History of World Literature World Literature started as early as years before Christ’s death. The earliest forms of world literature were oral and passed on by word of mouth. As time passed‚ forms of writing were developed and were pictographic. Writing was not invented for writing down literature but it was invented for more administrative and political purposes. The first literary work was a heroic narrative named Gilgamesh. This work nearly vanished from history when it was not translated
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Indian literature Article Free Pass * Introduction * Related * Contributors & Bibliography Indian literature‚ writings of the Indian subcontinent‚ produced there in a variety of languages‚ including Sanskrit‚ Prākrit‚ Pāli‚ Bengali‚ Bihārī‚ Gujarati‚ Hindi‚ Kannada‚ Kashmiri‚ Malayalam‚ Oriya‚ Punjabi‚ Rajāsthānī‚ Tamil‚ Telugu‚ Urdu‚ and Sindhi. A brief treatment of Indian literature follows. For full treatment‚ see South Asian Arts: Literature. The earliest Indian literature took
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Medieval literature includes a great variety of comic tales‚ in both prose and verse‚ and in a variety of more or less distinct genres. For students of Chaucer‚ the most important comic genre is the fabliau (fabliau is the singular‚ fabliaux the plural). Chaucer’s Miller’s tale‚ Reeve’s Tale‚ Shipman’s Tale‚ Summoner’s tale‚ and the fragmentary Cook’s Tale are all fabliaux‚ and other tales -- such as the Merchant’s Tale -- show traces of the genre: "A fabliau is a brief comic tale in verse‚ usually
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of romance‚ which is the main literary category the poem belongs to. Chaucer`s extraordinary ability to combine‚ fuse and match different literary genres makes the Book of Troilus and Criseyde one of the masterpieces of Medieval English literature. The author‚ once come into contact with the French and Italian literary tradition‚ gives birth to a poem that is “distinctively and essentially sui generis” (Brown 186).
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“None arrest‚ but all brain-seke” Protest Psychosis in Hoccleve’s Compleint and Dialogus cum amico Medievalists do not often think they have much in common with those who teach the literature of the Civil Rights movement. But then I read Jonathan Metzl’s Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease and I wondered how a medievalist might use the central theme of his book. Metzl’s thesis‚ distilled from decades of medical records at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
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Feigned Power of Women Courtly Love: A medieval European concept of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration. To women‚ this was a life with a façade of power above men and men did all in their power to please. Perhaps there were positives‚ such as creating an overall respectable attitude toward women and providing a model for younger men on how to live‚ but it depicted some behaviors of men that are debatable. In medieval literature‚ courtly love allows women to be on a figurative
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Middle Ages played a specific role‚ that being the fact that they were guides to living a moral life. Middle literature was important for it stayed away from the mythological‚ and instead decided to live in the realm of actuality and fact. One would not read literature of Boniface and expect to come across magical potions‚ spells‚ and dragons‚ each of these things existing in the literature that was intertwined with courtly love. This can be seen in books such as the Romance of Tristan and other works
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glorification of heavenly love? Stamo Stamov Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is a poem that treats a couple of aspects about love typical for the genre of the medieval drama. The middle age literature divides the world to heavenly – a world of Christian virtue and perfection‚ and sublunary – the material world where people lives‚ a world where nothing is permanent and human personality is week and imperfect. So the Chaucer’s portray
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centuries of literature have depicted a variety of mentalities and lifestyles. . Centuries could pass‚ and not many changes could be easily perceived by the common man‚ as those changes came gradually. Yet those changes can be readily discerned when looking at England as a whole‚ not looking at parts of history individually. The alterations of life‚ when looked at from a certain literary viewpoint‚ can be explained when one looks at the different periods in English literature‚ seeing the depictions
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Before the concept of “courtly love” was discovered‚ the Middle Ages love was religious; either towards their creator and/or towards humankind as brothers and sisters. Love was also known more of a passion towards a desire or action rather than an intimate and emotional circumstances. During the Middle Ages‚ marriage was considered an arrangement for materialistic possessions such as money‚ property‚ hierarchy‚ etc. for both sides of the family‚ not necessarily love. Courtly love is essentially chivalry
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