Lingue

– A man is considered mad, but he thinks it isn’t so because of his lucidity, his capacity to hear. He is obsessioned by the eye of an old man. For seven days he went at midnight in his house, making no noise. Then he saw his eyes with a ray of light, but they were closed. So he went away. The eight he went there but the old man wake, so he could see th

The novel was the best achievement of the 18th literature because it’s the form which most fully reflects the taste of the time, the new tendency of culture and the exceptions of the reading public . In this century the novel, whose primary criteria were independence from the tradition of past thought and faith only in the individual experience , alway

THEMES

Their first concern was with nature. Poets were filled with pleasure when they contemplated the external natural world. They often regarded nature as a manifestation of a divine power on earth and also sensed a correspondence between landscapes and man’s feelings and values.
The second unifying idea was imagination, a creative f

Works
Northanger Abbey (1798), a parody of the Gothic novel; Emma (published in 1816); Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), two novels of manners: the same genre continue till now with sit-coms.

Narrative technique
All of Jane Austen’s novels centre on experience of a young woman, the heroine, who through a

The Wife of Bath is the most fully realized character in the Canterbury Tales. Headstrong, boisterous and opinionated, she wages a struggle against the denigration of women and the taboos against female sexuality. She issues a number of rebuttals against strict religious claims for chastity and monogamy, using Biblical examples to show that the Bible do

To overcome this melancholia, the Romantic artist seeks to escape. This escape has two aspects: a) In time-The poet retreats into the past which becomes attractive because it is irrevocable and offers a heroism modern life lacks. b) In space-The artist tries to create other worlds where he can realize his own true self. Freedom and Death-The Romantic s

ZU DEM TEXT „ÜBER MICH SELBST“ –H. BÖLL-

Im Text „Über mich selbst“ behandelt Böll seinen Leben vom Ende des Ersten bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit einem humoristisch-sarkastischen Ton.
Er wurde 1917 in Köln geboren. Er beschreibt dieses Jahr als das „schlimmstes Hungerjahr“. Sein Vater war gegen den Krieg und er verfluchte de...

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