English Literature

Origin of English Literature

Origin of English Literature

English literature begins with the history of dark ages about 8th – 14th centuries comes to the forefront with own various types including epics, ballads, hymns and so on. The first examples of English literature were written in Anglo-Saxon’s language, which is the source of English speaking but should be considered almost another language. Almost all men of literature accept that English literature begins with Beowulf, … Read the rest

English Literature

Important Characters in English Literature

Important Characters in English Literature

Of course, we must know almost every writer who contributed to literature or helped to shape its frame. Let’s begin to know.

Geoffrey Chaucer

He wrote in all types of the poetry of the Medieval Ages and used English instead of Latin and French for the first time in literature in the palace. Lived in a transitional period, Chaucer tried to integrate old and new, … Read the rest

English Literature

How to study English Literature

How to study English Literature

Because of broad subjects, each student approaches to study with the prejudice in the first. Actually, the hardest thing is to begin. Because even Middle English Literature may be the reason to give up before it begins. Now we have prepared a few tips on how to study literature.
study english literature
Search the subject

Before you start studying, you have to decide where you begin with. Of … Read the rest

English Literature

Structure in English Literature

Structure in English Literature

English literature, based on many years of history, has many unique features. It has many literary products such as from novel to prose, from poem to the ballad, from hymn to elegy. Each of these has own characteristic feature, just as all of them has a different structure. Let’s look at them, what features do they have?

Structure in Novel

When we search structure, means composed … Read the rest

English Literature

Eras of the English Literature

To find out how many parts a literature has is the main point of beginning to study. In general division, English Literature has ten parts, Old English, Medieval English, Renaissance and Reformation, Restoration Literature, 18th century, Romantic literature, Victorian Literature, and modernism, but recent epoch postmodernism joined to the literature. Let’s give a little briefing about Eras of English Literature

norman-conquest

Old English Literature; this period continues from 450 … Read the rest

Themes in Literature

Parody and Satire Definitions and Examples

Parody Definition

A work created to mock or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humor and imitation.

Parody Examples :
weird al yankovic off the deep end
Weird al yankovic, Scary Movie Series, Monty Python

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

 

Parody examples are often confused as examples of Satire.Although Parody … Read the rest

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The Long Winter Overview and Review

In 1940,Wilder’s literary agent George By,wrote Wilder to tell her that he had sat up
until two o’clock in the morning reading the manuscript for’The Long Winter,’
and then had trouble going to sleep for thinking of the plight of the Ingalls family and that awful winter.
The book was published later in 1940 to critical acclaim.
For sheer gallantry,the story can’t be beat.It puts iron into the imagination.And full … Read the rest

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These Happy Golden Years: Literary Overview

Laura Ingalls Wilder considered ‘These Happy Golden Years’ the end of her ‘Little House’ series. The book was published in 1943,
14 years before her death in 1957.
She submitted no more manuscripts to Harper & Brothers, nor to her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who died in 1968,
25 years after “These Happy Golden Years’ was published.
The book is essentially a coming-of-age and a courtship novel.
Laura becomes a … Read the rest

Literary

What is literature?

Those who read the aesthetic (artistic ) written to provide a satisfaction , or even if such an objective can reach this level of formal and contextual features of all written works of literature is called . Literature is a form of expression . Thoughts and feelings beautifully and effectively be defined as the art of telling . Any text can be considered works of literature should carry artistic values … Read the rest