BRITISH LITERATURE I

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BRITISH LITERATURE I
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• Old English Literature
• Medieval Literature

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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

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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  

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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

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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

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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

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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Other medieval literature

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

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Thank you for your attention.

• Autor DUM Mgr. Darina Sikorová