The focus of this article is on literature in the English language from anywhere‚ not just the literature of England‚ so that it includes writers from Scotland‚ the whole of Ireland‚ Wales‚ as well as literature in English from former British colonies‚ including the US. However‚ up until the early 19th century‚ it deals with the literature written in English of Britain and Ireland. English literature is generally seen as beginning with the epic poem Beowulf‚ that dates from between the 8th to the
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination® CAPE® LITERATURES IN ENGLISH SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May-June 2012 CXC A15/U2/10 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related to the syllabus
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Periods of English Literature. For convenience of discussion‚ historians divide the continuity of English literature into segments of time that are called "periods." The exact number‚ dates‚ and names of these periods vary‚but the list below conforms to widespread practice. The list is followed by a brief comment on each period‚ in chronological order. 450-1066 Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500 Middle English Period 1500-1660 The Renaissance (or Early Modern) 1558-1603 Elizabethan
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would be the dry river bed that motivates and modifies our conscious understanding of ourselves and the world (the water of the river) from which emotions‚ attitudes and ideas arise. It is possible to track the use of archetypes in universal literature‚ according to Joseph Campbell[3]‚ from the origins of human civilization. Archetypes help Chaucer to his main purpose when writing The Canterbury Tales: to reflect on the personal concerns and solutions of the evolving medieval society of his time
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CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE * Formal/Stylistic characteristics Juxtaposition‚ irony‚ comparisons‚ and satire are important elements found in modernist writing. Modernist authors use impressionism and other devices to emphasize the subjectivity of reality‚ and they see omniscient narration and fixed narrative points of view as providing a false sense of objectivity. They also employ discontinuous narratives and fragmented plot structures.]Modernist works are also often reflexive
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western’s thoughts on evil. There are two types of evil‚ moral‚ and natural evil. Moral evil is all things that are bad and we hold morally responsible‚ and Natural Evil are those terrible things that happen naturally. An example of natural evil are hurricanes‚ tornados‚ sink holes and floods‚ because they all occur naturally which is out of our hands. Both cause human and animal suffrage which both are prevalent in are world. If god is all perfect‚ and good‚ why would he allow such evils to exist? First
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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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natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two languages spoken in England. Norman French was the birth-tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower. When
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Good vs Evil Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story is a about determinant beliefs and an epic struggle between good and evil. Young Goodman Brown faces some real evils‚ but also has to face his own devilish side‚ his temptations‚ his anger and his family’s history of cruelty. Hawthorne’s character‚ Young Goodman Brown‚ leaves the reader with the impression that "GOOD-MAN" is the focal character that symbolizes his will to be the noble person‚ in the battle between good and evil. Young Goodman Brown’s
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yearned for his death. However one day he surprised everyone with an announcement about him starting all over. After his transformation one of his henchmen had the courage to ask him what made him change? And the king answered‚ “As I was galloping through my forests I caught sight of a fox being chased by a hound. The fox escaped into his hole but not before the hound had bitten into its leg and slammed it for life. Later I rode into a village and saw the same hound there. It was barking at a man.
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