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American and British Literature

Examples

Periods of literature

UK & USA vs Poland

Ernest Hemingway - "The Old Man and the Sea"

Mark Twain - "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

Stephen E. King - "The Green Mile"

Washington Irving - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

COMPARISON

Great Britain

SIMILARITIES

  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Medieval
  • Tudor
  • Restoration
  • Enlightenment
  • Romanticism
  • Victorian
  • Edwardian
  • 20th Century
  • Contemporary
  • Great Britain and British colonies
  • British literature describes own culture
  • Native American Period
  • Colonial Period
  • Revolutionary Period and Nationalism
  • Romanticism and Transcendentalism
  • Contemporary
  • Polish literature wasn't only written in Polish language (difference)
  • not only written on Polish territory (difference)
  • describes own culture (similarity)
  • from Middle Ages (not as old as British literature and older than American)
  • Poland shares many of the literary periods with Britain

(very similar periods)

  • America and colonies
  • American literature mirrors

own culture

Charles Dickens - "A Christmas Carol"

William Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet"

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - "The Lord of the Rings"

Clive Staples Lewis - "The Chronicles of Narnia"

Joanne K. Rowling - "Harry Potter"

USA

DIFFERENCES

  • British English
  • older than American
  • transforms reality in

portraying characters

  • American English
  • relatively young
  • often known as a much more

realistic in portraying characters

Ernest Hemingway

(1899 - 1961)

"The Old Man and the Sea"

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

(1892 - 1973)

"The Lord of the Rings"

SUMMARY

Other publications:

  • "Indian Camp"
  • "Fifty Grand"
  • "Death in the Afternoon"

Thank you for your attention

Other literary works:

  • "The Hobbit"
  • "The Fall of Arthur"
  • "Mr. Bliss"

Bibliography

  • http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-english-literature-and-vs-american-liter/
  • Teresa Michałowska: Średniowiecze. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1995
  • P. Gulisano, C. S. Lewis: od Narnii do Ewangelii, tł. Joanna Skoczylas, Poznań 2006
  • M. White, C. S. Lewis: chłopiec, który spisał dzieje Narnii, tł. Irena Scharoch, Warszawa 2007
  • https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_ameryka%C5%84ska
  • https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_polska
  • http://images.slideplayer.com/14/4450015/slides/slide_5.jpg
  • http://www.tolkien.cyberdusk.pl/index.php?inspiracje7
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