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    The document provides an overview of an English literature course. It discusses what literature is, how it can be pleasurable, and why it is important. It outlines the objectives of increasing knowledge of English texts, learning to analyze literature from different perspectives, and gaining an historical view of Anglo culture. The document also presents frameworks for analyzing literary elements like poetry, alliteration, and kennings and poses questions for analyzing works from any time period.

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    WHAT IS LITERATURE?

    WHY IS IT PLEASURABLE?

    Why is it
    important?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCFLobfqcw&list=WL&index=37
    LITERATURE AS A PROCESS

    the the The


    writer text reader
    The Writer’s Universe
    The supernatural
    world

    society

    The natural world


    COURSE OBJECTIVES

     Increase your knowledge of English by exposure


    to some great texts with the difficult vocabulary
    explained in footnotes.
     Learn the nomenclature for analysing literature.
     Learn how to analyse literature from different
    perspectives.
     Learn the basics of formal analysis.
     Gain a historical perspective to Anglo culture.
     Hopefully, learn to love literature and the
    analysis of texts.
    HOW THIS WORKS

    Essential

    Supplementary
    QUESTIONS FOR EVERY WORK FROM ANY PERIOD

     How are these people similar to or different from us?


     What makes for a good leader?
     What is the community’s relationship with nature?
     What is civilization?
     Who belongs to the community/in-group?
     What is women’s role in society?
     Who are the Others and how are they a threat?
     How are classes portrayed?
     Are there any boundary-blurrers?
     Who is invisible?
     What is the point of life?
     What are the community’s fundamental values?
     What is the role of the poet?
     What does it mean to be human?
    IS THIS POETRY?

    The crash in the banqueting-hall came to the Danes,


    the men of the guard that remained in the buildings,
    with the taste of death. The deepening rage
    of the claimants to Heorot caused it to resound.
    [767-770]
    THE A-S ALLITERATIVE LINE

     Each line is divided in two, with a pause


    (caesura) in the middle.
     The first half-line (hemistich /’hemistik/) is
    called the on-verse.
     The second half-line is called the off-verse.

     There are two stressed syllables in each


    hemistich.
    THE RULES OF A-S ALLITERATION
    The A-S alliterative pattern can be:
    a x // a x
    x a // a x
    a a // a x

     but not: a a // a a

    = where: a = alliterates; x = does not alliterate


    KENNINGAR

    a. battle-adders f. battle-sweat
    b. sky-candle g. the branch’s foe
    c. whale-road h. head-jewels
    d. shield-play or metal-storm
    e. war-onion or battle-light

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