Ukraine 8 клас World Literature

1. Introduction

Literature as art

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2. In search of a hero: heroic epics

Ancient epics · Medieval epics

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3. Light from the East

Classical Chinese poetry · Persian and Georgian classics

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4. Ideal of woman in the Renaissance

Renaissance sonnet · Shakespeare’s tragedy

• Drama: Elements, Stagecraft and Performance – Drama is a story told by actors who become characters and act it out in front of an audience. Every drama has characters who want something, a conflict when those wants clash, a plot that builds tension to a climax and then resolves, dialogue, a setting and a theme. On stage, actors use voice and body, and the production adds lighting, set, costume and sound.

5. Conflict of dream and reality

Cervantes · Baroque and classicism

• The Baroque: Art in Motion (c. 1600–1750) – Baroque is the European style of about 1600 to 1750 in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature. It grew in Rome after the Reformation, when the Catholic Church and kings used art to move and impress people. Its marks are motion, contrast and emotion: diagonals, dramatic light (chiaroscuro and tenebrism), curving walls and domes, gold and illusion ceilings, music with a basso continuo and many weaving voices, and writing full of contrasts, surprising metaphors and the theme of passing time. Key names: Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Borromini, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Góngora, Donne. Classicism answered it with order, reason and calm.

6. Rising above the everyday: modern literature

Modern authors (choice of 3)

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