Nunna John's English Literature Notes

  III Sem, English Literature Tragedy: It is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying Catharsis or pleasure in audience Catharsis is a Greek word.   It means purification or purgation or cleansing of emotions particularly pity and fear through art. Catharsis is a Metaphor originally used by Aristotle in the poetics in 335 BC (in Latin it is called De Poetica) Types of Tragedies -Greek Tragedy -Roman Tragedy -Elizabethan & Jacobean Tragedy -Revenge Tragedy -Tragic Comedy -Domestic Tragedy   -Greek Tragedy: It is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece. It became more significant in form in Athens in 5 th century BC.   It was performed in the honour of ‘Dionysus’. Greek tragedians named Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides established the basic rules of tragic drama. Aeschylus invented triology kind of drama in which a series of three tragedies tell one story and end with a Satyr play. Ancient Greek Tragedie...

  III Sem English Literature Drama Drama is one of the important genres of Literature. It is made to perform by actors on the stage. Elements of Drama. 1.Plot 2.Character 3.Dialogue 4.Setting 5.Theme 6.Conflict 1.plot Plot is the course of a story. it comprises a series of incidents which generally unfolded sometimes by an unexpected means. In Simple terms it is also called story line   Plot can be simple or complex. It may also be called tragic or comic. Tragic plot ends in a tragic manner and comic plot ends in a happy manner. 2.Character.   Character plays an important role in a Drama. Generally, A Novelist or A Dramatist conveys their thoughts or ideas in the drama with the help of the characters. Basically, there are two types of characters. They are -Flat Character -Round character -Flat Characters: Flat Characters do not change in the course of action. They don’t have any emotional depth in them.   - Round Char...

  III Sem English Literature Syllabus Unit – 1 Drama. Tragedy Comedy Mystery, Miracle and Morality Plays Epic Theatre Theatre of ideas   Unit 2 Hamlet – William Shakespeare   Unit 3 Rivals – R. B. Sheridan   Unit 4 Pygmalion – G. B. Shaw   Unit 5 One Act Plays The Boy Comes Home – A.A.Milne The Room – Herald Pinter

  Old English (450-1150) Anglo Saxon is the earliest recorded form of the English language spoken in England, Southern and eastern Scotland from 5 th Century to 10 th Century. Old English was developed from the Languages brought to Great Britain b Anglo Saxon migrants in the 5 th Century and the first Old English literary work dates from the 7 th century onwards. Old English was a set of Anglo – Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, As the Germanic settlers became dominant in England, their Language replaced the languages of Romano Britain, which was commonly known as Britionic or Celtic. During the Old English Period, There were four major Dialects associated with Anglo Saxon Kingdoms. They were Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon. It was West Saxon that formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English Period. As a matter of fact, Germanic languages were divided into...

  English Literature Semester – I Unit - I Origin and Descent of English Origin & Descent English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic Languages brought to Britain in the 5 th century AD by Anglo Saxon Migrants. The Anglo Saxons settled in the British Isles from the 5 th century and came to dominate the bulk of the southern Great Britain. Their language originated as a group of group of Ingvaenonic languages which was spoken by the settlers in England and Southerners and Eastern Scotland in the early middle ages by displacing the Celtic Languages (possibly British Latin) that had previously been dominant. As a matter of fact, Germanic languages are divided into three parts. They are North Germanic, West Germanic and East Germanic. North Germanic is the Sub family of the indo European Languages. People who lived in Danish, Faroesic, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish spoke Nordic Languages. West Germanic was further Sub divided into three p...

  English Literature Semester – I Syllabus Unit – I Introduction to English Language and Literature History of English language 1.origin & Descent of English language 2. Features of old English 3.Features of Middle English 4.Features of Modern English   Unit – II   Structure of English Language.   1.Word Formation 2.Change of Meaning 3.Sentence Structure - I (simple Sentence and its Constituents) 4.Sentence Structure - II (Compound Sentence and its constituents) 5.Sentence Structure – III (Complex Sentence and its Constituents) Unit – III   Figures of Speech   1.Simile 2.Metaphor 3.Oxymoron 4.Euphemism 5.metonymy 6.Hyperbole 7.Paradox 8.Synedoche 9.Irony 10. Personification Unit – IV   Literary Movement   1.Renaissance 2.Reformation 3.Neo-Classicism (Restoration, Augustan & Age of Johnson) 4.Romanticism 5.Pre-Raphaletism 6.Modernism Unit – V   Elemen...