Literature

• a body of writings especially approved by critics or anthologists and deemed suitable for academic study

• high brow vs. low-brow literature

• potentially elitist, classist and misrepresentative of various groups of people

• processes of canonization continue to exclude (indirectly and directly) certain texts

Homer,  Shakespeare , Austen

Epic

Elegy

Ballad

Love poetry

Lyric

Pastoral

Light verse

iamb (most used)

anapest

dactyl

trochee

"e'er" instead of "ever" (shortened)

no meter no rhyme

meter but no rhyme

Femine rhymes end on an unstressed syllable,

masculine on a stressed syllable

• tenor: the object or idea described in a metaphor

vehicle: the object or idea called upon to illuminate that object

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." (Shakespeare)

• Tenor: The world/life.

• Vehicle: A stage.

1500-1660

Includes Elizabethan and Jacobean Era

Authors

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

Renaissance

-> (Neoclassicism / Enlightenment)

Paradise lost (1667)

Pilgrims Progress (1678)

Don Quixote(1605)

Poststructuralism

Marxist Literary Theory

New Historism

Feminist Criticism

Literature can be broadly defined as any written or spoken work that has artistic value.

(this can include poems, novels, short stories,….)

Can be fictional or non fictional

Golden Age of english literature

Emily Brontes

Charles Dickens

Oscar Wilde

William Thackeray

Works

The Importance of being Earnest

Jane Eyre

A Christmas Carol

1837-1901

Intertextuality means that a text is shaped by other texts — it refers to, echoes, rewrites, or responds to earlier works of literature.

In other words:

No text exists in isolation.