World-literature.pptx

Literature

1. World literature

2. introduction Word literature is used to refer to the sum total of the world’s national literatures, but usually it denotes the circulation of works into the either world beyond their country of origin. To be considered world literature, it has to speak to people of more than one nationality, hence it transcends borders.

3. Literary period Old Engish Literature- 450- 1150 Middle English Literature- 1150- 1500 The Renaissance 1500- 1650 The Restoration & 18 th Century 1650-1789 The Romantic Period 1789- 1837 The Victorian Age 1837-1901 Post Modern Age 1901- Present

4. Old English literature Three Conques Different Letters Different Grammar Different Spelling The Song of Beowulf

5. Middle English literature Bible Translations Geoffrey Chaucer: The Centerbury Tales

6. The renaissance literature FAMOUS AUTHOR DURING THIS PERIOD WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THOMAS MORE QUEEN ELIZABETH I EDMUND SPENCER

7. The restoration of 18 th century Age of reason Age of enlightenment Rise of the novel & journalism Age of satire Age of poetry

8. The romantic period Use of everyday language Imagination essential Overflowing emotions common Inspired by untamed nature & the exotic far east Folk traditions & medieval tales of knights Gothic novels

9. Victorian period Queen victoria Transition period Melancholic and political poetry

10. POST MODERN AGE LITERATURE OF THIS PERIODS EXEMPLIFIES THE IMPROVED CRAFTS OF MASTERS. THE NOVEL HAS FLOURISHED AND WRITERS HAVE RISEN NOT ONLY ON POPULARITY BUT TO DISTINCTION AS WELL.

11. GENRE GENRE- is the classification of a literary work by its form, content, and style into categories such as poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. From there, literature can be further classified into subgenres .

12. Types of Literary Genre Poetry  – this genre consists of writing that follows meter and rhythm for every line written. Another feature of the poetry genre is that writing is organized into schemes such as stanzas, meter, and/or rhyme. Subgenres of poetry include epic poem, narrative, romantic, dramatic, and lyric.

13. Example of poetry Paradise Lost  by John Milton is an epic poem

14. Types of Literary Genre Drama  – this is a type of literature that is meant to be performed in front of an audience. Subgenres of drama include comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy. Romeo and Juliet  by William Shakespeare is a drama. Specifically, it is a tragedy.

15. Types of Literary Genre Prose  – the prose genre of literature consists of complete sentences organized into paragraphs. Prose writing is focused around telling a story consisting of characters and a plot. Prose subgenres include fiction and non-fiction. The Year of Magical Thinking  by Joan Didion is an example of prose. Being a memoir, it would be considered non-fiction prose.

16. Types of Literary Genre Fiction  – this literary genre consists of writing that is not real. Often, fiction writers rely on the complexity of figurative language in order to create completely untrue events, characters, and settings which stimulate readers’ imaginations. To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee is a fictional novel with a narrative plot structure.

17. Types of Literary Genre Nonfiction  – the nonfiction category is a genre in which writing ranges from academic papers to creative works. Nonfiction can be used to inform and it can also be used to tell a narrative story, like in an autobiography or memoir. The Diary of a Young Girl  by Anne Franke is nonfiction, given that it is nothing more than a historical figure’s preserved diary.

18. 12 literary compositions The Bible or the Sacred writings : This has become the basis of Christianity originating from Palestine and Greece Koran:  The Muslim bible originating from Arabia The Iliad and the Odyssey : These have been the source of Myths and Legends of Greece. They were written by Homer. The Mahabharata : The Longest epic of the world. It contains the history of religion in India. Voltaire, Candide : it depicts the religion and customs of English in early days. This originated from England and written by Chaucer The Epic of Gilgamesh:

19. 12 literary compositions 7. The Divine Comedy: (A Dante of Italy) . This shows the religion and customs of early Italians. 8. The Diary of a Madman; Lu Xun 9. Death and the King’s Horseman: Wole Soyinka 10. The Book of the Dead : This includes the cult of Osiris and the Mythology and theology of Egypt. 11. The Book of the Days : This was written by Confucius of China. This became the basis of Christian Religion. 12. One thousand and One Night of the Arabian Nights: from Arabia and Persia(Iran) . It shows the ways of government of industries and of society of Arabia's and Persians

20. The bible or sacred writings in literature The Bible is  the holy scripture of the Christian religion, purporting to tell the history of the Earth from its earliest creation to the spread of Christianity in the first century A.D. Major themes and characteristics.  The Bible is the literature of faith, not of scientific observation or historical demonstration .

21. The Bible has been providing the English men of letters spiritual themes and also modulated their literary style . It has gifted ample vocabulary, most beautiful quotations, maxims and phrases. The whole range of English language and literature is much indebted to the Bible for its dignity and richness.

22. Genre of bible Narrative/ historical . The Bible contains narrative throughout most of its books. These report accounts or stories of events or people as they encounter God, sin against each other or live out their lives. The Bible is  among the most influential literary works of art , containing stories, songs, biographies, and many other artistic forms.

23. Why should we read the Bible as literature? Because its literary format requires it. C. S. Lewis sounded the keynote when he wrote in Reflections on the Psalms that “there is a sense in which the Bible, since it is after all literature, cannot properly be read except as literature; and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are.”

24. Quar’an (KORAN)

25. THE BOOK OF THE DAYS

26. Philippine Literature