15 english literature

15 Literary epoques, authors and genres for English lessons: typologies ●

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Most adequate literary époques, authors and genres to be used in English lessons Tipology of texts: poetry, drama, essay, prose fiction and literary texts in general

DUNN, O. (1982): Developing English with Young Learners, MacMillan.

ELLIS, G.; SINCLAIR, B (1998): Learning to learn English, CUP, Cambridge

LITERATURE ●

Oxford English Dictionary: “acquaintance with letters”

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Common meaning: a whole body of literary work, considering any form of writing, often related to a specific culture.

15.1. Most adequate literary époques, authors and genres to be used in English lessons ●

Difficult to read original works in Primary ---> better abridged editions or extracts

15.1.1. GENRES ●

Novels: extensive reading, individually, also at home.

Should be accopanied by comprehension exercises

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Poetry: intensive reading, in classroom, presenting the author, the topic and other interesting point as pre-reading. Vocabulary exercises or historic context accompaining.

Drama: in groups, bearing the difficulty of each character and the characteristics of each student. In the classroom.

15.1.2. ÉPOQUES AND AUTHORS Origins of English ●

Beowulf: the fight against monster Grendel

14th - 15th century ●

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, “The Squire's Tale” - arabian king that receives four magic presents.

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“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” poem. When Gawain cuts off the head of the Knight and the Knight runs away in his horse with his head in his hands.

Renaissance ●

Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queen (1580 – 1599).

Glorification of Queen Elizabeth

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Michael Draydon: Poly-Olbion (1613 – 1622).

Description of England and its history

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Robert Greene: Friar Bacon and Friar Brandy (1594) a comedy about a brass head that can speak with the devil

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William Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream (1596).

Two couples want to marry their loves, but not the ones chosen by their parents.

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Much ado about nothing (1598): similar to Midsummer's plot

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Macbeth (1623): short tragedy

17th century ●

John Milton: Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Samuel Pepys: Diaries

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Philip Massinger: The city madam. A Caroline perioed comedy about London life.

18th century ●

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719). He was an excellent student but because of his religion could not attend Oxford or Cambridge, so he became an international salesman and started to write fiction in this sixties. Great innovator in novels.

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Moll Flanders (1722)

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726). Humorous and

critical satire about the British and European society written by an Irish religious and political man.

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Samuel Richardson: Clarissa or the History of a young lady.

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Lawrence Sterne: Tristan Shandy (1759 – 1767). Highly

unconventional novel technique, enthusiastically received but also criticized because of its sexual treatment.

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A Sentimental Journey

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews (1742): first realistic novel in England

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: playwriter of Covent Garden Theatre.

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The Rivals

- The Duenna

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St Patrick's Day

- The School for Scandal

Ann Radcliffe: The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789). A novel about innocent, heroic women who find themselves in mysterious castles.

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The Sicilian Romance (1790), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Italian (1796)

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The Romance of the forest (1791): gothic romance leading exponent.

19th century ●

William Wordsworth: romantic poet. Lyrical Ballads (1798) –

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The Prelude: autobiographical poem, posthumously published.

Mary Shelley: Frankestein or the Modern Prometheus Charles Dickens: The pickwick papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1849), Great Expectations (1861).

Charlotte Brönte: Jane Eyre (1847). Focused on the emotional

development of a woman. Related to German Gothic Bildungsroman.

20th century ●

Eric Malpass: The long, long distances (1970). Family issues in the uncle's farm.

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Fynn: Hello Mister God, this is Anna. Story about love, god and happiness through a little girl that has contact with God.

21st century ●

Andrea Levy: Every light in the House Burnin' (1994) and Never far from nowhere (1996): London life through a Jamaican perspective

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Nick Hornby: magazine editor and novel criticist. Fever Pitch (1992), his memoir about Arsenal football club.

Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code (2004) Glenn Patterson: Burning your own (1988), Black night at Big Thunder mountain (1995), The International (1999).

Sara Bell: Written in the Stars, Marry me.

Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain (1996), Casanova (1998), Oxygen (2001), The Optimists (2005) David Mitchell: Ghostwritten (1999), Cloud Atlas (2004)

15.2. Typology of texts POETRY

Composition in verse.

Relies heavlity on senses, word choice and metaphors.

Has patterns of stress or length syllables May or not may have rhyme

In English poetry: most common: sonnet and the blank verse (Shakespeare, Milton) Ode, Lyric, Epic...

DRAMA

Dialogue between characters within a dramatic performance Tragedy is related to religious and civic festivals: history and mithology

ESSAY

Discussion of a topic from the author's Francis Bacon point of view: Charles Lamb ● Memoir ● Epistle (more formal, didactic)

PROSE FICTION

Not adhering any particular formal structure: novels, short stories...

Other

Autobiography / Biography Children's literature Diaries and journals Non—fiction Travel literature

Fiction, adventures, crime fiction, fable, fairy table, family saga, satire,

15.3. Working on communicative skills through literature â—?

Exercises proposed by the International Reading Association (IRA): read, write, think.

Fluency

Integrated curriculum

Literature study

Interactive Reading

Critical literacy Content reading

READ, WRITE THINK

Process writing

Research Vocabulary Genre study Comprehension

Language conventions Word recognition

Writing to learn