English Literature: An Introduction - Video

An introduction to English Literature, for secondary school students studying English Literature or for undergraduate university students taking English Literature for the first time. The lecture focuses on defining the discipline of English Literature, as a Humanities discipline distinct from the Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. Questions students should keep in mind as they study literature or philosophy books. The lecture also discusses at a high level the major literary periods in English Literature, the major literary genres and the types of Literary Theory approaches to interpreting texts that the student should keep in mind.

Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FF7eEqsSjRthh5a-rJGE3tZjXDyg3lX0/view?usp=drive_link

My Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/

0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - What is Literature: Humanities vs Natural Sciences and Social Sciences; Reference to Viktor Shklovsky and "defamiliarization",
12:50 - Metaphor
14:20 - Epic Simile (Homer's Odyssey)
19:40 - Defining "English" Literature and "British" Literature
21:50 - English Studies Today, and the Problem of Specialization
23:47 - The Future of Literary Study: Interdisciplinarity; Digital / Quantitiative Approaches
26:19 - English Literary Periods
33:15 - The Beginnings of English Literature: Anglo-Saxon Literature (450-1066)
35:37 - Anglo-Norman Literature (1066-1200)
36:13 - Middle English (1200-1485)
36:58 - Renaissance Literature (1485-1660)
38:31 - Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1798)
40:25 - Romanticism (1798-1850)
41:35 - Victorian Literature (1837-1900)
42:20 - Modernism (1900-1950)
43:45 - Postmodernism (1950-2000)
44:57 - Post-postmodernism (2000 - Present); the problem of canonization
47:50 - Recency Bias in Current Study of Literature and History
51:20 - Literary Genres
55:25 - Literary Interpretation and Literary Theory

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