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Title: BRITISH LITERATURE I


1
BRITISH LITERATURE I
VY_32_INOVACE_14-12
  • Old English Literature
  • Medieval Literature

2
Old English literature
  • AngloSaxon literature
  • (Germanic influence) / sounds like Norse lang.
    now
  • 5th - Anglo-Saxon invasion 
  • 6th - Christianity spread by monks from Rome,
    churches built, Latin words brought
  • priest, monk, candle, school written in Latin,
  • later liter. written in Old English 
  • 8th 11th cent. poetry and prose
  • secular and religious
  • lyric and epic
  • genres war poems, heroic epics

3
Old English poetry
  • secular poetry 
  • unknown author - Beowulf
  • the first literary masterpiece , 8th cent.
  • oral tradition remembering
  • kenning compound words
  • battle sweat blood, whale road sea, water
    ropes waves
  • alliteration the first letter is repeated
  • First frightened Frank fled
  • rhyme
  • religious poetry 
  • CAEDMON Caedmons Hymn  

4
Beowulf - manuscript
Beowulf
  • Autor neznámý, Název Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg
  • Zdroj http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileBeo
    wulf.firstpage.jpeg
  • Autor neznámý, Název Beowulf challenged by the
    coastguard by E Paul.jpg
  • Zdroj http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileBeowulf_c
    hallenged_by_the_coastguard_by_E_Paul.jpg

5
Old English prose
  • Venerable BEDE (673-735)
  • The Ecclesiastical History of English Nation
  • in Latin
  • Aelfric GRAMMATICUS (950-1020)
  • religious prose, dictionary Ang.-Saxon x Latin
  • Alfred the GREAT (849-901)
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  • - life, history, language of that time

6
Medieval literature
  • 1100 1500
  • romances of chivalry, chronicles, legends King
    Arthur
  • English influenced by French grammar,
    vocabulary
  • reforms in religion
  • John WYCLIFF The Wycliff Bible
  • Geoffrey CHAUCER (1343 1400)
  • greatest poet of Middle Ages, father of English
    poetry
  • Poets Corner
  • philosopher, alchemist, astronomer
  • influenced by Petrarch and Boccaccio, French and
    Italian
  • Romance de la Rose
  • Troilus and Cressida
  • Canterbury Tales
  • unfinished collection of comic and moral stories
  • 30 pilgrims
  • London Canterbury

7
Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Autor neznámý, Název Geoffrey Chaucer (17th
    century).jpg
  • Zdroj
  • http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileUnited_King
    dom_relief_location_map.jpg

8
Other medieval literature
  • drama
  • legends
  • Will. Wallace, Robin Hood
  • Sir Thomas MALLORY Le Morte d Arthur
  • Will. CAXTON printing press - 1476

9
Thank you for your attention.
  • Autor DUM Mgr. Darina Sikorová
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