From the Old English period through the Age of Reason
Author : Bernard D. N. Grebanier
Publisher :
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
English Literature and Its Backgrounds: From the Old English period through the Age of Reason
Author : Bernard D. N. Grebanier
Publisher :
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Book Description
The Way of All Flesh
Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
English Literature from the Old English Period Through the Renaissance
Author : J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615301100
Book Description
Details the evolution of literature during a period representing a staggering amount of change, moving from one-dimensional action stories and religious lessons to stories with subtleties of plot and character development.
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780415243179
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Beowulf
Author :
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111105
Book Description
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393334155
Book Description
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
The Enlightenment
Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0199591784
Book Description
This introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and political justice.
A History of the English Language
Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027293244
Book Description
This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of the language, it provides many example sentences, texts, and cartoons that are analyzed for the benefit of the student and which make this book ideal for class use. Some language-external topics are covered such as early printing and authorship debates. Tables and figures complement the material covered and exercises review the main points as well as ask further, more challenging, questions. Answers to the exercises are provided, as is a time line listing some of the external events, and some guidance on how to use the OED. Complementary web site information is provided throughout the book, and a companion web site accompanies the book. This book has a companion website: www.historyofenglish.net
Canterbury Tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 1903
Category :
ISBN :
