(Some) Literary History
-
Upload
kieran-ryan -
Category
Education
-
view
490 -
download
4
Transcript of (Some) Literary History
![Page 1: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Literature TimelineIB EnglishSouth Island School
![Page 2: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
What do you know?
![Page 3: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
What do you know?HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
![Page 4: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
What do you know?HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
![Page 5: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
What do you know?
HOW LONG HAS HUMANKIND BEEN AROUND FOR?
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
![Page 6: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
What do you know?
HOW LONG HAS HUMANKIND BEEN AROUND FOR?
POSSIBLY 7 MILLION YEARS, AT LEAST 2.7 MILLION YEARS. DEPENDS WHAT COUNTS AS A ‘HUMAN’.
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
![Page 7: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
What do you know?
HOW LONG HAS HUMANKIND BEEN AROUND FOR?
POSSIBLY 7 MILLION YEARS, AT LEAST 2.7 MILLION YEARS. DEPENDS WHAT COUNTS AS A ‘HUMAN’.
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
![Page 8: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
What do you know?
![Page 9: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
What do you know?WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
![Page 10: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
What do you know?WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
PEOPLE WERE MAKING PRIMITIVE MARKS 50,000 YEARS AGO. MESOPOTAMIA (IRAN) USUALLY GETS CREDITED WITH ‘INVENTING’WRITING ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.
![Page 11: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
What do you know?WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
PEOPLE WERE MAKING PRIMITIVE MARKS 50,000 YEARS AGO. MESOPOTAMIA (IRAN) USUALLY GETS CREDITED WITH ‘INVENTING’WRITING ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.
![Page 12: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
What do you know?WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
PEOPLE WERE MAKING PRIMITIVE MARKS 50,000 YEARS AGO. MESOPOTAMIA (IRAN) USUALLY GETS CREDITED WITH ‘INVENTING’WRITING ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.
EARLY WRITINGMESOPOTAMIA
C. 3000 BCE
![Page 13: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
What do you know?
![Page 14: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
What do you know?WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
![Page 15: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
What do you know?WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
POSSIBLY THE EPIC POEM GILGAMESH; OLDEST WRITTEN VERSION MIGHT DATE FROM ABOUT 2200 BCE. IT ORIGINATES IN SUMERIA (SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA)
![Page 16: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
What do you know?WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
POSSIBLY THE EPIC POEM GILGAMESH; OLDEST WRITTEN VERSION MIGHT DATE FROM ABOUT 2200 BCE. IT ORIGINATES IN SUMERIA (SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA)
![Page 17: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
What do you know?WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
POSSIBLY THE EPIC POEM GILGAMESH; OLDEST WRITTEN VERSION MIGHT DATE FROM ABOUT 2200 BCE. IT ORIGINATES IN SUMERIA (SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA)
THE ‘DELUGE’ TABLET
![Page 18: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
How old is the Bible?
![Page 19: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
How old is the Bible?PROBABLY LARGELY WRITTEN IN MESOPOTAMIA, SOME SCHOLARS ESTIMATE THE OLD TESTAMENT OR THE TORAHWAS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1200 AND 200 BCE
![Page 20: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
How old is the Bible?PROBABLY LARGELY WRITTEN IN MESOPOTAMIA, SOME SCHOLARS ESTIMATE THE OLD TESTAMENT OR THE TORAHWAS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1200 AND 200 BCE
![Page 21: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Who else was writing?
![Page 22: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Who else was writing?THE GREEKS!
HOMER - ILIAD AND ODYSSEY - C. 1000 BCE (IF HE EXISTED)
SOPHOCLES -496 BCE-406 BCE
OEDIPUS REX - 429 BCE
![Page 23: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Who else was writing?THE GREEKS!
HOMER - ILIAD AND ODYSSEY - C. 1000 BCE (IF HE EXISTED)
SOPHOCLES -496 BCE-406 BCE
OEDIPUS REX - 429 BCE
![Page 24: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Who else was writing?THE GREEKS!
HOMER - ILIAD AND ODYSSEY - C. 1000 BCE (IF HE EXISTED)
SOPHOCLES -496 BCE-406 BCE
OEDIPUS REX - 429 BCE
SOPHOCLES
![Page 25: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Who else was writing?
![Page 26: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Who else was writing?THE CHINESE!
CONFUCIUS - 551 - 479 BC
![Page 27: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Who else was writing?THE CHINESE!
CONFUCIUS - 551 - 479 BC
![Page 28: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Who else was writing?THE CHINESE!
CONFUCIUS - 551 - 479 BC
CONFUCIUS
![Page 29: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
When did English arrive?
