the short history of english literature

... Matters of Britain (King Arthur)  Matters of France (Charlemagne)  Matters of Rome (Alexander the Great)  See: Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Havelok the Dane, etc Piers the ... Translations of Italian and French as well as Latin and Greek  Travel Literature  Lyrical Poems  Thousands of lyrical poems  Introduction of the Sonnet The Sonnet  14 lines of rhymed iambic ... 4-line stanzas (abcb rhyme)  Oral history, written down much later  Robin Hood (The Geste of Robin Hood) Chaucer  1340-c.1400  French influence (The Romaunt of the Rose) - translation  Italian

Ngày tải lên: 01/12/2016, 23:03

... the world: American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno-English (Irish English), Indo-Pakistani English, Nigerian English, New Zealand English, ... Philippine English, Singaporean English, South African English - There are over billion speakers of English - There are around million words in English - Three most commonly used words: THE, OF, TO ... throughout the world: American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno -English (Irish English) , Indo-Pakistani English, Nigerian English,

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2016, 16:06

... as English, held that God spoke first to his Englishmen English literature is the literature of the English as well as literature in English Yet Milton wrote the official justification of the ... read English only Other literatures in English Since - at latest - the death of Henry James in 1916, Americans have not wished their literature to be treated as part of the history of English literature ... be ‘nine and twenty Other literatures in English ways of reciting tribal lays’, and there is certainly more than one way of writing a history of Is drama literature? English literature This Introduction

Ngày tải lên: 12/03/2017, 15:15

... in English 1362 – the English language became the language of Parliament, courts of law; later, at the end of the century – the language of teaching The rule of King Henry IV (1399-1413) – the ... English Lecture External history 1.1 The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English 1066 - 1200 1.2 The Re-establishment of English 1200 1500 1.3 The Middle English Literature 1.4 Middle English ... improvement in the condition of the mass of the people and the rise of a substantial middle class  The rise of another important group—the craftsmen and the merchant class By 1250 there had grown up in

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2021, 13:56

... uniformity has, of course, had a more general and diffuse effect on the historical description of English, chiefly in the form of emphasising the history of standard English, at the expense of 'vernaculars' ... variation, the appropriate chapters of the following are recommended: Baugh & Cable (1978), A History of the English Language, 3rd edn; Bourcier (1981), An Introduction to the History of the English ... 469) ' for the right of them all' (12) hare ba&re luue {St.Kath (Tit) 1212-13) ' the love of both of them' (13) her eitheres werke (Pal/adius (Tit) 808) ' the work of both (each) of them' When

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 13:40

... and the postponed verb in the last For increasingly ‘the Natural Order’ was equated with the English order As Brightland and Gildon put it: ‘the regular Connection of the Words in the Form of ... manners of behaviour’ rehearses the sequence an equal temper In addition, they guide the reader through the topic-flow of the discourse, the distal deictic that marking the receding topic, the ... gives the writer a means of distinguishing levels of textual or emotional distance (Huddleston 1984: 296–7) Some of these functions can be seen in the opening of Steele’s essay on The Death of a

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 13:40

... of the Father'), the sea (fisces epel' home of the fish', seolhbxp ' seal-bath', jpa geswing ' surge of the waves'), thunder {wolcna sweg 'sound of the clouds'), dragon {lyftfloga 'flier in the ... on the basis of already existing lexical material The most basic property of such new formations is their transparent, motivated status: on the basis of their structure and the meaning of the ... nature of the OE texts, which all come from the same type of social group and represent only the written language At the same time this limits the dimension of' attitude' to the formal level There

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... trace the history of the spread or decline of the selected features They also hope to explain those changes by relating them to contact among speakers of different varieties, to the mobility of ... Northumbrian kings the rulers of all England, while in another place he acknowledges the southern supremacy of the Mercians King Ceolwulf and Bede knew the power of the written word They would probably ... interviews, tape recordings collected from a number of controlled settings Because of the nature of the sources and our distance from them, the study of Old English dialects must proceed along very different

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 14:20

... day there will be shown to us the visible heaven and the angels' glory, the fall of all creatures and the ruin of the earth, the strife of the faithless and the fall of the stars, the noise of ... sign of the undeveloped state of the language, others have seen it as a deliberate choice of a mode of language appropriate to the genre (cf Clark 1971) The existence of more complex prose in other ... detailed look at the practice of individual writers, the works of the Alfredian period show well the range of possibilities in the language of literary prose At one extreme is the Anglo-Saxon

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 14:20

... with the basic technique of the alliterative line, re-emerges in La3amon at the end of the twelfth century and again in the alliterative revival in the middle of the fourteenth century. FURTHER ... The name of a person, cf. idionym. aorist One of the past tense forms of the Greek verb, usually represented in English by the simple past. In linguistic discussions the issue is most often the ... 19 72 'The significance of the distribution of English place-names in -ham in the Midlands and East Anglia' Journal of the English Place-Name Society 5 .15 -73 19 75 'The place-names

