Appunti brevi e completi, Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica Appunti brevi e completi e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! DEFOE: 1660 Daniel Defoe was born in London. 1683 Defoe starts working as a merchant and travels to Europe he was also interested in politics. 1702 Writes his famous pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Class Dissidents. 1703 Defoe was arrested because of the irony towards the contained religion in his pamphlet about him, but was soon released in exchange for services such as pamphlet writer (political propaganda writer) and spy for the leader by Tory Robert Harley.1704-1713 he writes and produces the periodical The Review. 1719 he Begins writing in prose at the age of fifty- nine. 1731 Daniel Defoe dies in London. Literary production: Defoe published his first novel, Robinson Crusoe in 1719, later having written journalism and pamphlets for many years. The story was based in part on the memories of travelers and shipwrecked people. In his later years, Defoe concentrated on autobiographical novels of fantasy rather than journalism, Defoe is considered the founder of the English novel. The Robinson Crusoe story is the most famous adventure story of the English literature tells the story of a man who is shipwrecked on a desert island where he spends the next 28 years before he is saved, the story is divided into three parts: 1) tells us briefly about Crusoe's early life and rather that accepting the life his father promises him runs away from home, after a series of adventures he finds himself in Brazil where he becomes owner of a plantation, from there he left for Africa with others plantation owners to get slaves to work for him, on this journey he is shipwrecked and he is the only one to survive. 2) in the form of a diary in which Crusoe writes of life on the island and of like him he uses his intelligence and strength to overcome difficulties. He meets a man he calls Friday and converts him to Christianity, he teaches him the language, culture, hunting and a defend against attacks. 3) tells of their rescue and both of them returning to England together and then about their trip to Brazil. Robinson Crusoe is written in the first person in the form of an autobiography, in this book you occasionally reflect on religious matters. Robinson Crusoe is open to several interpretations: 1) religious allegory, a Puritan trait on the redemption of man from sin, their view was that man must save himself from original sin on earth, he does not believe in God for salvation but it is based only on their workings. 2) economic allegory, after arriving on the island he begins considering it as his property, he builds a house makeshift with a fence around it, and gathers wealth in the form of food supplies and supplies. 3) Imperialist allegory. SWIFT:1667 Jonathan Swift was born in Ireland and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. 1689 he Left Ireland to go to England and for the next ten years he served as secretary of Sir William Temple. 1694 Swift became an Anglican priest. After William Temple died in 1699, he returned to Ireland. 1713, Swift, along with Alexander Pope, William Congreve and John Gay, formed a group of satirists known as the 'Scriblerus Club'. 1742 Declared insane after a period of ill health. 1745 Jonathan Swift dies.He is buried in Dublin. Literary production: In 1704 Swift published (anonymously) his first major work satirical, A Tale of a Tub, followed by many other pamphlets. It was only in 1726 that he published his masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels. Three years later, in 1729, Swift published a grotesque satire on problems Irish overpopulation and food shortages e on the indifference of the British towards them. In this text, Swift suggests that the children prepare a succulent dish, and so he finds a solution to both overpopulation and hunger. Gulliver's Travels (1726): The story of Gulliver's Travels is divided into four parts: 1) The hero, ship surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, describes his shipwreck off the island of Lilliput The Lilliputians, he finds out, are tiny people, only six inches tall. During his time on Lilliput, he learns i local customs and culture and the country's political system help people in their war against another island, Blefuscu, later of which he returns to England. 2) Gulliver leaves for India, but after a series of misadventures, he finds himself abandoned on the island of Brobdingnag, whose inhabitants are all giants. The situation of Part 1 is reversed, as Gulliver is now considered like a living doll that children can play with. he Comes sold to the queen and discusses the political situation in Europe with the king, before returning to England. 3) Gulliver arrives on the island of Laputa populated by philosophers and scientists, all of them involved in bizarre and futile scientific research and speculation. 4) Gulliver arrives in a land ruled by intelligent horses who do they call Houyhnhnms, which is also the name of the island. Again, Gulliver spends his time trying to learn the language and ways of the Houyhnhnm. He assimilates them so well that when he comes back at home with his wife and children he finds himself disgusted by their "humanity". Stylistic features Gulliver's Travels have been considered a children's classic for fantasy of his images and the simplicity of his prose. Swift declares at the beginning of the novel that 'the style is very simple and linear. Gulliver, like Crusoe, he is a concrete man who records the wonders he sees with accurate details, in the language of the traveler who speaks with greatness seriousness of what he has seen and wants to be believed. When Gulliver's Travels was published anonymously in 1726, it was immediately successful. One report said that ten thousand copies they were sold out in three weeks, which was remarkable for the time. Although The Gulliver Journey is a book that works on multiple levels, the critics have suggested that it has an allegorical political dimension. The four trips can be interpreted as follows: 1) Tiny Lilliputians, although a well- organized society, can represent cruelty, meanness and provincialism initially be kind to him, Lilliputians see Gulliver as a giant child, a huge body controlled by his physical needs their only use for him is as a weapon to destroy their enemies. 2) The giants of Brobdingnag represent human