İngiliz Edebiyatı 101

Adams 101

by Brian Boone, Özlem Özarpacı (Translator)

Chaucer’dan Orwell’a Beowulf’tan Yüzüklerin Efendisi’ne dek belli başlı yazar ve eserleri kısa kısa inceleyen İngiliz Edebiyatı 101 yaklaşık 1500 yıllık bir süre içinde İngiltere’de hangi edebiyat biçim, üslup ve tekniklerinin, hangi fikir ve temaların kullanıldığı konusunda sizi aydınlatıyor. Aynı zamanda yazar ve şairlerin yaşamlarından çok ilginç kesitlere de yer veriyor, önemli eserlerin nasıl ve hangi koşullarda yazıldıklarına ışık tutuyor. Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen ve Daniel Defoe gibi yazarları Frankenstein, Ebenezer Scrooge, Bay Darcy ve Robinson Crusoe gibi evrenselleşmiş karakterleri yaratmaya iten motivasyonları ele alıyor. Edebiyat meraklıları bir okuma kılavuzu niteliğini de taşıyan bu kitabı çok beğenecek.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literature, History, Ebooks, English Literature, Reference, Unfinished

250 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Brian Boone has contributed material to Funny or Die, The Onion, Bunny Ears, Vulture, ClickHole, RiffTrax, CBC Comedy, The New Yorker, MAD, Weekly Humorist, Looper, Someecards, How Stuff Works, and many high profile podcasts. He's the author of many children's joke books, the music trivia title I Love Rock n' Roll (Except When I Hate It) and is a longtime contributor and editor for the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series. He lives in San Verguenza, California, with his family.

Reviews

[Roxana Chirilă · Rating 1 out of 5]

I opened the book. Came across Beowulf.

"It more or less invented the fantasy genre."

Less, book. LESS. Decidedly less. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to have "invented" it. Between much older books with fantastic elements (like, say, the Odyssey) and modern fantasy being invented much later, I can't even imagine what this sentence might try to refer to. Unless it's simply a fabrication.

Also, apparently Beowulf "directly gave the English and Western literary canon a lot of the hero mythology and hallmarks of genre fiction still used today". That would be quite an achievement for a text that was forgotten for many, many centuries.

Oh, well. Maybe that's Beowulf. Let's flip forward - Chaucer? The Canterbury Tales? Here's a section called "Stories in Poem Form", let's see what that's about.

"And even though these stories were written in the very specific heroic couplet style,"

Uh oh. Only some of these stories were in heroic couplet indeed, but others definitely weren't. That's part of the fun of the Canterbury Tales: it's very varied.

Check this out:

"Whan seyd was al this miracle, every man
As sobre was that wonder was to se,
Til that oure Hooste japen tho bigan,
And thanne at erst he looked upon me,"

This isn't a couplet. Because it takes four lines to rhyme. It's a royal stanza from the prologue to Sir Thopas's story.

And check this out, from the tale of Sir Thopas:

"Listeth, lordes, in good entent,
And I wol telle verrayment
Of myrthe and of solas,
Al of a knyght was fair and gent
In bataille and in tourneyment;
His name was sire Thopas."

Entent-verrayment-gent-tourneyment, but also solas-Thopas. That's... not a couplet. It's 6 verses rhyming aabaab.

Chaucer did that. He was versatile.

"And even though these stories were written in the very specific heroic couplet style, Chaucer's language is the vernacular of the day; poetic structure combined with common speech [...] because they are stories about all kinds of aspects of regular life, told by regular people."

*Someone* hasn't read the book at all before writing about it. The stories aren't "about all kinds of aspects of regular life" - some of them are decidedly stories in the popular genres of the time, be they heroic knightly, stories of saints and so on. It's a bit like calling "James Bond: Skyfall" a story about all kinds of aspects of regular life, with the problem that it's not, it's a spy movie and we all know that's not real.

And also, there's a shapeshifting witch in a story. How's that for realism?

Anyway. I've seen all I needed to see. If by flipping through the book and reading a couple of pages I saw all this, I cannot trust that the rest of the volume might be better researched.

