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English and American literature - Reading list

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český
ID projektu
8724
Poslední úprava
26.09.2016
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1 200 x
Autor:
katerina.loumova
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Detaily projektu
Popis:
1. Old English Literature
• anonymous - “Beowulf”
- heroic epic poem of 3182 alliterative lines; set in Scandinavia
- Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles 3 antagonists: Grendel and his mother who trouble Danish king Hrodgar and an unnamed dragon. After the first two victories, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and becomes king of the Geats. The last fight takes place fifty years later and in this battle is Beowulf fatally wounded and buried in a tumulus in Geatland.
• anonymous - “The Wanderer“
- poem of 115 lines
- an old man describes his feelings of loneliness after loosing his Lord
• Cynewulf - “The Dream of the Rood”
- dream poetry
- writer describes the cross which comes alive and tells the story of crucifix

2. Middle English Literature
• Geoffrey Chaucer - “Canterbury Tales”
The Shipman's Tale
- It is in the form of a fabliau and tells the story of a miserly merchant, his avaricious wife and her lover, a wily monk.
- The tale tells of a merchant whose wife enjoys revelry and socialising, on which she spends much. A young monk, who is very close friends with the merchant, comes to stay with them. After confessing that she does not love her husband, the wife asks the monk for one hundred franks to pay her debts. The monk without her knowledge borrows the money from the merchant to give to the wife. When the merchant asks for his money back from the monk, the monk says that he has returned the loan back to the wife; and then promptly leaves town. When the merchant asks his wife about the money she says it is spent and blames the monk saying that she thought the money was in payment for him being such a long house guest. Instead of giving her husband the money back she says she will repay the debt in bed.

Klíčová slova:

english literature

renaissance poetry

postwar prose

modernism

americanism

novel

realism



Obsah:
  • 1. Old English Literature
    2. Middle English Literature
    3. Renaissance poetry in British Literature
    4. English drama from beginnings till the end of 18th century
    5. Beginning of the novel
    6. Pre-romanticism and Romanticism in British Literature
    7. Victorian prose and poetry
    8. British drama at the turn of the 19th and 20th century
    9. British postwar drama
    10. British poetry in the first half of the 20th century
    11. Modernism in poetry and prose
    12. Postwar British and Irish poetry
    13. British Prose in the first half of the 20th century
    14. Postwar British Prose
    15. Colonial and Revolutionary Periods in American literature
    16. Romanticism and Transcendentalism in American literature
    17. Beginnings of American Modern Poetry
    18. Early modern American fiction
    19. Realism in American literature
    20. Naturalism in American literature
    21. American Modernism
    22. American poetry and fiction of the Twenties
    23. American drama in the first half of the 20th century
    24. Postwar American drama
    25. Post-war American poetry
    26. Post-war American prose