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English, American and postcolonial literature

English, American and postcolonial literature. Literature in contexts. Generic or genre context Poetry, drama, novel Epic, tragedy, lyric, comedy, and satire They tell us what sort of text we are dealing with Historical context Every work has a historical context

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English, American and postcolonial literature

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  1. English, American and postcolonial literature

  2. Literature in contexts • Generic or genre context • Poetry, drama, novel • Epic, tragedy, lyric, comedy, and satire • They tell us what sort of text we are dealing with • Historical context • Every work has a historical context • It belongs to a particular historical period

  3. Old English/Anglo Saxon • --- before the Norman conquest (1066) • Beowulf (circa 700) • Order vs disorder

  4. Middle English ? Medieval literature • 1066 – 1550 (approximately) • Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1400) • Markedly Christian • The Christian ideal vs the reality of life in this imperfect world

  5. Renaissance • 1500-1660 • Rebirth • Modern literature • Great changes • Elizabethan • Puritan • Restoration • 17thcentury: God as the true source of order: Milton

  6. Eighteenth century • Augustan/Neoclassic • Secularism • Religious poetry  social poetry • Pope and Dryden • Social life – individual life in society • Harmony and balance can be created within society • Order, logic, reason

  7. Romantic period • Neoclassicism vs romanticism • Harmony is in natural life • Feeling, emotion, individualism, nature • French Revolution • Poetry

  8. Victorian • Develops not reacts against romantic literature • Complex society • Novel than poetry • Industrial revolution • Dickens • realism

  9. 20th century • Wars • Elliot • Innovative and experimental in form • Modernist • American literature • Postmodern literature • Postcolonial literature • African American literature

  10. Each era = different values (figures)

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