Western Literature

Difference Between the UK, Great

Britain, England, and Europe?
United Kingdom
Great Britain
England
Europe
 Difference Between the UK, Great Britain, England, and
Europe?
 While many people use the following terms interchangeably, there is a
difference between them – United Kingdom is a country, Great Britain is an
island, England is a part of an island and Europe is a continent.

 The United Kingdom is an independent country off the northwestern coast of

Europe. It consists of the entire island of Great Britain and a northern part of
the island of Ireland.

 Infact, the official name of the country is the "United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland."
 Religion
Literary Features
is virtually the only concern of ancient Hebrew literature.

 For the Hebrews, God is the One Creator of the universe and mankind is His favorite
creation.

 Linked to this monotheistic idea is an ethical doctrine with such concepts as faith, justice,
mercy, holiness, and humility.

 The Bible is the representative work of this ancient Hebraic origin of Western literature.

 itcontains many types of Writing such as histories, biographies, folk tales, short stories,
songs, drama, and epistles
 In contrast, ancient Greek literature is secular and humanistic in nature.

 It embodies a mythology, a polytheistic system of gods and goddesses, but the deities are
anthropomorphic

 Connected with the mythological deities are the Greek heroes, who also manifest human
weaknesses as well as virtues.

 In this Heroic Age, the epic was the most distinctive type of literature
 Major Authors & Works
 The Old Testament ( 舊約聖經 , c. 950 B.C. - c. 150 B.C.)
It has in it a wide variety of literary forms and subject matter. It is
sometimes classified into six groups (history, prophetic books, lyric poetry, drama, wisdom literature, and
tales) or into five groups (songs, wisdom, oracles and prayers,narratives, and laws

 Homer ( 荷馬 , c. 800 B.C)

two of the world’s oldest and greatest epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are traditionally attributed to him.

 Hesiod ( 黑希和 , c. 750 B.C.)

Hesiod is known as the Father of Greek didactic poetry, but his life, like Homer’s, is little known. Two
important works are ascribed to him: Works and Days and TheTheogony.
 Literary Theory
 The body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature.

 Refers not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature
can mean.

 •A description of the underlying principles, one might say the tools, by which we attempt to
understand literature

 •Has sought to explain the degree to which the text is more the product of a culture than an
individual author and in turn how those texts help to create the culture.