British Literature – maturitní otázka

 

Otázka: British Literature

Jazyk: Angličtina

Přidal(a): tCZ

 

 

A) THE MIDDLE AGES

• 7th – 11th century / Anglo-Saxon period
  • Beowulf (8th century) – old Germanic legend (poem)
• 11th-14/15th century / Medival period
  • John Wycliffe – traslated whole Bible into English, influenced Jan Hus
• New age

B) THE RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM = 14^TH CENTURY

• Geofrey Chaucer – Cantenbury Tales ( 30 travelling pilgrims, each 4 stories)
• Sir Thomas More – Utopia (imaginary island with perfectly organized society)
• William Shakespeare

 

C)  17^TH CENTURY

• John Milton – masterpiece Paradise Lost (revolt of Satan aganist heaven and God)

D)  18^TH CENTURY

• ·   Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
• · Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
• · Henry Fielding – Tom Jones, History of a Foundling ->founder of a modern English novel

E)  ROMANTICISM

• · Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe, Waverley -> founder of historical novel
• · William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience -> beuatiful poems
• · William Wordsworth (Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner)+ Samuel Coleridge = Lyrical balads
• ·  Lord George Byron – Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
• · Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound
• ·  John Keats

F)  19^TH CENTURY – VICTORIAN AGE

• · Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
• · Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
• · Charles Dickens – David Coperfiels, Oliver Twist, Little Dorit, Great Expectations, Nicolas Nickleby
• · William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair

G)  THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20^TH CENTURY

• · Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd (naturalistic trend)
• · David Herberz Lawrence – Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (naturalistic trend)
• · Robert Lewis Stevenson – Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, Treasure island
• · Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Nightingale and the rose, The Happy prince, The Selfih Giant
• · Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book, Nobel Prize
• · John Galsworthy – Forsyte Saga, Nobel Prize
• · Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
• · Herbert George Wells – The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon -> invented sci-fi literature
• · Virgina Woolf – To the Lighthouse
• · James Joyce – Ulysses (+Kafka,Proust =>modern novel)
• · Graham Greene – The Quiet American (crime, sex, morality)
• · George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, You Never Can Tell, Widower’s Houses, Mrs. Warren’s Profession -> Nobel Prize

G)  CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

• · Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim
• · John Braine – Room at the Top, Life at the Top
• · William Golding – Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize
• · Iris Murdoch – Under the Net
• · J.R.R. Tolkien – Hobit, The Lord of the Rings
• · George Orwell – Animal Farm
• · Agatha Christie – Ten Little Niggers, Curtain, Sleeping Murder
• · Arthur C. Clarke –  A space Odyssey, The Fountains of Paradise
• · Samuel Beckett – Waiting for the Godot, Nobel Prize

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