Practice One
Task One: (7.5 pts) Fill in the gaps with the following words according to their definitions: Old English - Elizabethan Literature - Victorian Literature - Realism- Modernism
1) ………………………….: It is a conscious break from the past and a search for new ways of expressing oneself. Started by the Industrial Revolution and fueled by urbanization, the movement originated in Europe, with Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Robert Musil. It was also heavily influenced by the horrors of World War I.
2) …………………..………: It encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles and others.
3) …………………………….:It is characterized by the expanding horizons of education and literacy, as well as by an increased desire of the people to question religion and politics. During this time period, publications such as Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859, served as catalysts for political and religious controversy.
4) ………………………:Its emphasis is on detachment, objectivity and accurate observation. It focuses on social issues, struggles of everyday life, truths of everyday life, and focus on mostly middle- and lower-class people.
5) ………………………...: A body of works probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature. It saw the flowering of poetry (the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse), was a golden age of drama (especially for the plays of Shakespeare).
Task Two: Illustrate which literary movement these British writers belong to, and then mention one of their popular books (7.5 pts)
a- William Shakespeare –b-Agatha Christie -c- Charles Dickens-d- Jane Austen –e- George Orwell
Task Three: (5 pts) Which literary movement are we currently in: Modernism, Postmodernism orPost-Postmodernism?Explain and highlight its main characteristics and themes.
Solution
Task One: (7.5 pts) Fill in the gaps with the following words according to their definitions: Old English - Elizabethan Literature - Victorian Literature - Realism- Modernism
1)- Modernsim : It is a conscious break from the past and a search for new ways of expressing oneself. Started by the Industrial Revolution and fueled by urbanization, the movement originated in Europe, with Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Robert Musil. It was also heavily influenced by the horrors of World War I.
2)- Old-English : It encompasses literature written in Anglo-Saxon during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles and others.
3)- Vicorian Literature : It is characterized by the expanding horizons of education and literacy, as well as by an increased desire of the people to question religion and politics. During this time period, publications such as Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859, served as catalysts for political and religious controversy.
4)-Realism Its emphasis is on detachment, objectivity and accurate observation. It focuses on social issues, struggles of everyday life, truths of everyday life, and focus on mostly middle- and lower-class people.
5)-Elizabethan Literature : A body of works probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature. It saw the flowering of poetry (the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse), was a golden age of drama (especially for the plays of Shakespeare).
Task Two: Illustrate which literary movement these British writers belong to, and then mention one of their popular books (7.5 pts)
a- William Shakespeare –b-Agatha Christie -c- Charles Dickens-d- Jane Austen –e- George Orwell
Literary movement | One Popular books | |
A)-Wiliam Shakespeare | Literary lizabethan | Romeo and Juliet. |
B) -Agatha Christie | Literary Moderinism | By the Pricking of My Thumbs |
C)-Charlie dickens | Literary Realism. | The Pickwick Papers (1837) |
D)- Jane Austen | Literary Realism. | Sense and Sensibility. |
E)- George Orwell | Literary Modernism | Keep the Aspidistra Flying. 1984 |
Task Three: (5 pts) Which literary movement are we currently in: Modernism, Postmodernism or Post-Postmodernism?Explain and highlight its main characteristics and themes.
The literary movement we currently in are Somewhere Post Modernism
Main characteristics and themes
Postmodernism refers to a reaction against modernism. It is less a cohesive movement than an approach and attitude toward art, culture, and society.
Its main characteristics include anti-authoritarianism, or refusal to recognize the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be; and the collapsing of the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, and between art and everyday life. Postmodern art and architecture can be also characterized by a deliberate use of earlier styles and conventions, and an eclectic mixing of different artistic and popular styles and mediums.
