+- MEBingilizce FORUM (http://www.mebingilizce.net/forum)
+-- Forum: SINAVLAR (http://www.mebingilizce.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=89)
+--- Forum: ÖABT (http://www.mebingilizce.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=92)
+--- Konu Başlığı: ÖABT British Literary Timeline - İngiliz Edebiyatı Kronolojisi (/showthread.php?tid=33)
ÖABT British Literary Timeline - İngiliz Edebiyatı Kronolojisi - mebingilizce - 14-06-2016
British Literary Timeline - İngiliz Edebiyatı Kronolojisi
I. The Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period (Years: 449-1066)
A. Themes/Influences:
1. strong belief in fate
2. juxtaposition of church and pagan worlds
3. admiration of heroic warriors who prevail in battle
4. express religious faith and give moral instruction through literature
B. Style/Genre/Literary Elements:
1. oral tradition of literature
2. poetry dominant genre
3. unique verse form
4. caesura
5. alliteration
6. repetition
7. four-beat rhythm
C. Effect Literature Had on Culture:
1. Christianity helps literacy to spread
2. introduces Roman alphabet to Britain
3. oral tradition helps unite diverse peoples and their myths
D. Historical Context:
1. life centered around ancestral tribes or clans that ruled themselves
2. at first the people were warriors from invading outlying areas: Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Danes
3. later they were agricultural
E. A Sampling of Key Literature & Authors:
Beowulf The Venerable Bede Exeter Book