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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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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Suggestions for World Literature Assignment #2 Following is a list of possible topics for your paper; you are not limited to these‚ but please get approval of a different or variant topic. Assignment 2 A: Comparative Study This assignment consists of a comparative study based on one world literature work studied in Part 1‚ Part 3 or Part 4 of the course‚ and one language A1 work chosen from any part of the course. Unlike assignment 1‚ this assignment MUST NOT BE BASED ON TWO WL works.
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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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WHY STUDY LITERATURE? Many students are studying literature at universities all over the world. Each of them must have her own reason to do so. Some of them have chosen the course on their own free will and some on external forces such as parents’ force‚ their diploma score’s force‚ etc. But those who have chosen to study literature on their own free will must have some strong reason‚ because the literature as an academic major is a bit different from other majors regarding its usage. Actually
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Literature in the Language Classroom Traditional Approaches The teaching of literature has recently been resurrected as a vital component of English language teaching. Over the past few decades‚ there has been much discussion on the value of attempting to teach any kind of literature‚ whether it be the classics or any imaginative work written in English‚ as part of an English language syllabus. For instance‚ in the sixties and seventies‚ there was a distinct reaction against the use of any literary
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TWO ASPECTS OF LITERARY STUDY. Such a study of Literature as that for which the present book is designed includes two purposes‚ contributing to a common end. In the first place (I)‚ the student must gain some general knowledge of the conditions out of which English literature has come into being‚ as a whole and during its successive periods‚ that is of the external facts of one sort or another without which it cannot be understood. This means chiefly (1) tracing in a general way‚ from period to period
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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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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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Time Frame of Philippine Literature 1. Period of Re-orientation (1898-1910) 2. Period of Imitation (1910-1925) 3. Period of Self Discovery (1925-1941) 4. Postwar Re-orientation (1945)5. The Rebirth of Freedom (1946-1970) 6. Period of Activism (1970-1972) 7. Peiod of the New Society (1972-1981) 8. Period of the Third Republic (1981-1985) 9. Contemporary Period (1986) Differentiate Literature from History History and literature are two important subjects to choose from when one has decided
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