Task 2 - English Literature Timeline Folder(Sandra Castro code: 1122134393, Course 551029A_611)
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500
Old English
Invasions of Germanic Tribes
More important than the Celts and the Romans for the development of the English language, though, was the succession of invasions from continental Europe after the Roman withdrawal. -
1100
Middle English
Middle English After the Normans During these Norman-ruled centuries in which English as a language had no official status and no regulation, English had become the third language in its own country. Geoffrey chaucer -
1400
the renqissance and the reformation.
The English Renaissance The next wave of innovation in English vocabulary came with the revival of classical scholarship known as the Renaissance. The English Renaissance roughly covers the 16th and early 17th Century (the European Renaissance had begun in Italy as early as the 14th Century), and is often referred to as the “Elizabethan Era” or the “Age of Shakespeare” after the most important monarch and most famous writer of the period. Christopher Marlowe
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The romantic age
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The Victorian Age
Nathaniel Hawth
emily Dickinson
Elizabeth
charlott Bronte
Lewis Carroll
Oscar Wilde
George Bernand
Mark Twain
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Modernism
Henri Matisse, The Dance, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism. Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
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Postmodernism
English as a Lingua Franca Any number of other statistics may be quoted, none of them definitive, but all shining some light on the situation. However, absolute numbers aside, it is incontrovertible that English has become the lingua franca of the world in the fields of business, science, aviation, computing, education, politics and entertainment (and arguably many others). Today
George Orvell
Slindair Lewis
William Faulkner
Virginia Wolf
John Steinbeck
