Video lezione sul fascismo

Interessantissima lezione video sul fascismo.
Prof Guarneri

S.O.S cultura - lezioni di filosofia - Comte e il Positivismo

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everybody,
to your families, your teachers, your friends and whoever may need.
I really wish a peaceful Easter for those conutries which have been shaken by revolution and repression in Northern Africa.
Why don't we list the people we would like to wish Happy Easter? My first candidate is Vittorio Arrigoni (human right activist murdered in Gaza on 15th April 2011.) Who are your wishes for?
Prof Manno

Molly Bloom's monologue from Ulysses by James Joyce

Do you like Chiara Caselli? Some years ago she played the famous role of Molly Bloom. The following interview shows how the actress judges this modernist masterpiece. Both Penelope and Molly are waiting their husbands...
What are the differences beetween the two women?
Prof Manno

Videoclip from Dubliners / The Dead by James Joyce

                                                         http://youtu.be/RSTp3z-F8r0
Hi guys,
Please have a look at the final monologue of The Dead from the collection Dubliners by James Joyce.
I have found a very rare version dubbed in Italian. It's terrific! In the above frame you can see Greta and Gabriel in their hotel room just after the party. Before going to bed she has told Gabriel about Michael Furey - a memory coming from the epiphany caused by a song listened at the party. Now Gabriel is having his own epiphany...
Click on the link and enjoy!
Does anybody know what an epiphany is?
What is the etimology of this word?
Prof Manno

Wilde, D'Annunzio e Huysmans

A Rebours had enormous influence on Wilde, which is apparent

in The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in 1890, six years after A Rebours. Wilde wrote that his novel was a fantastic variation on Huysmans's over-realistic study of the artistic temper in our inartistic age (Letters, 1962). Similarly fascinated with the ornamental and the unnatural, the novel chronicles the life of Dorian Gray who finds that, through some mysterious process, a portrait of him ages while he remains young. That Wilde admired A Rebours is clearly evident in chapter 11 of Dorian Gray. Here, Dorian's life is changed by a mysterious yellow book...a novel without a plot, and with only one character, being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian...The style in which it was written was a curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once. The yellow book is meant to evoke A Rebours, and chapter 11 of Dorian Gray imitates Huysmans's style. Rather than describing Dorian's life, the narrative is suspended and the reader is given detailed passages describing various objects in Dorian's possession.
Concerning D'annunzio and Wilde, do you remember that sentence from Il Piacere (1889) "Bisogna fare della propria vita come un'opera d'arte"? I think it matches perfectly with Doryan's attitude towards life. Dorian -supported by Lord Henry- gets in touch with the pleasures of arts a life and decides to devote himself to all kind of experiences, leaving to the portrait the burden of his misdeeds.
Prof Manno

Benvenuti

Cari ragazzi e ragazze,
complimenti! Se siete arrivati fin qui vuol dire che vi abbiamo convinto e che avete voglia di fare bene e ottimizzare il vostro tempo dedicato allo studio. Come vedete il nome scelto per il blog è un auspicio per migliorare e per ottenere risultati importanti. Questo spazio vuole essere un punto d'incontro virtuale tra docenti e studenti con un fine unico e semplice: fare bene agli esami di stato. Ciò che troverete in queste pagine saranno collegamenti tra autori, confronti tra letterature di diversi paesi, approfondimenti storico culturali, analisi circa il substrato filosofico degli autori studiati, indicazioni per percorsi personalizati e tanto altro che può tornarvi utile per superare gli esami di stato. Inoltre voi stessi attraverso i commenti potete proporre argomenti, dibattiti, chiedere spiegazioni, inoltrare materiale. Anzi la vostra partecipazione determina il successo e la validità di questo strumento. Come vedete nutriamo delle grandi aspettative su di voi e ci stiamo impegnando al massimo per guidarvi attraverso questa tappa fondamentale della vostra vita.
Contiamo su di voi e in bocca al lupo!!!
Prof. Manno