![Page 30: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
When did English arrive?OLD (ANGLO-SAXON)
ENGLISH - 500 AD - 1200 AD
![Page 31: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
When did English arrive?OLD (ANGLO-SAXON)
ENGLISH - 500 AD - 1200 AD
![Page 32: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
When did English arrive?OLD (ANGLO-SAXON)
ENGLISH - 500 AD - 1200 AD
BEOWULF (1100 AD)
![Page 33: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
OLD ENGLISH: A poem
![Page 34: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
OLD ENGLISH: A poemIC EOM WUNDERLICU WIHT WIFUM ON HYHTENEAHBUENDUM NYT; NÆGUM SCEÞÞEBURGSITTENDRA NYMTHE BONAN ANUM.STAÞOL MIN IS STEAPHEAH STONDE IC ON BEDDENEOÐAN RUH NATHWÆR. NEÞEÐ HWILUMFUL CYRTENU CEORLES DOHTORMODWLONC MEOWLE ÞÆT HEO ON MEC GRIPERÆSEÐ MEC ON REODNE REAFATH MIN HEAFODFEGEÐ MEC ON FÆSTEN. FELEÞ SONAMINES GEMOTES SEO ÞE MEC NEARWAÐWIF WUNDENLOCC. WÆT BIÐ ÞÆT EAGE.
![Page 35: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
And a translationI AM A WONDERFUL HELP TO WOMENTHE HOPE OF SOMETHING GOOD TO COMEI HARM ONLY MY SLAYERI GROW VERY TALL, ERECT IN A BEDI AM SHAGGY DOWN BELOWTHE LOVELY GIRL GRABS MY BODY, RUBS MY RED SKINHOLDS ME HARD, CLAIMS MY HEAD.THAT GIRL WILL FEEL OUR MEETING!I BRING TEARS TO HER EYES!WHAT AM I?
![Page 36: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
And the answer...
![Page 37: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
And the answer...
![Page 38: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
MIDDLE ENGLISHGEOFFREY CHAUCER - CANTERBURY TALES
CHAUCER - C. 1343 - 1400
![Page 39: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Middle English
![Page 40: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Middle EnglishA POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF,FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE.
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
![Page 41: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Middle EnglishA POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF,FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE.
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
A WIDOW POOR, SOMEWHAT ADVANCED IN AGE,LIVED, ON A TIME, WITHIN A SMALL COTTAGE
BESIDE A GROVE AND STANDING DOWN A DALE.THIS WIDOW, NOW, OF WHOM I TELL MY TALE,
SINCE THAT SAME DAY WHEN SHE'D BEEN LAST A WIFEHAD LED, WITH PATIENCE, HER STRAIT SIMPLE LIFE,
FOR SHE'D SMALL GOODS AND LITTLE INCOME-RENT;
![Page 42: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Middle EnglishA POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF,FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE.
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
A WIDOW POOR, SOMEWHAT ADVANCED IN AGE,LIVED, ON A TIME, WITHIN A SMALL COTTAGE
BESIDE A GROVE AND STANDING DOWN A DALE.THIS WIDOW, NOW, OF WHOM I TELL MY TALE,
SINCE THAT SAME DAY WHEN SHE'D BEEN LAST A WIFEHAD LED, WITH PATIENCE, HER STRAIT SIMPLE LIFE,
FOR SHE'D SMALL GOODS AND LITTLE INCOME-RENT;
![Page 43: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Middle EnglishA POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF,FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE.
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
A WIDOW POOR, SOMEWHAT ADVANCED IN AGE,LIVED, ON A TIME, WITHIN A SMALL COTTAGE
BESIDE A GROVE AND STANDING DOWN A DALE.THIS WIDOW, NOW, OF WHOM I TELL MY TALE,
SINCE THAT SAME DAY WHEN SHE'D BEEN LAST A WIFEHAD LED, WITH PATIENCE, HER STRAIT SIMPLE LIFE,
FOR SHE'D SMALL GOODS AND LITTLE INCOME-RENT;
C. 1380 - 1400
![Page 44: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Modern English
![Page 45: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Modern EnglishEVERYTHING FROM 1500 ONWARDS...
![Page 46: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Modern EnglishEVERYTHING FROM 1500 ONWARDS...
...INCLUDING SHAKESPEARE, SO STOP COMPLAINING!
![Page 47: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Modern EnglishEVERYTHING FROM 1500 ONWARDS...
...INCLUDING SHAKESPEARE, SO STOP COMPLAINING!
OTHELLO - C. 1603
![Page 48: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Modern EnglishEVERYTHING FROM 1500 ONWARDS...
...INCLUDING SHAKESPEARE, SO STOP COMPLAINING!
OTHELLO - C. 1603
![Page 49: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Modern EnglishEVERYTHING FROM 1500 ONWARDS...
...INCLUDING SHAKESPEARE, SO STOP COMPLAINING!
OTHELLO - C. 1603
SHAKESPEARE - 1564 - 1616
![Page 50: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
![Page 51: (Some) Literary History](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052619/55665f59d8b42aa21e8b4a96/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
TO BE CONTINUED...