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- 1. Why We Study Literature? What is literature? Literature is a
permanent expression in words of some thought or feeling or ideas
about life and the world
- 2. Kind of Literature Verse literature : Wordsworth ; Upon
Westminster Bridge Prose literature : London
- 3. Differences of Literature Literature is writing which
expresses and communicates thoughts, feeling and attitudes towards
life. - What about advertisement? - journalist - novelist
- 4. Good or Bad Literature Creative literature Serious
literature Imaginative literature
- 5. Good or Bad Literature Most of the literature produced in
the world is mediocre, some is bad, some is good and a very very
little is good.
- 6. Good Literature Psychology truth or holding the mirror up to
nature Technical skill or craftsmanship Originality Consciousness
of moral value
- 7. Literature can be helpful to the foreign student or visitor
who wishes to learn something about a particular region, and to
understand how human character and emotion are influenced by
natural surroundings.
- 8. Most of the worlds greatest literature can only be enjoyed
fully after repeated reading and much thought. Some books are to be
tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested. Francis Bacon
- 9. Reasons why students study literature: To appear cultured or
well read To pass an examination Trains students to pay attention
to printed words and think deeply about the meaning of what is
written To enjoy oneself To make oneself a better person
- 10. Plato The purpose of literature is to instruct. Sir Philip
Sidney Samuel Johnson
- 11. The total knowledge of life which any one person can get
through his own experience is extremely small. Through literature
he can use the experience of other people as well, so becoming what
Bacon called a full man tolerant, understanding and perhaps even
wise. Literature helps us toward a better understanding of
ourselves and our fellow human beings so the phrase Humanities is
used
- 12. Studying literature can lead to 2 dangers: The habit of
thinking too much about the literature of the past It often takes a
century or more to judge what position any piece of literature is
The books that stood the test of time are now accepted as great The
habit of spending too much time with books about books, and not
enough with original books However, if we do not have time or skill
to read a whole book, a shorten or simplified version is fine Books
about books do not make us lazy to read the original books,
instead, they encourage us to do so
- 13. English Literature : an introduction for Foreign Readers
R.J. Rees Chapter 2: Ballad, Epic and Other Narrative Poetry
p.20-35
- 14. A ballad is a poem or song that tells a story in short
stanzas and was originally a musical accompaniment to a dance.
Clerk Saunders Child ballad collected 69/305 Source:
www.bartleby.com/101/371.html
- 15. Most compose in dialect , many strange words, but its adds
to their charm because: Dont compare poetic-value of Ballad with
sophisticated poetry because Ballads have a strange poetic quality
of their own It is a narrative poem. It tells story
- 16. Characteristics unknown authorship, Particular poetry and
song of the British Isles passed on orally from one generation to
the next language use: Middle English to Early Modern English
Themes & subjects - Sex & Violence - Supernatural: Ghost,
Magic, witchcraft, superstition - Tragic - Historical - Romantic -
Comic Best Ballads came from Northern England & Southern
Scotland
- 17. Popular subjects Sex and Violence Children throw from
castle walls on to the sharp spears of besieging soldiers (Edom 0
Gordon) Guilty lovers surprised in their beds and bloodily murdered
Women who poison their husbands and sell their children Men
butchered in family quarrels and left on the road to be eaten by
dogs and crows Girls seduced and cruelly murdered
- 18. Examples Edom 0 Gordon (1571) from Child ballad collection
178/305 A terrible story of Gordons attack on the castle of the
Rodes while only his wife and her small children are at the castle.
->She will not surrender. ->Gordon sets fire. ->The little
girl is frightened by the flame and smoke and begs her mom to wrap
her up in sheets and throw her over the castle wall ->but Gordon
raise the point of Spear to pierce her to death
- 19. Examples of violence Hugh of Lincoln Edom 0 Gordon Examples
of supernatural the return of the dead to claim the love one Clerk
Saunders Child ballad collected 69/305 The daemon lover -Child
ballad collected 243/305 Wife of Ushers Well -Child ballad
collected79/305 Examples of historical, romantic, hero Robin Hood
-Child ballad collected 38/305 Less tragic and more humorous which
is attractive to young readers
- 20. Balladwillnever ever die! Unknown author: traditional
ballad Medieval English till 15th Century - collected by Francis
James Child known author: with traditional ballad style -Ballad of
reading Goal by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -Barrack Room ballads by
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - Victor and Miss Gee by W.H Auden
(1907- 1973) Modern Ballad - Present Century -The 1960s pop groups
made ballad famous with slow sentimental and romantic songs -
Passing from person to person by word of mouth, not by the printed
page. - Every life and the news of the day are popular subjects.
Strong characters
- 21. Tell a Story - in a very direct manner, and do not have to
be about love at all. Use Imagery - Ballads often use vivid and
expressive imagery in a detached manner to relay the tale. Put to
Music - A prominent characteristic of ballads is that they can
often easily be put to music. For example: Modern Ballad
UnchainedMelody by theRighteous Brothers I Can'tHelp Falling in
Love With You by Elvis Presley God Must Have Spent A Little More
TimeOn You by Nsync Candle inthe Wind by Elton John Faithfully by
Journey Hard to SayI'm Sorryby Chicago More ThanA Feeling byBoston
bridge Over TroubledWater by Simon and Garfunkel
- 22. Source:
http://listverse.com/2008/07/06/top-10-greatest-epic-poems/
- 23. What is an epic? The great Epic poets It is a poem like
Virgil-Aeneid and Milton- paradise lost 1908 - 1974 70B C- 19B
C
- 24. Balla d EPIC Born in a quiet, country place Simple form Has
stayed there simple story Keep all the charm of her natural
simplicity Add melody to live Heroic Poetry (Folk)Gone to larger
city Longer journey, many adventurous, war-like Meet news people
Having more characters, a background of Gods, Spirits who join in
action from time to time still keeps proud of Nationalistic and
Tribal feeling, Also is in sense public poetry . Change in talking
style Have the line rather than stanza which epic use elaborate and
formal language Diff Grow to
- 25. Characteristics Long poem about the doing of one or more
characters from history or legend Themes & subjects - Hero -
involve a large number of secondary character eg. Heros Assistants
- War-like - God and Spirit joining in the action from time to time
- story line is digressions and description High seriousness of
poets : high sense of duty and dedication => politician,
religious. Paradise lost reflects Milton religion and philosophy;
language use is difficult The poet is not only writing to express
his own thoughts and feelings but represent large group or
community like - Dante in Divine comedy =>Medieval Christianity
- Milton for English & European Protestantism
- 26. after Milton.. EPIC began to die ! Hero Achilles,
Agamemnon, Hector or Odysseus represented the highest ideals of the
Greek culture => These great heroes of traditional epic poetry
were once identified with their respective national cultures.
- 27. EPIC began to die ! after Milton to write an epic poem,
MUST > begin with an Invocation to either a God or a Muse. >
use the epic or Homeric simile. "like a __ when it ____." > be a
description of athletic contest or games, either in commemoration
of a dead hero or in celebration of a great victory. > mentioned
a long and dangerous journey undertaken by the hero Convention
Style
- 28. Modern Writers love FREEDOM Modern Readers love Simpler and
more direct narrative poetry Time to look at a simpler and direct
narrative poetry in the shape of the ballads Other Narrative
Poetry