|
English Literature Notes and Topics on Eng.Literature here |
Share Thread: Facebook Twitter Google+ |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
#11
|
||||
|
||||
If you want to study literature just for aesthetic pleasure, read anything you like. But if you want to understand it too, go through "A Short History of English Literature" by Ifor Evans to get how financial slump, social deterioration, industrialism and other factors influenced the literature of that era. Different characteristics of different Era will also be known to you.
Dont start with Gulliver's Travel. Its too lengthy - a social satire written symbolically. You wont be able to keep your interest till the end. Start with simple and interesting stuff like Hardy's and Austen's Novels. To understand "Animal Farm", one must know about Russian Revolution, its slogans and the Stalin Era. |
The Following 7 Users Say Thank You to Last Island For This Useful Post: | ||
Andrew Dufresne (Sunday, January 24, 2010), azeegum (Thursday, December 29, 2011), mangat1 (Saturday, February 06, 2010), MOEEN AKHTAR (Saturday, March 03, 2012), nageen (Sunday, January 24, 2010), New Student (Sunday, January 24, 2010), Sajid Sadeem (Wednesday, January 27, 2010) |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
i have the book, ifor evans.... but i cnt read it with interest,manytimes i started then left....would u please help me,that how could i develop my interest in that book??? it seems very dry...please help me that how i could read for understanding...
__________________
...trust som1 so much that one feels guilty to cheat u... |
#13
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Regards..
__________________
"So my birth was the first of all my misfortunes". (Jean Jacques Rosseou) |
The Following User Says Thank You to Da Skeptic For This Useful Post: | ||
Last Island (Wednesday, December 28, 2011) |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
Top 25-English Literature Question & English literature (MCQs) By Publishers Emporium usefull books.
|
#15
|
||||
|
||||
It wont help. He wants to study literature.
__________________
The Me you have always known, the Me that's a stranger still. |
#16
|
|||
|
|||
I agree with sis Last Island. If I am to recommend a book for a newbie I will recommend the same. Here is the link to download the book in pdf format.
a short history of english literature - ifor evans.pdf - 4shared.com - document sharing - download - lanaa1
__________________
Real richness is that you are so expensive that no one can buy your character. |
#17
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
Here my points which i have concluded after reading 1st chapter (A short history of english literature). kindly check them if m wrong... and clear my some difficulties...sorry for too minute questions but really i want to make them very clear in my mind....and so that i don’t go in the wrong direction at the very beginning We take start of English literature from Chaucer. 6 centuries (means 6*100) are considered in English literature...we ignore English literature b4 Chaucer bc English of that time is now as a foreign language... History of England takes place when ... angels, Saxons and jutes were in England and were invaded ...but invaded by whom, they fought with each other in england??? i want to know the position of Saxons, jutes and angles separately in England. Augustine converted jutes into Kent...is this point related to the Christianity? Why had Augustine come to England, special for the conversion of jutes into Kent?? What does norman conquest means?? Were angles,Saxons and jutes all were norman,and does Normandy means Germany,if all were belong to germany then y were fighting with each other in england?? Augustine was a man of Rome??and what is kent??Northumbria ....? Literature in anglo-saxon period was collected in manuscripts....in this chapter just mentioned the detail of sir Robert cotton’s script collection, and Exeter book. What does it mean.....one cannot assess Anglo-Saxon literature or medieval literature from the extant manuscripts.....y, y we can’t assess?? Ely....place, and Canute.... poet?? who r Scandinavians?? There is mention, about two important poems....beowulf and andreas .... then the Genesis story, dream of the road and Judith... are mentioned anyway??? The work on prose in anglo-Saxon period was by Aldhelm and Bede........both wrote in Latin....then there was Danish, .............then king Alfred, ....whose main work was translation .... What is Peterborough?? Aelfric....the greatest writer of English prose in anglo-saxon period....then wulfstan... Then the modern period starts from Chaucer ...1340??...to kia 1300 sy 1900 means 6 centuries English literature me ate hyn...???then what are the next...??es k baat kia ha???i mean after 19th century, what we consider???
