Lingue

• A personal code replaces values and religion (these were dead)
• Nature is cruel, indifferent, unjust
• Man has to fight to assert his identity

STEINBECK
Style
• Large use of symbolism (certain natural images are emblems of particular themes)
Characters
• Miserable outcasts, rejects of American society
Themes
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Saltus Carbononis (latin)
Hagenau (tudesque)
Hainaut (franзais)
Hagine > Hainie

La Belgique
La Belgique, depuis peu, est une monarchie fйdйrale (3 etats regionaux) :
1- Flandre(s): Flandre Orientale+Flandre Occidentale+Anvers+Limbourg+nord de Bruxelles (langue nйerlandais)
2- Brabant (Wallonie): sud de Bruxelles (ar

EDGAR ALLAN POE

He’s a precursor of surreal effects with his existential anxiety.
He’s the first American writer.
America doesn’t like him because he was a successful man and wasted his fortune.
Surrealist loved him for the absurdity in his tales that reflect real life.
Poe’s purpose was to catch the whole beauty in the pl...

Grazie alla sua sola ingenuita' e salvando tutto quello che puo' dalla nave, Crusoe riesce a sopravvivere. Presto comincia a costruirsi utensili, ad addomesticare degli animali, a coltivare cereali e quindi in qualche modo a prosperare. All'inzio maledice il suo destino, ma poi, prendendo in mano una Bibbia che aveva recuperato dal naufragio, comin

L’Austrasia(Austrasie) a Sigebert con capitale Metz.
La Neustria(Neustrie) a Chilpйric con capitale Soissons e poi Braine.

Langue
Latino > Romano > GalloRomano > Francese
> Provenzale
> AfroRomano > Sardo
> Romano orientale > Rumeno
> Romano italico > I

The Puritan Spirit: The influence of Puritan doctrine is essential to understand many aspects of the American character. The central idea of Calvinism was the precept of pious labour: every man should have calling and work in it. He should also improve the talent God had given him. Thus the Puritan theology pushed man into the world according to Go

HER LIFE
Uneventful, she was a gay frivolous young girl, then a judicious and helpful sister and aunt. She rarely went to London and observed the provincial life around her. There are no reflections on life, no angry message in her books. In that time the king was George III and the leading party had been the Whigs for years and years. G:B: was

WORKS
His literary production may be divided into four parts: poetry, essays and articles, tales of imagination, tales of ratiocination.
His most famous and successful book was Tale of the Grotesque and of the Arabesque (1839). Poe is the father of that school of exotic literature of Wild, Boudlaire, Rimbaud.

THEMES AND STYLE~~~

romances of Ariosto and Tasso.
In 1594 he married Elizabeh Boyle, whose love
He had celebrated in a collection of Petrarchan love
Sonnets,Amoretti.
He went back to London where he died in poverty in 1599 and was buried in Westminster.
For The faeria Queene Spencer invented a new stanza, called Spencerian stanza wh

perchй dentro quel sonno della morte
quali sogni ci possono venire,
quando ci fossimo scrollati via
da questo nostro fastidioso involucro?
Ecco il pensiero che deve arrestarci.
Ecco il dubbio che fa cosм longevo
il nostro vivere in tal miseria.
Se no, chi s'indurrebbe a sopportare
le frustate e i malanni della vita,
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