LINGUE

FICTION          From a literary point of view the Victorian Age is an age of FICTION, because this genre enjoyed great popularity. The number of novels published increased enormously. They were serialised and this required that [...]

Lincoln, Abraham 1809-65, 16th president of the U.S.A. (1861-65); b. Hardin co. (now Larue co.), Ky. Born in a log cabin in the backwoods, Lincoln was almost entirely self-educated. In 1831 he settled in New Salem, Ill., and worked as a [...]

INDEFINITI AGGETTIVI PRONOMI Quelques = alcuni Quelqu’un/une = alcuni Certains = alcuni Quelques-uns/unes = alcuni Chaque = ogni, ognuno [...]

Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888-1965), American-born English poet, literary critic, dramatist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, who is best known for his poem The Waste Land, one of the most widely discussed literary works of the earl [...]

DAS DEUTSCHE THEATER Die deutsche Klassik erreicht ihren Höhepunkt erst am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts und wird durch die beiden grossten deutschen Dichter, Friedrich Schiller und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, vertreten. So wie sich der rebellis [...]

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Life He acquired British citizenship. He was very appreciable.   The conversion His production can be divided into two periods: before and after the conversion to Anglicanism. But it is not only a religiou [...]

LIFE OF DICKENS Charles Dickens was born near Portsmouth on February 7, 1812. The happiest years of his childhood were spent in Chatham, Kent, where his family lived between 1817 and 1823. It was in Chatham that Dickens was first intro [...]

LE CAUSE DELLA RIVOLUZIONE INDUSTRIALE E LE CONSEGUENZE SOCIALI E URBANISTICHE INCREMENTO DEMOGRAFICO: I motivi possono trovarsi in una più adeguata alimentazione e in più corrette norme igieniche e l’assenza di guerre devast [...]

LA   PESTE DE ALBERT CAMUS RESUME Les événements se sont produits à Oran,une ville de la coté algeriènne.Les habitants s'intéressent au commerce et ils s'occupent de faire des affaires.Un jour,le 16 avril,le doct [...]

THE FUTURE -          will + infinitive without to -          shall + infinitive without to (I pers. sing. e plur.) -      [...]

L’ECOLE EN FRANCE En france l’école est obligatorie de 6 à 16 ans:elle est facultative de 2 à cinq ans (école maternelle).L’école élémentaire (qui dure cinq ans) comprend le cycle préparatoire (1 an),le cycle élémentaire (2 a [...]

Evidence A woman has been murdered. Her body was discovered at seven o’ clock this morning. She had been stabbed. What happens next? In fiction, the crime would probably be solved by a brilliant detective. But in real life crimes aren0t usu [...]

Che cos’è il linguaggio?   La linguistica è una disciplina non normativa ma descrittiva, lo studio scientifico del linguaggio. Chiamiamo il linguaggio che possediamo linguaggio naturale. I linguaggi degli animali, gest [...]

THE AUTHOR Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797 and was an important figure in the Romantic Era of English Literature. Her mother was a famous feminist, her father a philosopher and novelist. She also married a poet. She realized the idea [...]

LATE VICTORIAN POETRY It’s different by Early Victorian poetry because of this features: -   reaction to moral and literary Victorian standards -   continuation and modification of Romantic trends -   [...]

NAPOLEON Après avoir obtenue le control du nord d’ Italie en 1799 le jeune général Napoléon retourne en France et il met fin à la constitution du 1795 avec un coup d’état. Il a un pouvoir total en effet il assume aussi la c [...]

Situation de la ville   Naples est le chef-lieu de sa région, la Campanie. Allongée en forme d’amphithéâtre, en partie le long des côtes tyrrhéniennes et en partie sur une verdoyante colline, qui offre un panorama imprenable sur le golfe. Na [...]

JOHN  KEATS - the LIFE -    John Keats was born in London in 1795; his parents dead before 1810; at the age of fifteen he started his interest for literature; he became an apothecary in 1816, and then he dedicated completely to lit [...]

IL PASSIVO ·        Nella trasformazione dalla forma attiva a quella passiva il CO diventa soggetto della frase passiva e il soggetto diventa complemento d’agente o di causa efficiente ·  &nbs [...]

First act The play is lyrical in tone and masquelike in movement. It lacks the graver undertones that are audible in Shakespeare’s later comedies : it is a dream, a jest, a presentation of the comic irresponsibility of young love. The play [...]