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Actividades Técnicas de Estudio de la Literatura de la Lengua Inglesa
Actividad 00 “Red Whitla”
1. “English (Adj.) is usually elevated into the status of a noun”. (p.5). How does it affect to its meaning?
2. What is SWE?
3. What did ‘litteratura ‘ originally mean?
4. What is a “classic” of a culture?
5. What was Arnold and T.S. Eliot’s view of literature? Who was TS Eliot? (not in the book).
6. Why has been this (Arnold’s) view of literature been attacked? What definition of literature is then proposed?
7. What did “teaching literature” mean over the 19th C.? Have you experienced any/all/none of these procedures as a student of literature (English/Spanish..)?
8. What is the difference between ‘English literature’ and ‘Literature in English’?
9. What is philology and how was it originally related to the study literature at Universities?
10. Why study literature?
1. It becomes confusing because you don't know if the noun "the English" refers to only the people in England or if it includes Ireland or not. 2. SWE stands for "Standard" written English, which is the right form of writing that English speakers all over the world agree about. 3. Litteratura originally meant grammar, translated from Greek. 4. A "classic" of a culture is what it called a work which passes on a nation's cultural heritage by writting them and that are more precious than those their rivals. 5. Arnold and T.S. Eliot's view of literature was that the classics of a culture were the best of its literary art, meaning this that literature becomes the culture's highest expression, above all the other forms of writing. Their views were later called as Modernism.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was among the most respected and influential literary figures of his era as a poet, playwright, and critic.
6. This view has been atacked because it was thought that it was associating the "best of literature" with a high class of people, despising others.
