TOPIC 15

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

2.1 ENGLISH LITERATURE

2.2. AMERICAN LITERATURE

4 TYPES OF TEXTS

  1. DIDACTIC APPLICATION
  1. COCNLUSION
  1. INTRODUCTION

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Reason for using literature: curriculum

Romantic P (18)

Victorian P (19)

Renaissance and Restoration (16-17)

20th C

Old and medieval (1-11)

21st C

Anonymous poems- Trobadours / hero

Beowulf / the Arthurian legend / chaucer: canterbury tales

influence of italy, greek, latin / printing press: Caxton

Renaissance: Elizabeth I / Edmund Spenser: Fairy Queen, Shakespear

Restoration: disputes king and parliament: republic Cromwell / J. Milton: paradise lose / J. Bunyan: the Pilgrim progress

industrial revolution / british empire

Dafoe: robinson Crusoe / Swift: Gulliver´s Travels /Blake: songs of innocence / J. Austen: Pride and PRejudice / M. Shelly: Frankenstein

Criticism to the industrial revolution

Dickens: a Christmas carol, Oliver twist / Stevenson: Treasure Island / Kipling: jungle book / Lewis Carrol: Alice´s adventures / Oscar Wilde: the Canterville Ghost

Development western societies / globalization / Children gained importance

B. Potter: the tale of Peter Rabbit/ CS Lewis: Narnia / J. Tolkien: the lord of the Ring / JK Rowling: Harry Potter

Films

Neil Gainman; Coraline / Cowell: how to train your dragon / Ian McEwan: machines like me / Hillary Mantel: Wolf hall

better understand A´literature and culture / not flourishing L until 18 C wh became independent

Nobel Prize

Highlight

Influential Nowadays

W. Irving: Rip Van Winkle, Tales of the Alhambra / Edgar Allan Poe: the raven / H. Melville: Moby Dick / M. Twain: Tom Sawyer

W. Faulkner: The sound and the Fury / J. Steinbeck: the Pearl / E. Hemingway: the old man and the sea / T. Morrison: Beloved

George RR MArtin: Games of Thrones / Stephen King: the Shining, IT

Skills and sub-skills: before, while after

CC: aladdin and the magic lamp

Reasons 5

Regarding content

Regarding format

Description, narration (poem, drama, poetry), exposition, argumentation, instruction

Continuous T, discontinuous T, mixed T

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