Úvod
Sekce obsahuje podklady ke zkoušce z Britské literatury 3. Oficiální seznam témat ke zkoušce neexistuje, tudíž jsem podle sekundární literatury vytvořila vlastní seznam, který by měl zcela pokrývat náplň zkoušky z tohoto předmětu. Pro snazší orientaci zařazuji seznam názvů témat spolu se jmény autorů zahrnutých pod daným tématem. Viz první záznam této sekce pod názvem "Overview".
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Britská literatura 3
An Overview of Topics and Authors
Background to Topics (1) to (3): The Middle Ages
(1) Anglo-Saxon England
- Anglo-Saxon Culture, Old English Poetry: St Augustine of Canterbury, the Venerable Bede, "Caedmon's Hymn", "The...
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Background to the Middle Ages
Chronology
Prehistory: The Iberians, the Picts; the creation of the Stonehenge
5th century B.C.: The Celts, the Gauls; evidence in the language: e.g. bog, glen and many proper nouns; the origin of...
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(1) Anglo-Saxon England
- Britannia = the name derived from the Celtic-speaking inhabitants, the Britons; used when England was a province of the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 5th century
- England = derived from the...
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(2) Anglo-Norman England
- Normans = the name is a contraction from Norsemen, the people were descendants of Germanic adventurers who occupied much of northern France in the 10th century
- Normans adopted the French language...
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(3) Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400)
Medieval Society Stratification
- medieval society was made up of three estates:
> the nobility, a small hereditary aristocracy, whose mission on earth was to rule over and defend the body...
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Background to the Sixteenth Century
Chronology
1455 - 85: Wars of the Roses, struggle for royal power between the noble houses of York and Lancaster
1485: Accession of Henry VII, beginning of Tudor dynasty
1509: Accession of Henry...
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(4) Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
Life and Career
- unlike his contemporary courtier poets Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, or Sir Walter Raleigh was born to parents of modest means and status, nonetheless received an impressive...
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(5) Tudor Literature
John Skelton (c. 1460 - 1529)
- a rhetorician, translator, Latin teacher to young Henry VIII, political pamphleteer, satirist, and ordained priest
- his poetry draws on the long tradition of medieval...
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Background to Literature between 1603 and 1660
Chronology
1603: Accession of James I, beginning of Stuart dynasty
1605: The Gunpowder Plot, a failed effort by Catholic extremists to blow Parliament and the king
1625: Accession of Charles I
1629:...
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(6) William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Life and Career
- born in the small market town of Stratford-on-Avon as the son of a successful glovemaker, landowner, moneylender, and dealer in agricultural commodities
- his father later suffered...
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(7) Jacobean Literature
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
Life and Career
- the first English professional writer to invest that role with dignity and respectability
- collected his plays and poems under the title Works (1616), the...
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(8) The Metaphysical Poets
Metaphysical Poets
- a label used for a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century
- the term was first applied by Samuel Johnson in the 18th century to describe the supposed contortions...
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(9) John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Life
- educated at St Paul's and at Cambridge which he entered with the intention to become an ordained priest
- gave up the career of priesthood for the lack of reformation and the corruption he...
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(10) Seventeenth Century Philosophy and Science
New Genres
Autobiography and Biography
- numerous diaries, memoirs, and journals kept by individuals newly emerge
- autobiographies were encouraged by Protestant and especially Puritan directives to...
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General Background to Literature from 1660 to 1790
Chronology
1659: Abdication of Richard Cromwell
1660: Return of Charles Stuart to England and his restoration to the English throne as Charles II
1666: The Great Fire of London
1673: The Test Act...
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