A short overview to English Literature.

1. English Literature -I-English Literature -I-
Lecture 1

2. ContentContent
1. Introduction to ENGLISH LITERATURE
2. WAYS TO STUDY * Collaborate
3. EVALUATION – ASSIGNMETS
4. STUDY FIELDS
5. OVERVIEW
The History of English Literature
Periods
Popular Works
5. CONCLUSION

3. What’s in a name?What’s in a name?

4. Playing with words!Playing with words!
What would you say about the following terms?
ENGLISH?
ENGLAND ?
GREAT BRITAIN?
BRITISH?
UK?

5. UK / Britain / England ?UK / Britain / England ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL66NfKUWDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

6. The most difficult job! Defining…!
What is...?
LITERATURE

7. Definitions…!Definitions…!
In one of Charles Dickens’ most memorable schoolroom scenes, Mr
Thomas Gradgrind, who believes in the importance of facts, asks Sissy
Jupe to define a horse. She panics and struggles to find the correct
answer. ‘“Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!” said Mr
Gradgrind… “Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to
one of the commonest of animals! Some boy’s definition of a horse.
Bitzer, yours.”’ Cold-eyed Bitzer knows the facts: ‘Quadruped.
Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-
teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries,
sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age
known by marks in mouth’ (Hard Times, 1854).
Bate, Jonathan (2010-10-07 00:00:00+08:00). English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short
Introductions) (Kindle Locations 607-612). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

8. I am/was wondering WHY…!I am/was wondering WHY…!
Sissy’s ignorance of the correct nomenclature is ironic, since she knows horses
infinitely better than Gradgrind ever will, let alone Bitzer. She is one of the
circus people. She has lived with horses all her life. She loves them, cares for
them, lives in a world where they are ridden with consummate skill. Dickens’
point is that true knowledge comes from experience and relationship, not from
fact and system. The influential Cambridge University literary critic Dr F. R.
Leavis at one time admired Hard Times above all Dickens’ other novels because
it starkly dramatized the division between vitality – as embodied by the circus
people – and the deadening of the human spirit effected by Gradgrind’s
educational theory that only facts matter. Gradgrind’s academy sought to
extirpate children’s capacity for wonder, for poetry and imaginary play, in order
to prepare them to become factory hands, mechanical cogs in the wheel of
Victorian capitalist production. Conversely, the aim of literature teachers in the
Leavisite tradition was to create beings of strong feeling and humane
understanding.
Bate, Jonathan (2010-10-07 00:00:00+08:00). English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (Kindle Locations 607-612).
Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

9. What’s is literature?
• Literature is a mouth:
it is the form of art that uses words as
opposed to images (the visual arts) or
music. But great literature shares some
essential characteristics with great
artworks in other media.
• Bate, Jonathan (2010-10-07 00:00:00+08:00). English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short
Introductions) (Kindle Locations 855-856). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

10. ENGLISH LITERATURE -1-
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJgmrhBg_EQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Q-Uad4rt8

11. I. STUDY FIELDSI. STUDY FIELDS
1a. SEMESTER
• The Anglo Saxons.
• Old English Literature. Beowulf. Its importance.
• The Medieval Period. Geoffrey Chaucer. Life and Career.
• The Cantebury Tales. (1)
• The Cantebury Tales.(2)
• The English Renaissance and Reformation.
• Writers and ideas.
• Christopher Marlowe. Life and career. Dr. Faustus.
• Analysis.
• William Shakespeare. Life and career.
• Shakespeare`s language. Shakespeare`s sonnets.
• The Merchant of Venice. (1)
• The Merchant of Venice. (2)
• The Merchant of Venice. (3)
• Exam Hamlet. (1)
• Hamlet. (2)

12. I. STUDY FIELDSI. STUDY FIELDS
1b. SEMESTER
• Macbeth. (1)
• Macbeth. (2)
• John Milton. Life and Career. Paradise lost.
• Paradise Regained.
• Daniel Defoe. Life and Career.
• Robinson Crusoe. (1)
• Robinson Crusoe. (2)
• Jonathan Swift. Life and Career.
• Gulliver`s Travels.
• Robert Burns. Life and Career.
• Poems.
• William Blake. Life and Career.
• Historical Linguistics
• Presentation of Course Works.
• Review

13. II. STUDY FIELDSII. STUDY FIELDS
2nd. SEMESTER
• Week Topics
• 1 Romantic period Literature
• 2 Burke, Paine
• 3 William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience
• 4 Lord Byron
• 5 Shelley, Carlyle
• 6 Mills, Brownings
• 7 Dickens, Wilde
• 8 Midterm Exam
• 9 English Literature during 20th
Century
• 10 English Literature during 20th
Century
• 11 Rise and fall of an Empire
• 12 Voices from World War I
• 13 Present Days Literature
• 14 Presentations
• 15 Review
• 16 Final Exam

14. History of English in 10 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfKhlJIAhew

15. English – Birth of a Language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVz5U76kX0 *5-7min

16. Overview
1. Old English Literature - 1066
2. Medieval Literature 1066 - 1510
3. Renaissance and Reformation 1510 - 1620
4. Revolution and Restoration 1620 - 1690
5. Eighteenth-Century Lit. 1690 - 1780
6. The Romantic Period 1780 - 1830
7. High Victorian Literature 1830 - 1880
8. Late Victorian & Edwardian Lit. 1880 - 1920
9. Modernism and Its Alternatives 1920 - 1945
10. Post-War and Post-Modern Lit. 1945 …

17. British Literature 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJgmrhBg_EQ

18. British Literature 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Q-Uad4rt8

19. 1. Old English

20. 1. Old English
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