__________________
...trust som1 so much that one feels guilty to cheat u... |
The Following User Says Thank You to entirely stranger For This Useful Post: | ||
MOEEN AKHTAR (Saturday, March 03, 2012) |
#18
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
Quote:
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes had lived in a portion of Germany most remote from the influence of Roman customs and ideas. The Jutes, Angles, Saxons and Frisians, sailed across the North Sea to raid and invade Great Britain from the late 4th century onwards, either displacing, absorbing, or destroying the native Celtic peoples. Quote:
The Angles in the region south of the Jutes and along the shore of the North Sea.Fom the Angles - that is, the country known as Angulus, which lies between the provinces of the Jutes and Saxons and is said to remain unpopulated to this day - are descended the East and Middle Angles, the Mercians, all the Northumbrian stock, and the other English peoples. The Saxons in northern Germany, from the base of the Danish peninsula to the mouth of the Rhine. From the Saxons - that is, the country now known as the land of the Old Saxons - came the East, South and west Saxons. Quote:
Why had Augustine come to England, special for the conversion of jutes into Kent?? Augustine with other missionaries came to England in 597 AD to spread the Christianity and established a Benedictine monastery at Canterbury. Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Anglo-Saxon: (428 – 1066) Anglo-Norman or The Middle English Period. (1066-1500) The Renaissance Period (1450-1600) which includes
The Neoclassical Period or the Age of Reason: (1660-1785) which includes
The Victorian Age: (1830 To 1901) Modern Age: (1900-1961) Postmodern Literature: (Post–World War II - )
__________________
The Me you have always known, the Me that's a stranger still. |
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Last Island For This Useful Post: | ||
Da Skeptic (Saturday, December 31, 2011), MOEEN AKHTAR (Saturday, March 03, 2012) |
#19
|
|||
|
|||
bundle of thanks.... but i cud not get this thing, plz make it clear also...
saxons,jutes,angels (were german) included in scandinavians(many folks)= vikings= nordic means all these terms have same meaning... and yes also the norman term..... 1 more question,angles and Saxons are the ancestors of English race but .... wahan pyhly b to log thy...in great Britain.....oun ke koe baat ni ha kia? when they (people of england) were raided, they merely lost their identity???
__________________
...trust som1 so much that one feels guilty to cheat u... |
#20
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
The Danes, the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Icelanders are the Scandinavian peoples. Scandinavian were called Nordic. The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century. The period from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is commonly known as the Viking Age of Scandinavian history. Vikings used the Norwegian Sea and Baltic Sea for sea routes to the south. The Normans were descended from Danish and Norwegian Vikings who were given feudal overlordship of areas in northern France — the Duchy of Normandy — in the 10th century. In that respect, descendants of the Vikings continued to have an influence in northern Europe. Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, had Danish ancestors. Geographically, a "Viking Age" may be assigned not only to Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden), but also to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, including Scandinavian York, the administrative centre of the remains of the Kingdom of Northumbria, parts of Mercia, and East Anglia. Viking navigators opened the road to new lands to the north, west and east, resulting in the foundation of independent settlements in the Shetland, Orkney, and Faroe Islands; Iceland; Greenland; and L'Anse aux Meadows, a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, circa 1000 A.D. Many of these lands, specifically Greenland and Iceland, may have been originally discovered by sailors blown off course. They also may well have been deliberately sought out, perhaps on the basis of the accounts of sailors who had seen land in the distance. The Greenland settlement eventually died out, possibly due to climate change. Vikings also explored and settled in territories in Slavic-dominated areas of Eastern Europe, particularly the Kievan Rus. By 950 AD these settlements were largely Slavicised. As early as 839, when Swedish emissaries are first known to have visited Byzantium, Scandinavians served as mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Empire. In the late 10th century, a new unit of the imperial bodyguard was formed which traditionally contained large numbers of Scandinavians. This was known as the Varangian Guard. The word "Varangian" may have originated in Old Norse, but in Slavic and Greek it could refer either to Scandinavians or Franks. The most eminent Scandinavian to serve in the Varangian Guard was Harald Hardrada, who subsequently established himself as king of Norway (1047–66). The Vikings sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia, Constantinople and the Middle East, as looters, traders, colonists, and mercenaries. Vikings under Leif Eriksson, heir to Erik the Red, reached North America, and set up a short-lived settlement in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. During the Viking Age, Scandinavian men and women travelled to many parts of Europe and beyond, in a cultural diaspora that left its traces from Newfoundland to Byzantium. But this period of energetic activity also had a pronounced effect in the Scandinavian homelands, which were subject to a variety of new influences. In the 300 years from the late 8th century, when contemporary chroniclers first commented on the appearance of Viking raiders, to the end of the 11th century, Scandinavia underwent profound cultural changes. The kings of Norway continued to assert power in parts of northern Britain and Ireland, and raids continued into the 12th century, but the military ambitions of Scandinavian rulers were now directed toward new paths. In 1107 Sigurd I of Norway sailed for the eastern Mediterranean with a host of Norwegian crusaders to fight for the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Danes and Swedes participated energetically in the Baltic Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries. Quote:
__________________
The Me you have always known, the Me that's a stranger still. |
The Following User Says Thank You to Last Island For This Useful Post: | ||
Da Skeptic (Saturday, December 31, 2011) |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
History of English literature | Naseer Ahmed Chandio | English Literature | 18 | Saturday, October 20, 2012 03:03 PM |
250 Signs Of The End Times... | Chilli | Islam | 0 | Thursday, May 04, 2006 09:36 PM |
American Literature | Ahmad Bilal | English Literature | 0 | Friday, April 14, 2006 05:58 PM |