[Özgür Atmaca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bu 101 kelimesi biraz mevzuların hızlıca anlatıldığı, şehir kaosundan beyaz yakalı tüketim kavramına dayanıyor gibi hissediyorum ama bu kitap özelinde durum biraz farklı.

Beowulf'dan başlayan ve J.K. Rowlinge kadar uzanan ingiliz diline ve kültürüne büyük hizmetlerde bulunmuş tüm yazar tayfasını kapsıyor. Evet bilgiler kısa kısa ama eğer derinlikli bir İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı araştırması yapmıyorsanız size durum hakkında da bilgiler veriyor.
Ben özellikle Shakespeare ve Lewis Carrol kısmını severek merak ederek okudum. Gözlerimde John Fowles'ı aramadı değil...
Saygılar.

[Marianne Barron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Et kort crash course til engelsk litteratur fra Beowolf til J.K. Rowling. Omtale ligger her:
https://ebokhyllami.blogspot.ca/2018/...

[Malissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an English nerd who chose to major in a different subject, I really enjoyed this book! I love reading about classic authors and their books. The reason I knocked off a star is because I wasn't sure about the accuracy of some things presented as fact. Specifically, the section about Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) said that he took nude photos of Alice Liddell but I couldn't find any actual evidence of that. He took regular photos of her, and one of her in a costume that could be considered risqué possibly because it is out of context. He seemed to be struggling with a lot of physical, mental, and psychological issues but according to what we know of his actions, he never took actions that would be questionable. Anyway, the book was great and right up my interest but I'm not sure how accurate all the facts were.

[The Lazy Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5
Surprisingly eloquent and enlightening for being so brief.

[Archana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd say 3.5. I keep going back to the classics and so picked this up wanting a quick refresher and it did the job! Enjoyed it very much.

[Orpheus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Geç kaldım bu incelemeyi yazmaya. Çok geç kaldım. Lewis Carroll'un Beyaz Tavşan'ı gibiyim. Geç kaldım!

Bir türlü kafamı toplayıp da hayatı düzene sokamadım. Ama olsun, düzensizlikte de düzen buluruz herhalde. Gelelim bu kitaba...

Yüksek lisans için ön-hazırlık olur diye, edebiyata da bir yerden başlamam gerek diye 101'i alayım dedim. Tam anlamıyla bir giriş kitabı.

Edebiyatı dönemlere bölmüş:
Eski İngilizce,
Elizabeth Çağı,
Restorasyon,
Romantik Dönem,
Victoria ve Sanayi Devrimi,
Modernist Akım
ve Çağdaş İngiliz Edebiyatı.

Bu dönemlerin önde gelen yazarlarını ve şairlerini tanıtmış, hayatlarından bahsetmiş, varsa etkilendikleri akımları anlatmış, dile kattıkları kelimeler ya da kullanımlarından bahsetmiş, en önemli eserlerine değinmiş. Edebiyata başlıyorsanız tam sizlik bir kitap.

Bir çırpıda Chaucer öğreneyim, Beowulf kimmiş birazcık tanıyayım, Shakespeare neymiş ne değilmiş anlayayım diyorsanız beklemeden alın. Okuması çok keyifli, yazarlar ve şairler hakkında sürekli yeni bir şeyler öğrendiğim ve İngiliz edebiyatı genel hatlarıyla tanıdığım bir kitap oldu. Daha derine inmek isteyenlere de Mina Urgan İngiliz Edebiyatı kitapları önerilmiş, iki cilt halinde satılıyor, aklınızda bulunsun. Keyifli okumalar.

[Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Better than most textbooks

I decided after a few rough courses on literature in university to give this another try - on my own terms. I enjoyed the straight forward pace and the clear biographical materials. Had this been the textbook for my British Literature class, I would likely have been a bit more invested.

My only critique is it did not include passages of each other's work - like 3 pages or so of an actual story, or a short piece. I feel this would have boosted a few of the authors. Short blurbs were nice, but sometimes you need a longer passage to convey more feeling.

