Extreme adjectives are words that mean extremely + adjective.
Saturday, 23 June 2018
Friday, 22 June 2018
Thursday, 21 June 2018
II PROVA SCRITTA ESAMI DI STATO
Today my students of 5^C Liceo Linguistico took an English test on the day of their II Prova Scritta.
As usual, it consisted of a text analysis and a composition, but they could choose among four different articles. All of them were very interesting, but quite complicated.
Monday, 11 June 2018
JACK KEROUAC
Here you can read about Jack Kerouac, a pioneer of the Beat
Generation.
His
method was greatly influenced by the prolific explosion of Jazz, especially the Bebop genre established by Charlie Parker and others. Later, Kerouac included ideas he developed
from his Buddhist studies.
He often referred to his style as "spontaneous prose." Although
his prose was spontaneous and supposedly without edits, he primarily
wrote autobiographical novels based upon
actual events from his life and the people with whom
he interacted. An often overlooked literary influence on Kerouac was James Joyce, whose work he
alluded to more than any other author. Kerouac had high esteem for Joyce
and he often used Joyce's stream-of-consciousness technique. He admired Joyce's
experimental use of language, as seen in his novel Visions of Cody,
which uses an unconventional narrative as well as a multiplicity of authorial
voices.
Here you can find a PDF presentation on this controversial American novelist and his most famous book, On the Road.
Thursday, 7 June 2018
AESTHETICISM AND DECADENCE
The Aesthetic movement began in France with Théophile Gautier at the end of the
19th century.
It was a reaction against the materialism and the strict moral code of the bourgeoisie during the Victorian Age. Read here.
