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The Great Gatsby Il ricorso al contesto sociale come elemento necessario per spiegare l'opera di uno scrittore si dimostra particolarmente evidente nel caso di Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald è stato infatti definito lo scrittore, il cantore dell [...]

English Grammar Practice ·        Catch up with: mettersi en pari con/recuperare terreno; ·        Keep up with: tener dietro a/stare al passo con; ·  &n [...]

Jane Austen 1795 – 1817 Jane Austen was the major novelist of the early nineteenth century. Her life was tranquil and uneventful. His father was the rector of a village in English country: he was a learned man and this influenced Jane. She [...]

THE PURITAN AGE - 1625/1642 HISTORICAL CONTEXT - CHARLES I  1625 (JAMES I'S SON): DURING THIS PERIOD THERE WAS A CLASH BETWEEN THE KING AND THE PARLIAMENT = WHO BETWEEN THE TWO HAD TO HOLD THE POWER. THE PURITAN PARTY, WHOSE MEMBERS MAIN [...]

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY GENRE:"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a formation's novel,that denotes an interior growth of the writer.It is half-way through novel and romance. TIME & PLACE:It takes place in London about the end [...]

When it was anonymously firstly published in 1726, it had immediately an extraordinary success: it was observed as “Gulliver’s travels” could be universally read, from the nurseries to the government cabinet. This thanks to Swift’s skill in hi [...]

Kubla Khan of  Coleridge Kubla Khan is the most important example of the particular Coleridge's conception that is based on the imagination that transcends the data of experience and creates in the true sense of the word. The poem desc [...]

Gaskell's Style The prevailing attitude towards Elizabeth Gaskell's writing in the first half of the twentieth century was typified by Lord David Cecil's characterisation of her in Early Victorian Novelists as all a woman was expected [...]

LE PIOGGE ACIDE Le piogge acide sono state definite una “peste invisibile” dell’era industriale, e sono considerate uno tra i più gravi problemi ambientali del nostro tempo. LE CAUSE Le gocce di pioggia sono inizialmente co [...]

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) She was born near Durham to a wealthy merchant family. She was educated learning Greek and Latin (unusually for a girl of her time). She was a voracious reader and an early writer. Her tyrannical fath [...]

1900 IN DEUTSCHLAND Im Jahr  1890 bestig Kaiser Wilhelm II den Tron in Deutschland. Er regierte 30 Jahre lang, und diese Periode wird als " Wilhelminische Zeit " bezeichnet. Seine Wirdschaftpolitik gab Deutschland einen wichtigen [...]

EQUAZIONE: è un uguaglianza tra due espressioni algebriche verificata per                           un particolare valore attribuito all’incognita. IDENTITA’: è un uguaglianza tra due espressioni algebriche verificata p [...]

Francese LA LETTRE PUBLICITAIRE La lettre publicitaire, ou lettre de vente, a l’ objectif de capter l’attention du lecteur. Son plan, son style et son vocabulaire est diffèrent de ceux des autres lettres qui sont plus standar [...]

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH §         When he was young, he became a supporter of French revolution; but then the war between France and England started, so he had to return into England. There he lived in clo [...]

America The USA is a federal republic of 50 states and one federal district where the capital city Washington is located. The biggest state is Alaska and the smallest Rhode Island. The continental US measures 4.500 km from east to west and [...]

King Lear CHARACTERS: KING LEAR: king of Britain. He’s 80 years old and he’s three daughters: _GONERIL, the eldest, wife to the duke of Albany; _REGAN, wife to the duke of Cornwall; _CORDELIA, a young maid. The king of France [...]

Il lazarillo Mentre si sviluppano i vari tipi di fiction narrativa, si crea nella letteratura spagnola ciò che si chiamerà più tardi la novella picaresca, chiaro antecedente del realismo moderno nell’arte di novell [...]

GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1343-1400 The Roman de la Rose – 1276-80 /The book of the Duchees – 1369 /The House of Fame – c1379 /Boethius – c1380 /The Parliament of Fowles – c1382 /Troilus and Criseyde – c1385 /The Legend of Good Women – c1386 /The [...]

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 – 1967 Siegfried Sassoon was born in a rich Jewish family: he didn’t share the same religion of the other soldier (and poets). During the war he was wounded and hospitalised in Britain; he refused to go back to the fr [...]

GLI AGGETTIVI E I PRONOMI INTERROGATIVI Who, whom, whose, what e which sono aggettivi e pronomi interrogativi e sono invariabili in genere e numero INTERROGATIVO FUNZIONE ESEMPIO WHO = [...]