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 = 14TH CENTURY
- Geofrey Chaucer – Cantenbury Tales ( 30 travelling pilgrims, each 4 stories)
- Sir Thomas More – Utopia (imaginary island with perfectly organized society)
- William Shakespeare
C) 17TH CENTURY
- John Milton – masterpiece Paradise Lost (revolt of Satan aganist heaven and God)
D) 18TH 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) 19TH 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 20TH 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