The document discusses world literature and English literature through history. It covers major periods of English literature from Old English to the modern period. It also discusses genres of literature such as poetry, drama, prose, fiction and non-fiction. Several famous authors and works are mentioned as examples. The Bible is discussed as one of the most influential works of literature globally due to its widespread religious influence and use of various artistic forms.

2. Word literature is used to refer to the sum
total of the world’s national literatures, but
usually it denotes the circulation of works
into the either world beyond their country of
origin.
To be considered world literature, it has to
speak to people of more than one nationality,
hence it transcends borders.

3. Old Engish Literature- 450- 1150
Middle English Literature- 1150- 1500
The Renaissance 1500- 1650
The Restoration & 18th Century 1650-1789
The Romantic Period 1789- 1837
The Victorian Age 1837-1901
Post Modern Age 1901- Present

4. Three Conques
Different Letters
Different Grammar
Different Spelling
The Song of Beowulf

5. Bible Translations
Geoffrey Chaucer:
The Centerbury Tales

6. FAMOUS AUTHOR DURING
THIS PERIOD
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
THOMAS MORE
QUEEN ELIZABETH I
EDMUND SPENCER

7. Age of reason
Age of enlightenment
Rise of the novel & journalism
Age of satire
Age of poetry

8. Use of everyday language
Imagination essential
Overflowing emotions common
Inspired by untamed nature & the exotic far
east
Folk traditions & medieval tales of knights
Gothic novels

9. Queen victoria
Transition period
Melancholic and political poetry

10. LITERATURE OF THIS PERIODS
EXEMPLIFIES THE IMPROVED
CRAFTS OF MASTERS. THE
NOVEL HAS FLOURISHED AND
WRITERS HAVE RISEN NOT ONLY
ON POPULARITY BUT TO
DISTINCTION AS WELL.

11. GENRE- is the classification of a
literary work by its form, content, and
style into categories such as poetry,
drama, fiction, and non-fiction. From
there, literature can be further
classified into subgenres.

12. Poetry – this genre consists of writing
that follows meter and rhythm for every
line written. Another feature of the
poetry genre is that writing is organized
into schemes such as stanzas, meter,
and/or rhyme. Subgenres of poetry
include epic poem, narrative, romantic,
dramatic, and lyric.

13. Paradise Lost by
John Milton is an
epic poem

14. Drama – this is a type of literature that
is meant to be performed in front of an
audience. Subgenres of drama include
comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy.
Romeo and Juliet by William
Shakespeare is a drama. Specifically, it is
a tragedy.

15. Prose – the prose genre of literature consists of
complete sentences organized into paragraphs.
Prose writing is focused around telling a story
consisting of characters and a plot. Prose
subgenres include fiction and non-fiction.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion is
an example of prose. Being a memoir, it would be
considered non-fiction prose.

16. Fiction – this literary genre consists of
writing that is not real. Often, fiction writers
rely on the complexity of figurative language
in order to create completely untrue events,
characters, and settings which stimulate
readers’ imaginations.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a
fictional novel with a narrative plot structure.

17. Nonfiction – the nonfiction category is a genre in
which writing ranges from academic papers to
creative works. Nonfiction can be used to inform
and it can also be used to tell a narrative story, like
in an autobiography or memoir.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Franke is
nonfiction, given that it is nothing more than a
historical figure’s preserved diary.

18. 1. The Bible or the Sacred writings: This has become the basis of
Christianity originating from Palestine and Greece
2. Koran: The Muslim bible originating from Arabia
3. The Iliad and the Odyssey: These have been the source of Myths
and Legends of Greece. They were written by Homer.
4. The Mahabharata: The Longest epic of the world. It contains
the history of religion in India.
5. Voltaire, Candide: it depicts the religion and customs of English in
early days. This originated from England and written by Chaucer
6. The Epic of Gilgamesh:

19.  7. The Divine Comedy: (A Dante of Italy). This shows the religion and customs of
early Italians.
 8. The Diary of a Madman; Lu Xun
 9. Death and the King’s Horseman: Wole Soyinka
 10. The Book of the Dead: This includes the cult of Osiris and the Mythology and
theology of Egypt.
 11. The Book of the Days: This was written by Confucius of China. This became
the basis of Christian Religion.
 12. One thousand and One Night of the Arabian Nights: from Arabia and
Persia(Iran). It shows the ways of government of industries and of society of
Arabia's and Persians

20. The Bible is the holy scripture of the Christian
religion, purporting to tell the history of the
Earth from its earliest creation to the spread of
Christianity in the first century A.D.
Major themes and characteristics. The Bible is
the literature of faith, not of scientific
observation or historical demonstration.

22. The Bible has been providing the English
men of letters spiritual themes and also
modulated their literary style. It has gifted
ample vocabulary, most beautiful quotations,
maxims and phrases. The whole range of
English language and literature is much
indebted to the Bible for its dignity and
richness.

23. Narrative/ historical. The Bible contains
narrative throughout most of its books. These
report accounts or stories of events or people
as they encounter God, sin against each other
or live out their lives.
The Bible is among the most influential
literary works of art, containing stories,
songs, biographies, and many other artistic
forms.

24. Because its literary format requires it.
C. S. Lewis sounded the keynote when he
wrote in Reflections on the Psalms that
“there is a sense in which the Bible, since
it is after all literature, cannot properly
be read except as literature; and the
different parts of it as the different sorts
of literature they are.”

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