I'm not exactly going out of my way to pick up English Literature Textbooks, but I did enjoy this.

[Andrew Pratley · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enjoyable gallop about what is on offer in the realm of English literature.The book could have been three times as long but would unlikely have attracted the non-specialist. It is on that basis that I would recommend this as a useful primer which hopefully tempt the reader to go further. It has tempted me to go by paths less well trodden.

[İskender · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wanted to leave a comment about this book. a book in which you can find English authors, obviously. but the information in it goes no further than google information. I don't recommend it.

[Anthea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now I have a to-read list of English lit.

[Neva · Rating 4 out of 5]

💜6/52💜🌟🌟🌟🌟
📖Buscando material para complementar un curso de Literatura Inglesa, recordé este libro que ha estado en mi pila desde hace ya rato. Iba buscando únicamente los periodos que me iban a servir, pero terminé leyéndolo completo.
📖Esto ocurrió porque está escrito de tal forma que comprendes a la perfección la información que te está proporcionando, que además es variada. Dentro de un periodo, por ejemplo, puedes encontrar información de un autor en específico, el desarrollo personal y profesional del mismo, sus ideas principales y hasta datos curiosos y el lenguaje que maneja es bastante simple y amigable.
📖Si quieres saber a grandes rasgos sobre los periodos de la Literatura Inglesa, este libro es ideal para que conozcas los mayores exponentes de quienes han creado historias tan memorables y obras tan icónicas como lo han sido Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, las hermanas Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe y demás.
Abarca desde la creación de Beowulf hasta Harry Potter.
📖Disfruté mucho los extractos de sus obras, y sobre todo saber toda esta parte de su proceso creativo y las ideas que influyeron en su estilo de escritura.
📖También habla sobre cómo surgieron y evolucionaron los diferentes géneros como lo son las obras, la poesía, el cuento, la novela, incluso diccionarios.
📖Aún con sus 336 páginas, lo sentí corto para cada tema que cubrió ya que dependiendo del autor habían como 3 o 4 hojas destinadas y me quedé con deseos de saber un poco más, pero pues ese es el estilo del libro, es un acercamiento al recorrido de la Literatura Inglesa.
📖De esta colección hay dos libros sobre música y otro sobre ética.

[Ali Mehdi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book, and an extensive read nonetheless. As someone who has had no particular interest in literature, be it English literature, I was blown away by the craftsmanship and dedication sewed into this book. The depths that Boone went to in order to explain the life of many poets and authors, were so comprehensive, that I myself was left thinking about how he could have discovered so much about one's life. A great read for those looking to get into literature and poetry. A bad read for those who dislike minute details every second of reading (Details that could be unimportant to one's understanding of the text ). Overall 4/5 , a clap worthy read.

[garfieldtruther · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very brief descriptions of all the classics in English Lit. Almost wholly uncritical of the attitudes of the writers it deals with, but that seems to be a stylistic choice; the book definitely doesn't glorify the history of Britain itself. As for me, I think it's inspired me to read more as someone unfamiliar with most of the English canon. Would recommend if you're in my situation

[Valpot · Rating 4 out of 5]

really good cursory/basic introduction into the classics + English history! found myself learning many many new things and making newfound connections as well. there is a nice balance between the explanations on historical contexts, author-specific info, and the impact of each work. I enjoyed this read 😋

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

English Lit 101 takes briefs journeys through the lives and works of a number of English writers. Entries range from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to several more obscure writers. An interesting reference for the English teacher or an Anglophile.

[Elancharan Gunasekaran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Died a couple of times in the first hundred years, came back to life around 1900s.

[Dilara İşler · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was effective for learning the basics

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

God, french people piss me off

[Jared]

not too sure what will I get out of this. In which I did. It's serve as a great introduction for beginner. The world is so vast, with proper anecdotes in place and with the significant work being mentioned. Added to my read list. I intended to learn about poetry

[Thanu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Does its job as a introduction and/or refresher of some of the most prominent English literature. The chapters were logically sequenced and build upon each other.