a history of english literature by edward albert pdf

... that we can know about The first formal assertion of the classical potential of writing in a modern European vernacular was made about 1307 by the Italian poet Dante Such a claim was made for English ... first of Britain seen by early incomers, and have become a familiar symbol of England, and of the fact that England is on an island These cliffs are part of what the Romans, from as early as the 2nd ... historical and cultural rather than literary reasons - as is true of most of the writing of any period Christian literature The dedicated Christian literature of Anglo-Saxon England is of various

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... that we can know about The first formal assertion of the classical potential of writing in a modern European vernacular was made about 1307 by the Italian poet Dante Such a claim was made for English ... first of Britain seen by early incomers, and have become a familiar symbol of England, and of the fact that England is on an island These cliffs are part of what the Romans, from as early as the 2nd ... historical and cultural rather than literary reasons - as is true of most of the writing of any period Christian literature The dedicated Christian literature of Anglo-Saxon England is of various

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... Renaissance and Elizabethan Era brought about interest in Classics, Humanism and nationalist feeling  Translations of Italian and French as well as Latin and Greek  Travel Literature  Lyrical ... 5Medieval Romances Translated from French or Latin  Focuses on one Romantic “Hero”  Matters of Britain (King Arthur)  Matters of France (Charlemagne)  Matters of Rome (Alexander the Great) ... Trang 1Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and the Renaissance:An Overview Trang 2General Historical Timeline Britons  Roman Conquest (55 B.C – 410 A.D.)  Angles, Saxons and Jutes invade  Danish

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... English was the language chiefly of the lower classes and largely removed from the restraining influences of education and a literary standard, it was natural that many speakers should wrongly apply ... later was changed to a national Parliament. Trang 7The Position of English  In the period up to 1200 the attitude of the king and the upper classes toward the English language may be characterized ... besides French also in English  1362 – the English language became the language of Parliament, courts of law; later, at the end of the century – the language of teaching  The rule of King Henry

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... is English spelling really that chaotic? Many linguists suggest that it is not nearly as irregular as people think W.A Craigie suggests that English orthography’s chaotic appearance is a false ... gone and the West Saxon dialect was established as the standard (Essinger, 2006) Once a standard had been established, Old English spelling was fairly consistent The West Saxon dialect had a reasonably ... Normandy which led to a gradual cultural and linguistic separation from French (Baugh & Cable, 2002) English nationalism was growing The Bubonic Plague increased the importance of the laboring

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... articulation in the vocal tract relative to the standard [θ]. 3.6.3.2 Quantification and grading of manner of articulation Fricatives are produced by forcing air through narrow gaps, and assessing a ... manner of articulation, voicing, and air passage According to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), for instance, [p] is categorized as a bilabial, voiceless, oral stop, while [b] is a bilabial, ... illustrates the place of articulation, a crucial aspect of consonant pronunciation, through visual representations of articulator movements However, mastering the place of articulation alone is

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... cognates, linguists are able to make qualified guesses about what words may have looked like in a proto-language Cognates also reveal systematic sound changes that have occurred as new languages ... front mutation I-umlaut can be seen as a kind of assimilation, whereby a front vowel towards the end of a word affects a the vowel of a preceding syllable, raising it In many cases, the final front ... grammar and phonetics of Modern English and explain the strange makeup of its vocabulary In addition, a study of how historical events have affected the English language will highlight many of the

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... covered with a kind of gray dry scale that made a noise like paper as the fiend moved this way and that The body of the beast was shaped like that of a man, but such a man as no mortal eyes had ever ... geography of England that is perpetually reflected in its literature, far more than the pattern of events which we call the history of a nation England is an island and the sea washes its literature ... Danes, that country not far from Geatsiand, across the water He told a sad story of desolation and despair in Hrothgar’s land, because of a beast which had struck mortal fear into the hearts of

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... covered with a kind of gray dry scale that made a noise like paper as the fiend moved this way and that The body of the beast was shaped like that of a man, but such a man as no mortal eyes had ever ... dialect East Midland dialect was accepted as the standard language because: the East midlands was the largest and most populous of the language area; the East midlands dialect was spoken by Londoners; ... underwent a change as dramatic as that of England’s language As a result of the contact with Continental writing, new forms of writing appeared in England: The Romance, the Religious Drama and the Ballad

