British History and Literature
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| Langue | English |
| Catégorie | Anglais |
| Niveau | Université |
| Crée / Actualisé | 16.01.2025 / 16.01.2025 |
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What is satire and what are the two ways of reading it?
Satire: mode of writing in 18th century, political, aggressive and ironic to make you think what's wrong by exaggeration
2 ways of reading: general reading and ad hominem reading
What are the reasons for the development of the novel in the 18th century?
- Interest in realism: stories about real people you can identify with (no epic hero)
- Industrialization & trade: rise of middle-class, interested in reading material, cater to them
- Decline of Drama: had to find substitutions for it (novel emerges)
- Growth of newspaper & magazines: possibility to read daily, people used to read prose
- Women literacy: can suddenly read, were denied education but novels were ok, women writers appear
- Technological progress in book printing: affordable & in grand scale
- Libraries in 18th century: books can be borrowed, don't have to buy the books
Name the 6 major romantic poets.
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- S.T. Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- P.B. Shelley
- John Keats
What are the major points of Wordsworth's Preface?
- Lyrical poetry
- Imagination (vs. Mimesis)
- The individual
- Language of the common people
- Nature
- Ordinary things
- Weltschmerz
What are the main reasons for the Industrial Revolution?
- Colonialism/Colonies: raw materials
- Coal: in north of England, factories, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham
- Science: centrally organized through royal society
- Infrastructure: canals, ways around the coasts
- Stability: Stable politics & society, no civil unrest
- Enclosure:
- common land/commons around villages sold to rich people
- enclosure of the common land, poor left to cities out of villages
- Urbanisation & mass unemployment
- Proletariat emerges, workers are there to work, like Irish/countryside -> were exploited
- Protestantism: Protestant work ethics, predestination, no spending but investing money, England became major industrial power in Europe
Which king was executed?
Charles the 1st
Name two kinds of satire.
Juvenalia and Horatian
Who wrote the Decay of Living?
Oscar Wilde
Who wrote Dover Beach?
Matthew Arnold
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
John Milton
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
Jonathan Swift
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Why is the 18th century also called the Augustan Age?
- Name of the emperor Augustus during his reign where Roman literature flourished with writers such as Vergil, Ovid and Horace
- The authors of the Augustan Age in England refer to the Roman authors und the Emperor Augustus
- Role models were taken from the ancient times
Put into the correct order:
Reformation, Restauration, Civil War, Christianisation
- Christianisation
- Reformation
- Civil War
- Restauration
Put the periods in the correct order:
Augustan Age, Victorian Age, Elizabethan Age, Romanticism
- Elizabethan Age
- Augustan Age
- Romanticism
- Victorian Age
Name the 4 factors for the Industrial Revolution.
- Colonies: raw material
- Science: centrally organized through royal society
- Infrastructure: canals, ways around the coasts
- Stability: stable politics and society and no civil unrest
What happened in 1688?
Glorious Revolution
What happened in 1066?
Anglo-Saxon culture stops abruptly -> Norman conquest of England
Which period/lit. movement belongs to this concept?
"Deductive method"
medieval times
Which period/lit. movement belongs to this concept?
"Sola scriptura"
Reformation / Renaissance (only the bible
Which period/lit. movement belongs to this concept?
"Industrial Revolution"
19th century Victorian Age
Which period/lit. movement belongs to these concept?
"Language of the common people"
Romanticism
What is the justification of the ways of god towards men called?
Theodicy
What is the Spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions called?
Poetry
What is the imitation of nature/reality?
Mimesis
What do you call a poem about the life and death of a hero?
An Epic
Name the periods of British literature and culture and give approximate dates.
- Ancient times (until 500)
- Anglo-Saxon England (449-1066)
- Medieval times (500 - 1500)
- Middle English (1066-1500)
- Renaissance (1350/1500-1603) - Elizabethan Age (1558- 1603)
- Age of Revolution (1603-1688)
- Augustan Age (1688-1780/1800)
- Romanticism (1780-1830)
- Victorian Age (1837-1901)
- 1900 until today is Modernism
What is Heptachy?
Term refers to the 7 Anglo Saxon kingdoms which ruled in England and were established by 650 AD
How did the English language change between Old English and Middle English? And why? (What does the Norman invasion have to do with it?)
- Old English:
- Synthetic language, free syntax, worked with endings
- Middle English:
- Analytic language, syntax is fixed
- Reason:
- 85% of the English words are of French origin because when the Normans invaded England, they replaced English intellectuals by French intellectuals
- french was the language of the educated and the ruling class
- If a language loses its standard, it's simplified
Why is English a "dissociated language"?
Because you can't use basic vocabularies to form new words but need vocabularies and education in order to advance to a sophisticated level of communication
When and where did Courtly Love emerge?
- 1180
- Southern France -> Northern France -> Germany -> Europe
What were the reasons for Courtly Love?
- Crusades, Virgin Mary and Primogeniture
Which medieval genres do the Canterbury Tales encompass?
- Fables
- Fabliaux
- Sermons
- Saint lives
- Romantics
Name Geoffrey Chaucer's most famous works?
- Canterbury Tales
- Troilus and Criseyde
Explain the term "Natureingang"
- Introductory passage of medieval poems
- Leitmotiv = Nature
- "If nature awakes, love awakes
Why are the Middle Ages called the Middle Ages?
Because they are in between Ancient times (449-1066) and the Renaissance (1350/1500-1603)
Why do we have two dates concerning the beginning of the Renaissance?
Because the Renaissance started in Italy in 1350 and in 1500 in England
Why does the Renaissance start in Italy?
- Money
- City states
- Location ( center of European arts and culture)
- Proximity to Greece,
- Proximity to the Alps
What are the main concepts of the Renaissance?
- Science, inductive Method
- Man as the perfect being, as perfect as a circle
- Man are released from the guilt of God
