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British literature - British literature - timelinetimeline
Old English literature
Medieval English literature
Renaissance and Reformation
Revolution literature of 17th century
English literature of 18th century -
Classicism
Romantic literature
Victorian literature
Modernism (20th century literature)
Literature – warm upLiterature – warm upWhat is literature influenced by?
What literature genres do you know?
What is fiction and non-fiction?
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Literature – warm upLiterature – warm upWhat is literature influenced by?- historical, political, social features of the
period – war, social pressure and injustice, moral degradation, uncertain future…
What literature genres do you know?
- poetry, prose, dramaWhat is fiction and non-fiction?- Fiction – an invented story made up by
the author´s imagination
Literature – warm upLiterature – warm upWhat is fiction and non-fiction?
- Fiction –- Non-fiction –
Literature – warm upLiterature – warm upWhat is fiction and non-fiction?- Fiction – an invented story made
up by the author´s imagination – novels, tales, romances, novellas, short stories, whodunits, adventure stories, spy stories, thrillers, police novels
- Non-fiction – literature of fact – biography, autobiography, travel books, history books, diaries, textbooks, memoirs
Literature warm- upLiterature warm- upWhat type of books children like?
- fairy tales, stories, fables, children´s rhymes, juvenile literature
Are books better than films?Are books better than the Internet?
Literature warm-upLiterature warm-upMatch the authors and the period: Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, Austen, Wilde,
Christie, Defoe, Shaw, Orwell, Boewolf
Old English literature
Medieval English literature
Renaissance and Reformation
Revolution literature of 17th century
English literature of 18th century - Classicism
Romantic literature
Victorian literature
Modernism (20th century literature)
Literature warm upLiterature warm upMatch the authors with their titles1)Shakespeare a) Pygmalion2)Geoffrey Chaucer b) Robinson Crusoe3)Daniel Defoe c) The Importance of
Being Earnest4)Charles Dickens d) Oliver Twist5)Jane Austen e) The Midsummernight´s Dream
6)Oscar Wilde f) the Cantenbury Tales7)G.B. Shaw g) Pride and Prejudice
Old English literature Old English literature (700-1100)(700-1100)
Beowulf [beiouwulf]
the oldest English literary work from the Anglo-Saxon period.
It was written by an unknown (anonymus) poet probably in the 8th century.
It‘s an epic poem of heroes and myths. The events are set entirely in Denmark and Sweden.
The poem provides a picture of old Germanic life. It is written in alliterative verse.
Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Medieval English literatureMedieval English literature(1100 – 1500)(1100 – 1500)
John Wycliffe (1320 – 1384)
a professor from Oxford university
translated the whole Bible into English
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 – 1400)
the father of English poetry
The Canterbury Tales - his famous work
it´s an unfinished collection of comic and moral stories told by a
group of pilgrims (poutníci) while travelling from London to the
grave of Thomas Beckett at Canterbury
the tales are full of gossip (drby) and are often rude
Renaissance and Reformation Renaissance and Reformation (1500 – 1600)(1500 – 1600)
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) the greatest philosopher of that time Utopia - famous book, it describes an imaginary island with
perfectly organized society.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) the world’s greatest playwright in England was born in Stratford upon Avon he wrote historical plays about the kings of England
( Henry IV, Richard II…), comedies (A Midsummer Night´s Dream …) and tragedies (Hamlet, Macbeth …)
he is also known as a poet for his 154 poems,The Sonnets.
They start by giving advice to a young man about marriage.
Revolution literature of 17th Revolution literature of 17th centurycentury
(1600 – 1700) (1600 – 1700) John Milton (1608 – 1674)
his life is connected with the Civil War in England at that
time. He wanted to punish a king who was a tyran.
His famous epic poem Paradise Lost deals with (vypráví
o ) the worst side of human life.
English literature of18th English literature of18th century Classicism (1700 – century Classicism (1700 –
1800)1800) „the novel“ was born
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
a politician, traveller and journalist Robinson Crusoe - his famous work about a castaway (trosečník)
on a deserted island
Jonathan Swift (1667 -1745)
a sharp critic, he wrote satirical prose
he criticized politics in England, kingdom, corruption, armies, bad
polititians
Gulliver Travels - an allegory of Lemuel Gulliver´s travelling
through imaginary countries (Lilliputians, the land of Giants, the
flying island of Laputa,…).
Henry Fielding (1707 -1754)
a journalist and lawyer
Tom Jones - a realistic novel about a lot of adventures of a
foundling (nalezenec) Tom. He is a fine, strong and carefree
character.
Fielding shows that Tom´s true love was in the end more
important than his lifestyle.
Romantic literatureRomantic literature(1780 – (1780 – 1832)1832)
Romantics of the Lake School a group of poets settled in the Lake District:
William Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824) a poet, the author of Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage
Sir Walter Scott (1771 -1832) a Scottish novelist and poet
he took inspiration from folk, ballads and Scottish history
„historical“ novels: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe,…
Jane Austen (1775 -1817) she wrote „domestic novels“ dealing with family life her best-known novels are: Pride a Prejudice, Sense and
Sensibility the novels deal with social life of the upper classes
Mary Shelley (1797 -1851) wrote a novel Frankenstein
Brontë sisters Charlotte (1816 -1855) is famous for her love novel Jane Eyre Emily (1818 -1848) wrote love novel Wuthering Heights
Victorian literature Victorian literature (1832 – 1901)(1832 – 1901)
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
a representative of critical realism
he described the life of poor people in England in the 19th century.
he used humour in his novels too. He often uses his own
experience from his childhood .
The novels are set in London.
novels: David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver
Twist,…
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863)
novel Vanity Fair – discribes a vivid picture of early 19th
century society
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894) romantic adventurous stories: Treasure Island , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde …
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) writer, dramatist, poet born in Dublin he is a representative of English decadence and symbolism he wrote novels: novel The picture of Dorian Gray
fairy-tale The Happy Prince
comedies An ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Ernest
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907
the best known are The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
- vivid stories of life in India, for children
Modernism (20th century Modernism (20th century literature)literature)
„experimental novels“: Virginia Woolf (1882 -1941) – a woman writer, novel To the
Lighthouse James Joyce (1882 -1941) - wrote short stories The Dubliners
novel Ulysses
detective stories: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)
- he brought the figure of Sherlock Holmes into English literature:
The Hound of the Baskervilles Agatha Christie
- she gave life to the figure of Belgian-born detective Hercule Poirot and
Ms Jane Marple
sci-fi stories: H.G.Wells (1866 – 1946) – The War of the Worlds, Time
machine
John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933) the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 Forsyte Saga – about the Forsytes which is an upper-class
family
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) born in India a political allegory Animal Farm
- satire of the politics of the Soviet Union
William Golding the Nobel Prize for literature novel Lord of the Flies – he fights against negative
powers in people
20th century drama20th century dramaG.B.Shaw (1856 -1950) the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925 Anglo-Irish dramatist, he criticized the false morals of the society his play Pygmalion (a film musical „My Fair Lady“) „Angry young men“ = a group of young writers who hated social
system: John Osborne - drama Look Back in Anger
- famous for the concept of „kitchen sink drama“ ,set in ordinary interiors
Kingsley Amis - novel Lucky Jim (describes a rebellious spirit at university)
„Absurd drama“ (in the 1950s) - there is almost no action nor plot:
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot - two people are waiting for Godot who has no identity, so the whole work is full of absurd nihilism.
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