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 14:20

... chronological basis,the English of the rest of the world is treated geographically toemphasise the spread of English over the last three hundred years.Volume II covers the Middle English period, ... 31centuries following the Conquest One of the best of these is The Owl and the Nightingale, probably written at the beginning of the thirteenthcentury in the south-east of the country (Stanley 1960) This ... It was with great regret that the General Editor, the Editor and the contributors to the first two volumes of the Cambridge History of the English Language learned of Cecily Clark's death on 26

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 14:20

... bird, hurt and the like The early loss — and continued absence — of such vowels is a southeastern mainland English phenomenon The loss of these vowels in the ancestor of the southern standard ... feip, etc Further, because of the different development of OE / a : / in the north and south, a number of categories that fell together in southern /DU/ remained separate in the north: southern grow, ... The Middle English length system did not allow for diphthongal length contrasts of the Old English type, e.g **/DU/ VS /OU/, one behaving like a short vowel and the other like a long Middle English

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 14:20

... the name of the first historian of England, certainly the credit of making, in his History of the Turks (1604), a step from the loose miscellany of the chronicle to the ordered structure of the ... called a man of the world But in the world of literature he is a very great man indeed Very few theological books have made themselves a place in the first rank of the literature of their country, ... many of them were contributors of commendatory verses to each other's work and of pieces of different descriptions to the poetical miscellanies of the time Of these miscellanies and of the chief...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... of some thegn, first for himself and then for his land The jurisdictional rights of the king also passed to the lord, whether church or thegn; then came the danegeld, the tax for buying off the ... those of the bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock of the manor, saw to the manuring of the land, kept a tally of the day's work, had charge of the granary, and delivered therefrom ... the practice of the conquerors also they readily fell in with the system they found [1] These English, unlike their descendants of to day, were a race of countrymen and farmers and detested the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... century of religious change belongs the greater part of the literary history of the English Bible and of the ritual books of the English Church Since the suppression of the Wiclifite movement the ... universal history from the beginning, on the basis of the Biblical narrative Most important of all for their promise of the future, there were the germs of the modern drama in the form of the Church ... making English poetry admittedly the greatest in the modern world THE ENGLISH DIALECTS The study of the literature of the period is further complicated by the division of English into dialects The...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... (amongst others) emphasize the diversity of the speakers who make up the English language’ Rather than a seamless synecdoche of the history of English with the history of the standard variety, the ... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre -history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English ... for the diversity of the history of English, enabling a variety of perspectives on the reconstruction of the past to be adopted and applied The examination of social networks and chains of linguistic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:31

... making English poetry admittedly the greatest in the modern world THE ENGLISH DIALECTS The study of the literature of the period is further complicated by the division of English into dialects The ... universal history from the beginning, on the basis of the Biblical narrative Most important of all for their promise of the future, there were the germs of the modern drama in the form of the Church ... knowledge of the events of the period THE ROMANCES But the chief form of secular literature during the period, beginning in the middle of the twelfth century, was the romance, especially the metrical...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... and the tales of the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Merchant, the Franklin, the Pardoner and the Nun’s Priest; less often, those of the Cook, the Reeve, the Man of Law, the Friar, the ... prophecy of the subjection of the Geats by the Franks or the Swedes The Geats build a funeral pyre for their leader Then the warriors rode around the barrow Twelve of them in all, athelings’ sons They ... heart when the leading-forth From the house of flesh befalls him at last This was the manner of the mourning of the men of the Geats, Sharers in the feast, at the fall of their lord: They said...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2016, 17:22

... POETRY THE NATIONAL EPIC THE EPIC OF ANTIQUITY ROMANCES OF LOVE AND COURTESY The literature of the Middle Ages is an expression of the spirit of feudalism and of the genius of the Church From the ... or legends of Judas, of Pilate, of the Cross, or, again, from the life of the Blessed Virgin The literary value of these is inferior to that of the versified Lives of the Saints About the tenth ... cycle of the king (Charlemagne), or that of William of Orange, or that of Doon of Mayence The second of these had, indeed, a genuine cyclic character: it told of the resistance of the south of France...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... (FDIC) oversaw the takeover of the failed bank IndyMac, the largest failure of an insured bank in history The FDIC completed the sale of IndyMac in March of 2009 The FDIC also authorized the Temporary ... worth of lobbying efforts on behalf of the finance industry The repeal of GlassSteagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in many ways it ratified the status quo of the time.21 Hands-Off ... the SEC regarding their assets and activities The system of voluntary regulation relied on the internal computer models of these firms, essentially outsourcing the job of monitoring risk to the...

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