Ukraine 10 клас World Literature (profile level)

1. Original and translated literature

Literature and translation

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2. Golden pages of distant epochs

Classics of world literature

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3. Late Romanticism and transition to Realism

Romanticism in Germany and the USA

• Romanticism – Romanticism was a movement in literature, art and music from about 1780 to 1850. It reacted against the Age of Reason's strict rules and against ugly, crowded factory towns. Romantics valued nature, especially wild and 'sublime' nature, strong personal feeling, the free individual, imagination and dreams, the past and folk culture. Key figures include Wordsworth, Keats, Goethe, Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, the painters Turner and Friedrich, and composers such as Chopin and Schubert.

4. The 19th-century novel

Realist novel

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5. Transition to modernism in poetry

French symbolist poets

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6. Drama c. 1900

New drama

• Modern Drama: From Realism to Today's Stage – Modern drama begins around 1880 with the 'new drama' of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shaw, who replaced melodrama with realism: ordinary people, social problems and natural speech behind a fourth wall. In the 20th century, writers broke that wall (Brecht's epic theatre), showed inner feelings (expressionism), and questioned meaning itself (the Absurd). Later plays brought working-class, women's and migrant voices, and today's theatre mixes forms: in-the-round staging, physical and verbatim theatre and media. To study a modern play, look at structure, character, stage directions, language, themes and context.

7. Contemporary literature for young readers

Modern authors (choice)

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