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34 Cards in this Set
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450-1066
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Old English (Anglo Saxon)
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Old English (Anglo Saxon)
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Developed from Oral Tradition
▫ 8th c. Old English Poetry emerged ▫ Beowulf (Germanic Epic Poem) |
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Middle English
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▫ The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
▫ Morte d’ Arthur by Thomas Malory |
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1066-1500
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Middle English
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1500-1660
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-The Renaissance-a cultural rebirth
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-The Renaissance-a cultural rebirth
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▫ Elizabethan Age: Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, John Donne
▫ Jacobean Age: King James Bible (King James I reigned from 1603-1625) ▫ Caroline Age: Lyric Poetry emerged-Robert Herrick, John Donne (reign of King Charles I 1625-1649) ▫ Commonwealth Period also known as the Puritan Interregnum: occurred after the execution of King Charles I in 1649 ▫ All of the above are political movements |
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The Neoclassical Period
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▫ The Restoration: return of constitutional monarchy, comedies (happy ending, not necessarily funny) return-the poet John Dryden
▫ The Augustan Age also known as the Age of Pope: emphasis on classicism-“The Rape of the Lock”**** ▫ The Age of Sensibility or the Age of Johnson: tearful situations, fainting, repentant and forgiven villains |
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1600-1785
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The Neoclassical Period
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-The Romantic Period
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▫ Emotion and freedom
▫ Stressed by the individual ▫ Spontaneity ▫ Solitary life rather than life in society ▫ Devotion to beauty, love and the worship of nature ▫ ----William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats |
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1785-1830
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-The Romantic Period
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The Victorian Period
The Pre-Raphaelites |
Aestheticism and Decadence
▫ Literature was concerned with social problems ▫ The English Novel (long, drawn out plots, dramatic characters) emerged ▫ Moral earnestness, complacency, respectability ▫ Prudery ▫ Hypocrisy of Victorian Middle Class ▫ ---Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Brontes, Thomas Hardy ▫ The Essay as a literature device emerged---Matthew Arnold ▫ Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Brownings, Rosettis |
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1832-1901-
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The Victorian Period
The Pre-Raphaelites |
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-The Edwardian Period
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▫ Age of prosperity (opulence)
▫ Stability ▫ Stylish elegance ▫ ----H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett |
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1901-1914
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-The Edwardian Period
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The Georgian Period
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▫ Writers started to experiment with their writing
▫ ---Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, Noel Coward ▫ Dramatists: George Bernard Show, Somerset Maugham |
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1910-1936-
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The Georgian Period
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The Modern and Post-Modern Periods
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▫ Breaking away from established rules and traditional values
▫ Writers focused on the alienated; the consciousness of the individual ▫ These periods include: The Symbolist Movement, post-Impressionism, Existentialism, Expressionism, Surrealism ▫ The writers of this time also experimented with their work ▫ The artistic equivalents were emerging as well ▫ ---Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, August Strindberg, Luigi Pirandello |
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1914-1945-
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The Modern and Post-Modern Periods
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-Colonial Period
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▫ Spans from the founding of 1st settlement to the Revolution
▫ Centered on religious, practical or historical themes ▫ ---Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Anne Bradstreet |
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1607-1776
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-Colonial Period
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The Revoultionary Age
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▫ Greatest documents of American History
▫ Paine’s Common Sense, Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, Hamilton’s The Federalist Papers, The Constitution of the United States of America |
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1765-1790-
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The Revoultionary Age
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-The Early National Period
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▫ The 1st truly American style emerged
▫ ---Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe |
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1775-1828
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-The Early National Period
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The Romantic Period also known as:
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▫ The American Renaissance and/or The Age of Transcendentalism “beat of your own drum”
▫ The works are original and helped shape the ideas, ideals, and literatry aims of many American Writers ▫ --Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Longfellow |
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1828-1865-
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The Romantic Period also known as:
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1865-1900
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-The Realistic Period
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-The Realistic Period
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▫ Represents life as it is and convinces the reader that these characters exist and the situations might happen
▫ Focuses on the ordinary and commonplace ▫ ---Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin |
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1900-1914-
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The Naturalistic Period
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The Naturalistic Period
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▫ A more accurate depiction than realism
▫ Often depicts life as gritty and un-just ▫ It aligns itself with post-Darwinism (the idea that characters are higher order animals whose character and behavior is based on heredity and environment) ▫ The writings are frank, crude and tragic ▫ ---Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair |
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1914-1939-
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The American Modernist Period
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The American Modernist Period
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1920’s, 30’s
The Jazz Age The Harlem Renaissance The “Lost Generation” ▫ Experimented with form and style ▫ ---Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, WEB Dubois, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Eugene O’Neil |
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-The Contemporary Period
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1950’s, 60’s, 70’s
Beat Writers Counterculture ▫ ---Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker |
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1939-Present
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-The Contemporary Period
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