Introduction - History of English Language and Literature

Introduction - History of English Language and Literature

Hello everyone, Let me give you a brief overview about this course - the history of English language and literature.

This is going to be the story of English language and the story of English literature and we should be talking about both these aspects simultaneously as the course progresses and who will be interested in this course this is one of the core courses of for any student of English literature but this could also be of use and interest to you if you have a gentle interest in literature and if you are one of those who are interested in knowing a little bit more about the historical context and the other sequential and chronological details of how the literature came into being how it influenced a different kinds of people and how it's a historical positioning has been.

Let me also try to give you few more details about how the course is going to be structured and what and how we would be covering this entire course so to begin with let me try and answer a few questions for you so that the course structures and the intentions of the course become Clear.

So what exactly is this course about this course is a chronological and narrative history of English literature and when I say English literature I have in mind English and whatever literature has been produced by the English people and whatever has evolved from the land of England. So we use English in the very limited sense throughout this course we should be focusing on -The history of England, how literature emerged in England and how it went on to become a global kind of literature in the later centuries and which period and do we have in mind when did all of this history happen in that sense we should be looking at a very vast history from  Wulf to Woolf with our being the old texts Beowulf and this is Virginia Woolf.

So in that sense we are covering a very broad history from the time of a WULF to the time of VIRGINIA WOOLF. It would also be pretty broad from the Anglo - Saxons to the postmodern period and in terms of language we should also be looking at the evolution of language from the Old English time to the Modern English.

So how do we propose to go about this cause, we should be framing this course in multiple ways and especially the highlights of the course we will focus on various Non - literary features and how they went on to shape and redefine literature at particular points of time. So we'll be looking at religion, politics, society, culture and all other related aspects that inform the framing of society and also the framing of the literature.

In this course we'll be talking about not just about authors we will be talking about authors, Kings, rulers, commoners and even about scientists, artists and a whole set of people who have contributed to the emergence of a particular kind of writing or a particular kind of dissemination of literature which is going to be our location where has all of these things happen.

Interestingly if you are a student of literature and if you are interested in knowing a bit more about literature it would be a matter of much curiosity for you to know that all of these even happen in battlefields, in Church, at courts,  in coffee houses, in theatres, in publishing houses and even on the streets.

So this is the kind of rage and with this kind of versatility that or we should be trying to bring into this course and we now address the final and perhaps the most important question for you why is this course important for you this course is important for you and anyone who has got an inclination towards literature because it's very important to see the connections it Build. The more important to see how text and context have been framed at different historical points of time and it also enables us to see the continuity which has been built into this entire historical narrative so here is this course for you history of English language and literature we would try and give you a very holistic perspective of how literature's have and how they have come to mark and define the ways of being itself.

I hope this course will be of much interest and used to you and we look forward to seeing more of you in this course thank you .