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

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