Weltliteratur 1. “National Literature is now a rather unmeaning term; the epoch of World literature is at hand and everybody must strive to hasten its approach.” * Goethe‚ 1827 2. However‚ there were a few concerns that the term World literature‚ as coined by Goethe‚ failed to address: * When one says World literature‚ whose world? What sorts of literature is worth being labelled as World literature? * Although Goethe claimed that the local/national Literatures were going to be obsolete
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LITERATURE “Literature is the mirror of the society” The adage above is one of the most commonly used definitions of Literature… cliché as it may sound‚ still‚ it is true. Literature traces the past‚ mimics the present‚ and sometimes‚ it also predicts the future. A piece of literature describes a milieu‚ a collection of it may describe an epoch‚ and the great ones determine what will be. Great as it sounds; literature’s power is still under the control of the human mind. A well written
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Chapter I: literature of the middle ages A. ANGLO- Saxon period (5th - 10th centuries) During the first five centuries of our era and long before that‚ Britain was inhabited by a people called Kelts‚ who lived in tribes. Britain’s history is considered to begin in the 5th century‚ when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles‚ Saxons and Jutes. At the very end of the 5th century they settled in Britain and began to call themselves English (after the principal tribe of
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Chaterhouse and at Trinity College‚ Oxford. He is best remembered for his work of the post-war years. In 1951 he founded the critical journal Essays in Criticism and his other works include Words-Worth: A Reinterpretation and A Guide to English Literature. Bateson was skeptical of ‘scientific’ and historical approaches to literary criticism. According to Bateson‚ the first essential quality of a scholar-critic is scholarship. The scholar-critic must be a scholar‚ a researcher‚ before he can become
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From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400 The Norman conquest of England‚ in the 11th century‚ made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two
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Horace Engdahl‚ who select the winner of Nobel literature award every year‚ said that “We talk in the same way about everything which is published‚ and literary criticism is poorer for it. Literary criticism and teaching were limited today.”[ Flood Alison “Nobel judge fears for the future of western literature” theguardian.com‚ 7 Oct 2014 ] Both of them considered the limitation of criticism. Therefore‚ Said claimed that the
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the test of time. The passing of years‚ government movements‚ and the changing of ideas as the world grows older literary masterpieces still strive on. Literary masterpieces come in all forms; semantics‚ poetry (literary form)‚ Short stories‚ and literature (Translations). Literary Masterpieces need an indivisible translation; even then they are still hard to understand. “Their sheer integrity and value should be protected from any unnecessarychanges in their shape and meaning (Brajerska-Mazur‚ A.
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attention in particular to the questions of literary history and canons. The main criteria informing Arnold’s approach to literary history here are literature’s higher truth (i.e. the degree to which a work captures not the realities of this world but ideals‚ that is‚ the perfection found in the world beyond this and which is the standard by which we ought to organise life in the here and now) and its moral value (i.e the impact for good which literature has on the reader). Only works that meet these
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SGRE3073 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE A) Guides: 1. The assignment should be approximately 5-10 pages. 2. Double spacing 3. Times New Roman 4. Font Size 12 5. Referencing: APA 6. Cover page: Plain White Writing Standards: Students are expected to demonstrate writing skills in describing‚ analyzing and evaluating ideas and experiences. Written material must follow specific standards regarding citations of authors’ work within the text and references at the end of the paper. Grades will be assigned
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Introduction to Literature Jennifer Chunn 22 MAR 2013 This is the first literature course I have ever taking in my academic career‚ the use of literature terms are one’s that I have never used before in work and school. In this paper‚ the literary approach is what I’m going to use for Kate Chopin’s on The Story of an Hour. The best definition I can give for literary approach is a literary approach is a way of looking at literature i.e. how you read a piece of literature. This approach
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