En Lit
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Language | English |
Category | Literature |
Level | University |
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Origins of drama
Mimetic faculty: imitation, pretend
Fertility rites: ritual, sacrifice a goat
Tragedy: tragos - goat, tragoidia - fertility dance
Comedy: comos - loud festivity
In the beginning: no clear distinction between comedy and tragedy, only in the Renaissance tragedy got a sad end and comedy a happy end
Drama before Shakespeare: the three M's
Miracle Plays: medeval England, church was against theatre. Later the church started using plays for the services because many people did not understand Latin. Those plays explained the miracles in the bible. They were performed on the churchyards
Mystery plays: performed by guild on peagants and showed scenes from the bible. Connection between craft and religion (bakers performed Last Supper)
Morality plays: 15/16 cent.: Moral lessons by means of allegory. Religion and personal conflict (Anymal farm)
Elisabethan Era (Golden Age of E litarature)
E (1558 - 1603)
E liked drama, England was a World power.
Thomas Kyd The Spanish tragedy
Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus (popularised the style that Shakespeare used later)
Invention of blank verse: iambic pentameters
William Shakespeare: invented words, thetre set outside, people smelled, ate and threw food at those actors who they didn't like
Macbeth (1606): the shortest play, three witches (like in Greek theatre), soliloquy: inner conflict, weekness vs. greed. Typical shakesperean character: he doesn't know wheter to act.
The gunpowder plot: propaganda
Romantisism
1798 - 1850
Writing in the language of people
Fiction
Emotional matter in imaginative form
Absurd turms for normal words
Focus on individual and their feelings
Early Rom Poets: Burns, Blake (1770-1850)
The Lake poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey (1800-1850)
Dying young: Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats (1798 - 1850)
The Lake poets
Wordsworth: not religious in the common way, God=Nature, individual must be able to experience God personally. Poetry: spontaneous overflow of feelings, used for men - use of normal language
Elevated position of the poet, golden flowers, eternity, everything will pass, nature
Chiastic structure: beginning in end are the same
Coleridge: interest in everything mystical
The Rime of an ancient mariner: a man mustn't kill the creatures, political freedom
The picture Lonely Tower:
owl - freedom
poet is elevated in the tower
people are down, the listeners
the ruins: savage is closer to nature
Dying young
Poet is a prophet, writing is a vocation
Percy Shelley: To a Skylark, the poet is elevated, he wants to learn to sing beautifully, was atheist and traveller
John Keats: Poetry should come naturally
Ode to Nightingale: closeness to nature, beautiful songs, beauty of nature and life not so beautiful
The sublime is a key word
Romantics: tourists, Alps, Switzerland, fascinated with science and progress, a lot of experimenting with anymals, electricity
Mary Shelley Frankenstein: science is not enough, it shouldn't be misused
reference to Paradise Lost (Adam, creation of God, not happy)
Hubris: Frankensteil is a tragic hero, thinks he can create life, must be punished for it
Children's literature
1693: John Locke: children are tabula rasa, inscribe, educate
1762: Jean-Jaques Rousseau: Emile: nature wants children to be children before men, children need literature written for them
paintings of children: little adults vs children
Robert Sothey (Lake poets) The three bears
Lewis Carrol: founder of the English nonsense tradition
Louise May Alcott: Little women propaganda for girls, preparing them for their future role
For boys:
Henty: The coral island
Stewenson: Treasure island
Short story
Limited number of characters
In media res
Minimum of exposition
quick solution
A Canary for one: omnicsient narrator, foreshadows,