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MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION
DENAU INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PEDAGOGY
COURSEWORK
Theme: Anglo-Saxon Literature.
(7th - 11th centuries)
Done by:_______________
Supervisor:_______________
Denov - 2022
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………….…………………3
CHAPTER I. ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE………………………………………………...…………………..6
Anglo Saxon Period in History of English Literature………………………8
Anglo-saxon literature poetry……………………………….…………….10
Conclusions on chapter I ……………………………...………………………….17
CHAPTER II. SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE………………………………………………………………....18 Specific features of Anglo-Saxon poetry…………………………………20
Anglo-saxon literature heroic poems………………………………….24
Conclusions on chapter II……………………………………………………….30
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………..…31
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………..…32
INTRODUCTION
English Literature is a crucial part of a child’s development, in analysing content, understanding different novels and breaking down complex themes in storytelling. It’s also a great place for children to learn about how to construct sentences, develop their grammar skills and more.There’s also a distinct difference between Literature and English Language that is taken into account in education. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the importance of English Literature in modern day education with the guidance of this private school in Dublin.
Both are incredibly important to a child’s education and are often split into separate subjects during GCSE or A Level studies. English Language focuses on the specifics of writing, speech and other forms of communication into finer detail. Literature on the other hand focuses more on reading material, encouraging children to pick up more books, understand themes within stories or poems and thematic analysis of works.
From continued reading of books, poems and other pieces of content your child is developing an advanced level of vocabulary that they can use in a multitude of situations. It gives children a lot more tools to understand different contexts and situations where they can use these new found words. A lot of speech and communication skills are taught through reading your favourite novels.
A lot of novels touch upon the world’s greatest struggles and put into a new perspective that can show the reader how much of a problem something can be. Race, gender, ethnicity and wealth are often visited subject matters where your child will begin to learn how to dissect these issues and how they reflect on society. Additionally, your child will be able to form their own opinions on these subjects while having the tools to be able to talk about difficult topics, debate and other
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ways to communicate.
What you pick up in studying English Literature can be used in a lot of other subjects that rely on opinion, essay writing and having a depth of vocabulary at your disposal. English Literature teaches students about culture, history and analysis of themes within texts, which can be used when studying History, Religious Studies, Business Studies and Geography, among other subjects at school. It’s a great tool to have in your child’s belt when it comes to exams as well, especially as a lot of exams are heavy on essay writing.
In general,english literature, the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New Zealand literature.
English literature has sometimes been stigmatized as insular. It can be argued that no single English novel attains the universality of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace or the French writer Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Yet in the Middle Ages the Old English literature of the subjugated Saxons was leavened by the Latin and Anglo-Norman writings, eminently foreign in origin, in which the churchmen and the Norman conquerors expressed themselves. From this combination emerged a flexible and subtle linguistic instrument exploited by Geoffrey Chaucer and brought to supreme application by William Shakespeare. During the Renaissance the renewed interest in Classical learning and values had an important effect on English literature, as on all the arts; and ideas of Augustan literary propriety in the 18th century and reverence in the 19th century for a less specific, though still selectively viewed, Classical antiquity continued to shape the
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literature. All three of these impulses derived from a foreign source, namely the Mediterranean basin. The Decadents of the late 19th century and the Modernists of the early 20th looked to continental European individuals and movements for inspiration. Nor was attraction toward European intellectualism dead in the late 20th century, for by the mid-1980s the approach known as structuralism, a phenomenon predominantly French and German in origin, infused the very study of English literature itself in a host of published critical studies and university departments. Additional influence was exercised by deconstructionist analysis, based largely on the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Further, Britain’s past imperial activities around the globe continued to inspire literature—in some cases wistful, in other cases hostile. Finally, English literature has enjoyed a certain diffusion abroad, not only in predominantly English-speaking countries but also in all those others where English is the first choice of study as a second language.
English literature is therefore not so much insular as detached from the continental European tradition across the Channel. It is strong in all the conventional categories of the bookseller’s list: in Shakespeare it has a dramatist of world renown; in poetry, a genre notoriously resistant to adequate translation and therefore difficult to compare with the poetry of other literatures, it is so peculiarly rich as to merit inclusion in the front rank; English literature’s humour has been found as hard to convey to foreigners as poetry, if not more so—a fact at any rate permitting bestowal of the label “idiosyncratic”; English literature’s remarkable body of travel writings constitutes another counterthrust to the charge of insularity; in autobiography, biography, and historical writing, English literature compares with the best of any culture; and children’s literature, fantasy, essays, and journals, which tend to be considered minor genres, are all fields of exceptional achievement as regards English literature.
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