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... 1 Africa was also home to an array of societies but had maintained contact with Europe and Asia a) Trade between the Mediterranean area and sub-Saharan Africa can be traced back to ancient Egypt ... Songhai Empire of sub-Saharan Africa B The Continued Quest for Asian Trade 1 Portuguese contact with Africa gradually reached around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to Asia 2 Spain, ... b) Amerigo Vespucci c) Giovanni de Verrazano C A New Transatlantic World 1 European monarchs gradually learned that the new land had attractions of its own 2 Warfare increased among the Northeastern

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... pregnant women with a history of RPL by 12 weeks" was conducted with two objectives: (1) To analyse of obstetric history and characteristics of anticardiolipin antibody and lupus anticoagulant ... miscarriages disease based primarily on tests APL 4.3 Features of the aCL and LA in RPL patients 4.3.1 Ratio aCL and LA in RPL patients In 301 RPL patients, the number of 2 times positive aCL accounted ... dose of 20 mg/day should be rare complications can appear later and affordable Nine patients had platelet counts decreased and other disorders of medical tests may be temporarily interrupted treatment

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... million years ago to settle on Java? A) By sailing woven grass boats B) By walking over land C) By floating on planks D) By paddling canoes 9 Where did Homo sapiens first evolve? A) The Black Sea region ... dominated the diet of Paleolithic foragers? A) Trapped animals B) Fish C) Hunted animals D) Plants 19 Paleolithic humans may have encouraged the growth of new plants by doing what? A) Planting ... North America B) South America C) Europe D) Northern Asia 51 What evidence and characteristics do scientists use to place animals, such as humans, in a particular classification, such as a kingdom,

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... caused by warfare between Native Americans and Europeans d a death rate high only where Native Americans lived in low concentrations e no significant deaths, since Native Americans were already ... Native Americans were united and spoke a common language b Eastern Native American tribes were ruled by a central leader from the most powerful tribe c Eastern Native Americans waged wars with large ... tribes in Canada c discovery of huge amounts of gold d conversion of the Indians to Catholicism e withdrawal of the Spanish Answer: A Trang 7Difficulty: 1 – Easy Topic: The French Claim Canada Skill:

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... the standard of living of the peasant masses b Rapid inflation led to an unfavorable balance of trade and the collapse of many businesses c The ready availability of investment capital at low ... the area of the GreatBasin (present-day Nevada and Utah)?a The disease environment dramatically lowered the life expectancy of the inhabitants of the Great Basin b The tribes of the Great Basin ... c the Angle and Saxon tribes of England were so weakened that they were easily defeated by William of a their acceptance of the concept of constitutional monarchy b a new sense of national identity

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... noble architecture in cathedrals and palaces, of formal religious ritual, and of the pomp and display of all elaborate pageantry. In the outcome they largely reshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon ... ones as Burns' 'Cotter's Saturday Night,' Byron's 'Childe Harold,' Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes,' and Shelley's 'Adonais.' In general ... years beginning in 1660. Pepys, who ultimately became Secretary to the Admiralty, and was a hard-working and very able naval official, was also astonishingly naïf and vain. In his 'Diary'...

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... had followed Fabyan as an English historian, and, above all, Latimer's Sermons had shown how to transform spoken English of the raciest kind into literature. Lord Berners's translations ... was written to another father of English prose, Sir Thomas Hoby, the translator of Castiglione's Courtier. But Ascham had already and some years earlier published his Toxophilus, and various ... translations of Froissart and of divers examples of late Continental romance had provided much prose of no mean quality for light reading, and also by their imitation of the florid and fanciful style of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and sublime ... Chrestien's 'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in many ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' ... Rossettis in England and of Longfellow and Dr. Parsons in America that any poetry of a really Dantesque inspiration and, at the same time, of high original value was added to our literature. [18] The...

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... Beelzebub, and a crowd of allegorical personages. But the battles and debats of a chivalric age were not only religious; there are battles of wine and water, battles of fast and feasting, battles of ... his character as a man, he belonged to an age of philosophers and sentimentalists, an age of "virtue" and "nature." Shakespeare's translation is as strange as that of his ... Statira, daughter of Darius; the Prince de Conde masks in Cleopatre as Coriolan; Pharamond is the Grand Monarch in disguise. Notwithstanding the faded gallantries and amorous casuistry of La Calprenede's...

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