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