Lingue

Marcel se trouve à une fête et découvre l’importance de la mémoire involontaire et décide de devenir écrivain.
Métaphore: les hommes juchés sur de vivantes échasses, qui rendent la marche difficile. Les échasses devient haute avec l’âge, et on finit pour tromper (mort). Le temps de l’existence, le vrai temps, n’est pas le temps chronologique (

• How often do customers buy it?
• Why do they buy it?
• Where do they buy it?
• How did they find out about it?
In a market research companies can use existing information (records, statistics, Chambers of Commerce, banks, telephone call).
Large firms make survey through their own marketing departments and specialized staff while me

Heat causes coagulation of the proteins in the muscles, so the meat becomes firm. Cooking temperature has little affect on niacin or riboflavin while thiamin, pyridoxine, folic acid are more sensitive to heat and are destroyed between 30 and 50 per cent. Vitamin A is quite stable to heat and is not affected by most cooking procedures.
Meat produc

In this period there is a new concept of time as continuous flow rather than as a series of separate points. In this way the new narrative texture moves backward and forward with freedom, trying to capture the sense of time as it actually operates in the human awareness of it.
There is also a new view of consciousness deriving in general way from th

Factors that determined the rise of modern novel:
-the influence of "philosophical realism"(Descartes,Locke),which focused attention on the individual strength ;
-the influence of Methodism: it taught the individual values + personal effort+ the importance of work and of daily activity;
- the growth of reading public (particularly women re

Quali zampogne o cimbali risuonano?Quale estasi selvaggia?

II

Le melodie ascoltate sono dolci,ma quelle ignote
sono più dolci; perciò suonate, o morbide zampogne;
non per l’orecchio che sente ma, più desiderate,
suonate allo spirito mute canzoni:
o giovane grazioso, sotto gli alberi, tu non puoi cessare
la tua canzo

Dickens belongs to the 1° generation of victorian novelists, so he speaks about his own time and about social changes. In particular he criticizes some aspects of society (law-workhouses), but he respects the structure and the political system in general, while the 2° generation novelists were consiouss of hypocrisy of their own time and they criticize

SETTINGS
All the story is set in a farm, known as the Manor Farm, somewhere in England. The historic setting is not clear, nor is it very important really, as the novel means to be a timeless criticism to communism. However, it may be set around the period in which Orwell has written it (1940s).

PLOT
The Manor Farm is led by Mr Jo

Here he was influenced, among his teacher, by John Ruskin and Walter Pater: the first attracted Wilde for his socialist ideas; the second taught him a new sense of art without moral responsibility.
While at Oxford he made some trips with Professor Mahaffy, that taught him to love Hellenism.
So, having took the laureateship in Oxford, and being w

Later he writed a series of short stories for children, and the novel “The picture of Dorian Gray”. After his first and only novel he developed an interest in drama and produced a series of plays. However both the novel and the tragedy damaged the writer’s reputation, since the former was considered immoral, and the latter was prevented from appearing o