World Literature PDF

WORLD LITERATURE - According to David Damrosch, World Literature are ***"literary works that circulate beyond their culture of origin in its most expensive sense, world literature could include any world that has reached beyond its home base".*** - World literature is not a TRAVELO...

WORLD LITERATURE - According to David Damrosch, World Literature are ***"literary works that circulate beyond their culture of origin in its most expensive sense, world literature could include any world that has reached beyond its home base".*** - World literature is not a TRAVELOGUE. - World literature is about stepping out of our neighborhoods, regions, cultures, and ethnicities and placing ourselves in the larger context of humanity. - World literature is learning about **values**, **cultures**, **nationalism**, **attitudes**, **thoughts**, **beliefs**, **feelings**, and **experiences** (human conditions) of the continents of the world through their ***writings*** in different ***literary*** forms like ***poetry*** ***and prose.*** - It refers to any collection of ***written*** or ***oral work***. Still, it more commonly and narrowly refers to writings specifically considered to be an ***art form*** especially ***prose fiction***, ***drama***, and ***poetry***. - Literature, as an art form can also include works in various **non-fiction genres,** such as ***autobiography,*** ***diaries,*** ***memoir***, ***letters***, and ***essay***. - Latin: ***litera/littera/litteratura/literatura*** means an acquaintance with letters, the root definition of literature. - It is the ***body of literary productions***, either *oral* or ***written***, or ***visual***, containing *imaginative language* that realistically portrays ***thoughts***, ***emotions***, and ***experiences of human condition.*** II. QUALIFICATION OF LITERATURE A. POETRY - It refers to those expression in verse, with measures, rhymes, lines, stanzas and melodious tone. - TYPES: - **Lyric Poetry** - meant to be sung to the accompaniment of musical instrument known as the ***harp lyre***. **Ex**: Orpheus and Eurydice - TYPES: - **Song** - has a specific melodious quality and is intended to be sung and can be set easily to music. - **Sonnet** - has 14 lines with a formal rhyme. - **Elegy** - expresses lament or grief for the dead. - **Ode**- express high praise for some persons, objects, events or ideas. - **Narrative Poetry** - it tells a story that follows an order of events. - long descriptive poem about life and events that may be real or imaginary. - TYPES: - **Ballad** - a short narrative poem to be sung and is orally told from one generation to another. - **Metrical Romance---**written in verse; a long, rambling love story that centers the adventures of knights and lords and their royal ladies. - **Epic** - a long, majestic poem that tells the adventures of a traditional hero and the development of a nation. - **Dramatic Poetry** - it has elements that are closely related to drama as it written in **dramatic form** or makes use of **dramatic technique**. B. PROSE III. FAMOUS LITERARY PIECES A. JAPAN i. Snow Country 1. Yasunari Kawabata. 2. Published between 1935 and 1937. 3. **Komako** - geisha 4. **Shimamura** - wealthy client 5. **Onsen** - hot spring resort 6. The themes of **loneliness,** **the poignancy of impossible love**, and the **tragic waste of beauty and love**; the traditional theme of **\"mono no aware,\"** the awareness of beauty and sadness in the transience of **nature**, **life**, and **human relationships**. B. CHINA ii. Romance of the 3 Kingdoms 7. Luo Guanzhong 8. Epic retelling of historical events in China from 184 to 280 CE. C. KOREA iii. Pachinko 9. Min Jin Lee 10. Written about the life of Korean immigrants living in Japan post WWII. D. AMERICA iv. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 11. Mark Twain 12. About what boyhood looks like in a small town in the American Midwest. E. ENGLAND v. Frankenstein 13. Or The Modern Prometheus 14. An epistolary about tells the story of a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. 15. Written by Mary Shelley F. RUSSIA vi. Anna Karenina 16. Leo Tolstoy 17. Provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. G. GREECE vii. Pandora 18. Hesiod 19. The first woman 20. Prometheus and Epimetheus H. INDIA viii. Brahma 21. Creator god from Hindu 22. Emerged from the cosmic egg as a golden lotus flower. 23. Has four faces. I. EGYPT ix. Isis and Osiris 24. Osiris was the god the dead. 25. Isis was the mother goddess 26. Seth was the god of violence and disorder. J. FRANCE x. Les Misérables 27. Victor Hugo 28. French Revolution