british literature (from 19th cent. up to now)
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BRITISH LITERATURE (from 19th cent. up to now). ROMANTICISM (first half of 19th cent.). Romantic poetry two generations: „Lake school“ (Wordsworth, Coleridge) Byron, Shelley, Keats Romantic novel historical novel (Sir Walter Scott) gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BRITISH LITERATURE(from 19th cent. up to now)
ROMANTICISM(first half of 19th cent.)
• Romantic poetry– two generations:
• „Lake school“ (Wordsworth, Coleridge)• Byron, Shelley, Keats
• Romantic novel– historical novel (Sir Walter Scott)– gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley)
The Lake PoetsThe Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The second generation
George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
Other romantic poets
• William Blake: The Tyger
• Robert Burns
Historical novel
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
- Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- Richard I- Locksley
(Robin Hood)- Lady
Rowena
Gothic novel
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Women writers of 19th century
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
VICTORIAN LITERATURE(1837-1900)
• Charles Dickens– the greatest representative of critical realism
• Oscar Wilde– the Aesthetic movement, symbolism,
decadence
20th CENTURY LITERARY GENRES
• Social novel – saga • John Galsworthy
• Crime fiction • Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Agatha Christie
• Science fiction• H. G. Wells
• Modernism• Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence
• Social drama• George Bernard Shaw
• Dystopia• George Orwell, Aldus Huxley
• Allegorical novel• William Golding
• Fantasy• J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis
• Theatre of the Absurd• Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard
• Post-modern novel• John Fowles
• Campus novel• Kingsley Amis, David Lodge
• Spy novel• John le Carré, Ken Follett
• Thriller• Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth
• Science-fiction comedy• Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams
• Children´s literature• A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling
… and many others