English Literature

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    3Kinds of Literature David Saltergenre and ‘the promised end’

    Re- enterlear, withcordelia dead in his arms; edgar, captain, and others followinglear Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them soThat heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever!I know when one is dead, and when one lives;She’s dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass;If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,Why, then she lives.kent Is this the promised end?edgar Or image of that horror?
  • Period: 300 to 1400

    English Literature

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    410 Old English, Beowulf

    The story is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and becomes king of the Geats.
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    OZYMANDIAS

    I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said – ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desart Near them, on the sand,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;And on the pedestal, these words appear:My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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    NARRATIVE LITERATURE

    This chapter is concerned with the ways in which prose fictions deploy lan-guage. We might begin by asking how does ‘narrative language’ differ from other types of language?One useful point of entry into the topic of narrative language is to define what we mean by ‘narrative’ in the first place. ‘Narrative’ is often used quite loosely to refer to a story, any story, being related by a variety of means.
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    DRAMA 750

    Drama: An artistic medium in which physical impersonation is used to present the actions and situations of fictive characters to an assem-bled audience that hopes to be beguiled, stirred, amused, provoked or affected in some more profound way by the spectacle created.
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    READING 1200

    Reading in this latter sense is the main subject of this book; in fact, the entirety of The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature is an object lesson in reading technique. It teaches you to read poetry, narrative and drama. Study it from end to end and you will be equipped with the tools you need to get to work on almost any kind of literary text. But we also read non-literary texts: newspaper articles, reports and academic essays and monographs.