1. THE STUDY OF LITERATURE DR. HUSNIAH SAHAMID FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA

2. Why Study iterature "You look for your own story in literature; it's one of the best mechanisms you have to convince yourself you're not alone." [Glenn Schaeffer, founder of the International Institute of Modern Letters, UNLV Magazine]UNLV Magazine

3. "[L]iterature is an art, and... as an art it is able to enlarge and refine our understanding of life." [Robertson Davies, Reading and Writing 2-3 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, special ed., 1993) (1992)]

4. "Students are formed by the reading they do, by the views of self and world such reading presents." [Parker J. Palmer, To Know as We Are Known 19 (New York: Harper & Row, 1983)]

5. Learn language aspects: vocabulary items, grammatical structures aesthetic purposes take us beyond our limited experience of life show us lives of other people/culture at other times.

6. stir us intellectually and emotionally, deepen understanding of our history, our society, our own individual lives learn truths about human life Insight into characters

7. Classification: Literary Genres Works classified according to what they have in common, either in formal structures, treatment of subject matter A literary genre is a category of literary composition.

8. GENRES Genre - French term derived from Latin genus, generis meaning "type," "sort," or "kind."

9. Literary Genre - can be determined by literary technique, literary technique tone, tone content, content or even (as in the case of fiction) length

10. Genre vs category should not be confused with age category, adult, young adult, children General genres in literature: epic, epic tragedy, tragedy comedy, comedy novel, novel short story, short story creative nonfiction

11. Grouping works orderly way to talk about a LARGE number of literary texts: have a better idea of its intended overall structure and/or subject. deepen sense of the value of any single text view it comparatively, - alongside texts of its type

12. In US /different countries literary genre might be differently grouped/classified loosely classified eg Library: Dewey System Fiction & Non Fiction

13. Non- Fiction “informational” material. These types of books provide information that is factual. Nothing is make-believe in these types of materials. More specific examples of this type of genre would be...

14. Biographies: A true account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another. Autobiographies: The biography of a person written by that person.

15. Fiction author can make up whole story. can also choose to include : factual information in a made-up story.

16. Sub - genres often divided into sub-genres : Eg. 3 basic kinds of literature the classic genres of Ancient Greece – poetry, drama, and prose.poetrydramaprose

17. Tragedy: A Genre Historically: Greek Tragedy: Aristotle's Poetics Medieval Tragedy and the Wheel of Fortune Elizabethan or Shakespearean Tragedy The Problem Play or Drama of Ideas

18. Poetry : sub-genre Example: subdivided into epic, epic lyric, lyric dramatic

19. Historical 450-1066 Old English. (Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500 Middle English Period 1500-1660 The Renaissance 1558-1603 Elizabethan Age 1603-1625 Jacobean Age 1625-1649 Caroline Age 1649-1669 Commonwealth Period 1660-1785 The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700 The Restoration 1700-1745 The Augustan Age. (Age of Pope) 1745-1785 The Age of Sensibility. (Age of Johnson) 1785-1830 The Romantic Period 1832-1901 The Victorian Period 1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites 1880-1901 Aestheticism and Decadence 1901-1914 The Edwardian Period 1910-1936 The Georgian Period 1914- The Modern Period

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