So Literature Art History has kicked off, and kicked off in pretty good style! We’ve had our first week of articles, which have been both educational and thought provoking! If you haven’t seen these articles yet, please do check them out, and most importantly favourite and comment on them to show your support!
Art History- Welcome to Literature!
Hello everyone! 
This Month, the ArtHistoryProject has collaborated with CRLiterature to bring you a whole month of Literature history! We have got a very exciting month ahead, varying through an array for specialist subjects from six word stories, to chidlren’s literature and from tricksters to fantasy literature. Hopefully there will be lots of informative articles that interest you as a reader!
From early hieroglyphics to 50 Shades of Grey, literature has had a wonderful and varied journey, one which spreads over many genres, styles and cultures. This month we will be looking at just some of these through a series of articles written by members of the literature community. These articles are snippets of the great history this proud art form has to boast.
We are inviting everyone, not just “writers” to come and get involved with this month! Maybe you will uncover a subject you knew nothing about but found deeply interesting, or feel
Children's Literature, Morality + Changing IdealsIntroduction
With the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, and its gradual integration into society, people at last had access to literature. It was William Caxton who first saw the opportunity to make money by printing and selling those stories and fables hitherto told by word of mouth.
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At this time, literature did not have age-specific target audiences. Inevitably, some stories appealed to children more than others. Robin Hood was especially popular, while Aesop’s fables offered entertainment and life lessons to adults and children alike.
It is, of course, impossible to say exactly when and how literature was identified as a useful tool in teaching morality to children. It is speculated that there was no concept of ‘childhood’ before the eighteenth century, although historians debate this, as historians are apt to do.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Cold winter evenings or blustery Autumn days had the soundtrack of my Mother's voice reading Beatrix Potter books out loud when I was younger. In fact, the wonderful children's books were the epitome of my childhood. The illustrations were just perfect and the stories, whilst simple, were mysterious and adventurous in their own way. Beatrix Potter was born in 1866, South Kensington, London. She was said to live a lonely life, being educated at home by a governess and so perhaps that's why she delved into a fantasy world of rabbits, geese and other traditional animals.
Beatrix's illustrations come from her copious studies of her own pets, and the animals that roamed the gardens of the places in which she holidayed as a child. The fascinating fact was that Beatrix's illustrations became greetings cards before her books were created. I see her drawings on cards in shops now and I always thought that it had developed the other way around. Her first boo
History of Children's Literature to the 1900's:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcrliterature:
This is a history of the development of children's literature. Some of the more philosophical points were touched upon by ThornyEnglishRose in her article "Children's Literature, Morality + Changing Ideals." For this article, I'm going to focus on the major historical events in the world of children's literature up to the turn of the 20th century. I can't possibly touch on this genre's rich history, so I encourage you to read more on the subject if the subject interests you.
Introduction
Prior to the mid-18th century, children’s literature did not exist. While there were many stories popular amongst children, such as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, they were written for an adult audience. Around this time, John Locke popularized the idea of each child’s brain as tabula
The Bible and its Influence on Literature
Hey guys! Let's talk about the Bible!
Now that we have that awkwardness out of the way, whether you believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God or not, Western literature has its roots in the Christian Bible. Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor says, “Even those who aren't religious or don't live within the Judeo-Christian tradition may work something in from Job or Matthew or the Psalms”. With Western Literature, inspiration can be traced from Shakespeare, Greek, or--what we're focusing on now--the Bible.
The story of the Fall of Man can be seen in a few pieces of literature, especially with “Araby” by James Joyce, a story that focuses on a boy who goes to the Araby to buy something for a girl who can't go herself. The loss of innocence is evident when he overhears a woman and two men flirting with each other, something that challenges the boy's
The Visual Novel: Video Games as a Literary MediumWhat is it?
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A visual novel is more or less exactly what it sounds like. It's a novel that can be played. While the form has been popular in Japan for decades, they have only recently reached Western audiences, thanks largely in part to the influx of anime, manga, and Japanese Role Playing Games (JRPGs) saturating the market. Consequently, many games of this type have anime influences in the design.
The visual novel is most easily compared to interactive fiction or the Choose Your Own Adventure series - at various points, the player is prompted to make some sort of choice that has the potential to affect the outcome of the game. A typical game usually has at least three endings; a Bad, Neutral, and Good (also called the "Perfect" or "True" ending). However, this is not necessarily standard - most seem to fall somewhere between 4 and 10 unique endings. Ofte
Art History: Writing a Pantomime:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcrliterature:
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Pantomime is easy to write? (Oh no it isn’t!)
Pantomime is a traditional form of theatre, which in its most recognised form originated from the Victorian era and continues to be a prominent aspect of British theatre today. Writing a Pantomime as a scriptwriter may seem like an easy feat- the traditional fairy-tale put onto stage, but in fact it is a style where the traditional conventions are still a strong element of modern pantomime scriptwriting.
This art history article not only shares where the origins of pantomime came from, but shares some of those conventions which as a scriptwriter need consider before writing.
The birth of Pantomime
Like most forms of theatre, the origins of pantomime derive from the ancient Greeks. Greek theatre was not only an entertainment form, but a celebration of the god Dionysus and a way of retelling the stories we now know as Greek Myths. Significant
Last Sunday, we also had a Literature Pub Quiz. This was won by Vocable, with TheSkaBoss taking second place! Just for fun, below are the 30 questions asked. We’ll post the answers in next week’s roundup, but feel free to have a go!
- One of the biggest sellers this year has been the “erotic novel" 50 shades of grey, but what does the “EL” Is author E L James stand for?
- Who wrote the short story “The Happy Prince” in 1888?
- Guess the Poem Title and Author from the following lines: The bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: Mayst hear the merry din.'
- What story features Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?
- How many lines are in a classic sonnet?
- Who wrote the 70’s play “Abigail’s party?”
- In order, list the titles of the twilight series
- What is the name of the central character in His Dark materials series?
- Identify the Shakespeare play from the plot description: Twins separated by shipwreck, woman poses as boy, countess falls for boy(woman) but all revealed in the end when reunited with twin brother.
- 12 Whose “Laughable Lyrics” included The Quangle Wangle’s Hat and The Dong with a Luminous Nose?
- Sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy described as what in a 1868 novel of the same name?
- Who wrote the award winning novel “The life of Pi”?
- Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- In which country does the story "The Pied Piper Of Hamelin" take place?
- Name the 5 characters which collectively made up the Famous Five in Enid Byltons novels?
- Which of Jane Austen's six novels did she write first?
- From which novel did “Big Brother” originate from?
- "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" is the opening lines from what famous tale & Author?
- Guess the poem title and author from the following lines: “half a league half a league half a league onward”
- Which Greek playwright wrote “Oedipus rex”?
- What is the title of the chapter where Bilbo Baggins first encounters Gollum and eventually takes the one ring from him after an exchange of riddles?
- What is the name given to a piece of prose longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a full novel?
- Which D H Lawrence novel was famously banned in several countries due to its sexual nature?
- What is an ISBN?
- What is the surname of Narnia children Lucy, Edmund, Peter & Susan?
- Guess the Poem Title and Author from the following lines: Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or scurry .She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up, Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.
- In the Harry Potter series, what does the spell “Alohamora” do?
- Which Dickens novel starts “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness”
- What is the following fixed poetic form? “39–line poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three-line stanza, known either as an envoi or tornada. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern.”
- P L Travers created which infamous children’s character who stars in a film and musical with the same name?
Keep an eye out on CRLiterature and ArtHistoryProject for week 2 of Literature Art History!
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