English Literature Students should study English Literature because literature is part of our cultural heritage‚ literary works can be entertaining‚ beautiful‚ funny‚ or tragic. They can convey profundity of thought‚ for instance like 《Macbeth》shows that the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints. Each literature has a themes that the author wants to show. Also students learn a lot of history and culture from the English literature. It takes them to new places
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Importance of literature Literature reminds us of stories‚ epics‚ sacred scriptures and classical works of the ancient and modern times. Literature is defined as the body of written works of a language‚ period or culture‚ produced by scholars and researchers‚ specialized in a given field. Why is literature important? Let us see. As stated in the quotation by C.S. Lewis‚ literature not only describes reality but also adds to it. Yes‚ literature is not merely a depiction of reality; it is rather
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APPRECIATION What is literature? a. Definition and functions of literature. b.Forms of literature (Oral and written with specific examples). c.The genre / branches of literature prose‚ drama and poetry with examples 3.ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE a. Synopsis – theme(s) plot‚ setting b. Synopsis continued Character‚ characterization‚ (human and animal). c.Language – 1st person narrator‚ 3rd person omniscient Narrator Or the Eye of God 4.GENRES / BRANCHES OF LITERATURE CONTINUATION
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African Literature‚ although unrecorded‚ dates back to ancient history. This is a research on the history and related concepts of how their culture began through their writings. Bird’s Eyeview African literature has more recently become more popular specially as it has greatly influenced the American literature. This website presents a general and more popular way of looking at the beginnings‚ development‚ influences on the literary works of the people of this culture-rich continent. What is Literature
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Children’s Literature It is hard to imagine a world without books for children. Ever since there were children‚ there has been children’s literature too. There have been children’s stories and folk-tales when man first learned to speak. Children’s books‚ however‚ are a late growth of literature. Miss Yonge says‚ "Up to the Georgian era there were no books at all for children or the poor‚ excepting the class-books containing old ballads and short tales". We shall nevertheless see that there were
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Virginia Woolf show his intellectual knowledge of and debt to 20th century modernist writing‚ it is McEwan’s ability to transform these stylistic and thematic elements and mold them into a postmodern classic that makes Atonement a more than adequate culmination to the readings of a 20th century British Literature course. Stylistically‚ McEwan draws most heavily from the works of Virginia Woolf for the opening portion of Atonement. The slow pace of the opening‚ allowing for the painstakingly detailed
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE Course Description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of literary study and analysis. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of poetry‚ drama‚ and fiction; basic literary terminology; and strategies for analyzing texts based on close reading. Students will also practice writing short literary analysis. Course Objectives • Develop your basic understanding on what literature and its
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The postmodern Since this book does not attempt to introduce different critical schools or historical periods of literature‚ it may seem inappropriate to include a chapter on the postmodern. In the following pages‚ however‚ we wish to suggest that this topic provides us with an invaluable set of terms for thinking about literary and other cultural texts‚ that to a significant degree it involves ways of thinking which are unavoidable in the twenty-first century. The word ‘postmodern’ itself
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LIVESmore... Panitikan: An Essay On Philippine Literature Philippine Literature started as a chant from tribes/ tribal chanting until the present time where in colonial days‚ the voices of the Filipinos against the Spaniards is voiced out through their native languages and through English (in verse and in prose). Development: riddles/ chanting/Through Voices/sound to written works such as verse and prose. - Indigenous Philippine Literature was born in the ethnic community -
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Presentation From the very beginning of human species‚ literature existed side by side. Human life‚ in the form of human passions‚ feelings‚ loves‚ sufferings‚ and human history existed in the literatures. Human legends started with the very stone age‚ recorded in the stone scripts. It was a human need to communicate the past to the future generations. Poetry‚ as an art form‚ has been for many centuries praised‚ contemplated and has continued to affect man.
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