral out of it?
 * February 2015 **

Answer this question on a sheet of paper (between 50-70 words)

Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism The term ‘aestheticism’ derives from Greek, meaning “perceiving through senses” and is a nineteenth-century European concept that rejects the moral rules and conventions of Victorian society, and focuses instead on beauty and the resulting pleasure in life. Since it is hard to nail down ‘aestheticism’ to one definition and since it has different meanings to different people, I will take a closer look at Oscar Wilde's thoughts about this concept, in order to better understand the correlation between this idea, and //The Picture of Dorian Gray.// When it was first published in //Lippincott's Monthly Magazine// on 20 June 1890, //The Picture of Dorian Gray// was attacked fiercely as it suggested a new set of moral beliefs and a new norm for the popular aestheticism of 1890s England. As a reply to these accusations, Wilde, who was not the inventor but rather “a major spokesman for the Aesthetic Movement in the late 19th century”, decided to revise his novel by adding a foreword and six new chapters. His most celebrated preface to the novel became a manifesto of aestheticism and represents a great “debate over art and morality”. In it, Wilde points out that “the artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.” (taken from //Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"// Seminar Paper, 2010)
 * January 2015 **

**__homework (Monday 9th Feb.)__** With reference to the extract you have to read ( The Picture of Dorian Gray) do the following activities: a) underline all the expressions and the similes with which Beauty is defined and write theM in your exercisebook b) list all the advantages given by Beauty c) what makes Beauty something impossible to capture and keep? d) the writer's idea is that Beauty is associated with ..................... e) state what remains when Beauty has gone f) the text presents a personification of time. Find it and explain how it is conveyed g) at this point, an important principle is stated. Focus on the imperatives, and define the life style that is here advocated h) as we have seen, Wilde delighted in paradoxes. Point out those which appear in this text, and write them down in your exercise book; next to each sum up in your own words the common sense, traditional view i) do you think that with these paradoxes Wilde just wanted to challange and shock the Victorian reader, or can you detect any meaning in them, on the basis of the Aesthetic doctrine?