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The Book of Tells - Peter Collett
How to Read People's Minds from Their Actions.
British
Literature
&
American
Literature
BY
LEILA
BORGES
I
SUMMARY
THE
OLD
ENGLISH
MAP..............................................................................................................................6
USEFUL
INFORMATION
TO
STUDY
LITERATURE........................................................................................8
Taking
Notes ..........................................................................................................................................8
Essay
Planning......................................................................................................................................10
Case
against
censorship.......................................................................................................................11
Case
for
censorship..............................................................................................................................11
How
to
Summarize...............................................................................................................................11
Some
extra
tips....................................................................................................................................13
Qualities
of
a
character........................................................................................................................14
Author’s
tone.......................................................................................................................................15
ANALYSING
FICTION
/
LITERARY
TERMS..................................................................................................17
WHAT
IS
LITERATURE?.............................................................................................................................18
Literary
dictionary................................................................................................................................18
Forms
of
literature...............................................................................................................................18
Poetry...............................................................................................................................................18
Drama...............................................................................................................................................19
Essays...............................................................................................................................................19
Prose
fiction.....................................................................................................................................20
Other
prose
literature......................................................................................................................20
Genres
of
literature .............................................................................................................................21
Literary
genre...................................................................................................................................21
Subgenres ........................................................................................................................................21
Important
terms
for
poetry.................................................................................................................22
A
BRIEF
HISTORY
OF
THE
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE.......................................................................................29
History
and
Structure
of
the
English
Language ...................................................................................31
General
Considerations ...................................................................................................................31
Origins
and
Basic
Characteristics.....................................................................................................33
Characteristics
of
Modern
English...................................................................................................34
Phonology....................................................................................................................................34
Historical
Background..................................................................................................................35
Vocabulary...................................................................................................................................35
Old
English .......................................................................................................................................37
Middle
English..................................................................................................................................38
The
history
of
England
from
the
Norman
invasion
encapsulates
all
the
major
trends
of
the
times..40
The
Norman
Kings............................................................................................................................40
Henry
II.............................................................................................................................................41
Magna
Carta.....................................................................................................................................41
Edward
I...........................................................................................................................................42
The
1300’s........................................................................................................................................43
The
Lancasters .................................................................................................................................45
The
Wars
of
the
Roses.....................................................................................................................46
LITERARY
PERIODS
OF
BRITISH
AND
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
‐
SUMMARY............................................47
Periods
of
British
Literature.................................................................................................................47
Literary
Periods
of
American
Literature ..............................................................................................50
INTRODUCTION
TO
BRITISH
LITERATURE................................................................................................52
Anglo
Saxon
‐
literature.........................................................................................................................52
Poetry...............................................................................................................................................52
Prose ................................................................................................................................................53
Beowulf............................................................................................................................................54
II
Old
English
Poetry........................................................................................................................55
Plot
Overview...............................................................................................................................55
Characters....................................................................................................................................56
Who
wrote
Beowulf?...................................................................................................................58
The
Sutton
Hoo
Ship
Burial..........................................................................................................59
Politics
and
Warfare.....................................................................................................................59
Christian
Colouring
in
Beowulf....................................................................................................61
Middle
English
Literature.....................................................................................................................62
Geoffrey
Chaucer.............................................................................................................................65
John
Gower..................................................................................................................................68
The
vision
concerning
piers
the
plowman...................................................................................68
The
Wiclifite
Bible........................................................................................................................69
Geoffrey
Chaucer's
Canterbury
Tales..............................................................................................74
Chaucer's
Canterbury
Tales.............................................................................................................75
Chaucer's
Linguistic..........................................................................................................................76
Literary.........................................................................................................................................76
Chaucer's
English .............................................................................................................................76
The
general
prologue.......................................................................................................................77
The
Wife
of
Bath's
Tale........................................................................................................................93
The
Prologe
of
the
Wyves
Tale
of
Bathe
(with
the
translation)......................................................93
Comments......................................................................................................................................113
The
wife
of
Bath’s
Prologue.......................................................................................................114
The
Wife
of
Bath’s
tale...............................................................................................................114
Theme........................................................................................................................................115
The
English
Literature
as
a
part
of
General
Medieval
European
Literature..............................116
Literature
in
the
three
languages..............................................................................................116
Religious
Literature....................................................................................................................117
Secular
Literature.......................................................................................................................117
The
Romances................................................................................................................................118
Sir
Gawain
and
The
Green
Knight..............................................................................................120
The
End
of
The
Middle
Ages.
About
1350
to
about
1500 .................................................................121
The
first
fifty
years.
Political
and
social
conditions. ......................................................................121
'Mandeville's
Voyage'........................................................................................................................122
The
Fifteenth
Century........................................................................................................................122
The
'popular'
ballads......................................................................................................................122
Sir
Thomas
Malory
and
his
'Morte
Darthur.'.................................................................................123
William
Caxton
and
the
introduction
of
printing
to
England,
1476..............................................124
The
Medieval
Drama......................................................................................................................125
The
Sixteenth
Century.
The
Renaissance
and
the
Reign
of
Elizabeth...............................................128
The
Renaissance.............................................................................................................................128
The
Reformation............................................................................................................................130
Sir
Thomas
More
and
his
'Utopia'..................................................................................................131
The
English
Bible
and
Books
of
Devotion. .....................................................................................131
Wyatt
and
Surrey
and
the
new
poetry..........................................................................................132
The
Elizabethan
Period......................................................................................................................133
Prose
fiction...................................................................................................................................134
Edmund
Spenser,
1552
‐
1599.........................................................................................................135
Elizabethan
lyric
poetry .................................................................................................................138
The
sonnets....................................................................................................................................139
John
Donne
and
the
beginning
of
the
'metaphysical'
poetry........................................................139
of 00
American and british Literature
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