LRC EDUCATION: EMPOWER YOUR KNOWLEDGE
This is not a review but only a record of my personal feelings and thoughts jotted down right after having finished reading this heartwarming book. I spent most of this … Continue reading Virginia Woolf – A Biography by Quentin Bell
The Middle Ages in British history is a very complex time that spans roughly from the end of the 5th century to the early Modern Age, set approximately around 1485.
A comprehensive outline of the major characterising events allows students to understand better the powerful impact it had on its history and literature affecting also social life, economic development, and deep language changes.
1. What is the “Victorian Compromise”? 2. Outline women’s emancipation movement in English literature. Give examples taken from the works we have discussed in class. 3. What does Conrad mean … Continue reading ESSAY QUESTIONS
Chapter 1 These are the first pages of the novel in which the Bennet family is introduced It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of … Continue reading Excerpts from Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813)
This post is meant to help learners study the topic through key words and concepts, it’s more of a rough summary than what would be a more insightful and deeper … Continue reading THE VICTORIAN AGE (1830-1901) – AN OUTLINE
Textual Analysis
Reading, comprehending and analysing literary currents, grammar structures. Contents and understanding to develop competences.
Tips and advices to help students find the study methods that best fits their needs according to the different types of tasks and that best meet their aptitudes.
Part of Speech: The Verb – The Present Simple.
Writing activity to develop insightful reasoning and learning.
This video lesson is dedicated to the First Generation Romantic Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge, providing an outline of their literary inspirations and themes, examining their similarities and … Continue reading Video Lesson on First Generation Romantic Poets – W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge
This Video Lesson illustrates the themes and characteristics of the Romantic Age, a time of transition introducing new ideas and perspectives, in contrast with the main ideas that characterised instead the Augustan Age, therefore more concerned with feelings and sensations, rather than the blind faith in scientific progress and reason brought to its extremes.
In this video lesson I discuss the different poetic genres and the theatre that developed during Medieval Times thanks to their relative economic and political stability.
It illustrates the characteristics of the Medieval Ballad, the Narrative Poem and, as far as the theatre is concerned, the Miracle Plays, the Pageant, the Morality Plays and, finally, the Interlude.
