Tuesday, April 10, 2007

History of English Literature


2 comments:

rania alqeshawi said...

This delightful introduction to English literature, engaging, readable, and wise, is enlivened by the opinions and pleasures of a fine scholar-critic. Historically, it ranges from the Middle Ages to the present.
The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S. Naipaul is Trinidadian. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels departments and programmes practising English studies in secondary and tertiary educational systems.

Sameh A. Palestine said...

Hello Rania,
I want to catch ur attention for a second.
Suliman Rushdi is Iranian not Indian. He fled to Britiin in the 1980th as he wrote the Satanic versess.
Regards,
Sameh