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BRITISH LITERATURE (from 19th cent. up to now)

BRITISH LITERATURE (from 19th cent. up to now). ROMANTICISM (first half of 19th cent.). Romantic poetry two generations: „Lake school“ (Wordsworth, Coleridge) Byron, Shelley, Keats Romantic novel historical novel (Sir Walter Scott) gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley).

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BRITISH LITERATURE (from 19th cent. up to now)

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  1. BRITISH LITERATURE(from 19th cent. up to now)

  2. ROMANTICISM(first half of 19th cent.)

  3. Romantic poetry • two generations: • „Lake school“ (Wordsworth, Coleridge) • Byron, Shelley, Keats • Romantic novel • historical novel (Sir Walter Scott) • gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley)

  4. The Lake PoetsThe Lyrical Ballads William WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge

  5. The second generation George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

  6. Other romantic poets • William Blake: The Tyger • Robert Burns

  7. Historical novel Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe - Wilfred of Ivanhoe - Richard I - Locksley (Robin Hood) - Lady Rowena

  8. Gothic novel Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

  9. Women writers of 19th century • Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice • Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre • Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

  10. VICTORIAN LITERATURE(1837-1900) • Charles Dickens • the greatest representative of critical realism • Oscar Wilde • the Aesthetic movement, symbolism, decadence

  11. 20th CENTURY LITERARY GENRES • Social novel – saga • John Galsworthy • Crime fiction • Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Agatha Christie • Science fiction • H. G. Wells • Modernism • Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence

  12. Social drama • George Bernard Shaw • Dystopia • George Orwell, Aldus Huxley • Allegorical novel • William Golding • Fantasy • J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis

  13. Theatre of the Absurd • Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard • Post-modern novel • John Fowles • Campus novel • Kingsley Amis, David Lodge • Spy novel • John le Carré, Ken Follett

  14. Thriller • Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth • Science-fiction comedy • Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams • Children´s literature • A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling … and many others

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