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oralmente nella costruzione di un discorso autonomo.

1) Elenchi i romanzieri “georgiani” e quelli “edoardiani”

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2) Autore e fonte di “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book”
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3) Autore e genere di Tradition and the Individual Talent
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4) Little Gidding: autore, genere e in quale raccolta è contenuto il componimento
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5) Faccia un esempio di “consonanza”
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6) Perché D. Richardson è considerata un’innovatrice?
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7) A. E. Housman: genere e fase letteraria in cui si colloca
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8) Autore e fonte di: “For art’s sake alone […] I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”
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9) Qual è l’oggetto della vena critica delle commedie di Wilde?
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10) A che genere appartiene, chi è l’autore e di cosa tratta Jude the Obscure?
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11) Quali sono i due filoni principali della letteratura poliziesca e da dove deriva il genere?
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12) Chi è l’autore e qual è l’argomento di The Time Machine?
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13) In che senso il teatro inglese della seconda metà del XIX secolo è conservatore?
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14) R. Browning: le opere
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15) Qual è l’autore che per energia, compressione e ritmo della sua lingua, rappresenta una voce
poetica fuori dal coro rispetto ai contemporanei vittoriani?
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16) A che genere appartiene, chi è l’autore e di cosa tratta Diana of the Crossways?
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17) Qual è il tema della prima fase della produzione narrativa di H. James e quali le relative opere?
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18) Chi è l’autore di Heart of Darkness e quanti sono i principali narratori e uditori?
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19) A che autore si riferisce la dinamica oppositiva “inner life” vs “outer life” e cosa implica?
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20) Cos’è il Vorticismo?
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21) Cos’è il Bloomsbury Group?
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22) Qual è l’opera di Joyce che segna la fine del Modernismo e quando viene pubblicata?
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23) Chi scrisse, di cosa tratta e in che panorama letterario si colloca The Testament of Beauty?
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24) Come sono definiti quei poeti che, pur annoverandosi fra i georgiani, se ne distaccarono
contribuendo allo sviluppo della poesia moderna?
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25) Chi ha scritto, cos’è e qual è l’argomento di A Vision?

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26) Qual è il mito principale al quale fa riferimento la Waste Land?

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27) F.M. Ford: i romanzi

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28) Chi è l’autore e qual è l’argomento di Enemy of the Stars?

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29) Autore e argomento di The Dubliners
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30) Quali sono i primi romanzi della Woolf che si iscrivono ancora nella tradizione?
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