DISCOVERING LITERATURE ANGLAIS 1E-TERMINALE SERIE L 2011

Une introduction à la littérature des pays anglophones en quatre parties richement illustrées :

Landmarks : des repères sur les grandes périodes de l’histoire littéraire de la

Grande-Bretagne, des Etats-Unis et de pays du Commonwealth

From the Renaissance to the Elizabethan Age
The 17th century
The 18th century
The Romantic Age
The Victorian Age
The 20th century: until World War II
The 20th century: after World War II
From the Colonial Age to 1900 (US)
The 20th century: until World War II (US)
The 20th century: after World War II (US)
Canada qAustralia and New Zealand
The Caribbean
South Africa
India

Literary trails :
9 dossiers pour découvrir des genres ou des thèmes typiquement
anglo-saxons
à travers des extraits d’œuvres

Utopias and Dystopias
Gothic Literature
Political and social statements
Humour & nonsense
Feminine Voices
A diversity of voices
Literary experimentation
The literature of the absurd
Colonialism and post-colonialism

Tools : des activités pour découvrir ou réviser un vocabulaire critique de base
en anglais

Drama

A few poetic genres

Rhyme and sonorities

Stress, metre and rhythm

Rhetorical terms

Prose and fiction: genres, plot and characters

Point of view

Reporting words and thoughts

Images

Tone

Tasks : des activités pour mettre en place une démarche actionnelle sur tout type d’extraits littéraires

You are a publisher

You are a critic

You are a film/stage director

You are a script writer

You are a comic strip writer

You are a journalist

Changing the text

Adding and comparing

Comparing readings of a text

Imitating a text

Into another genre

Choosing a point of view

Playing with style

Desert Island Books

Fifty-five word stories

Write a fairy tale

Une ouverture à l’histoire des Arts