ED 2024 Flashcards
Anglo-Norman (characteristics)
Chivalric romantic verse / courtly love
Anglo-Saxon (characteristics)
Riddles / chronicles / poems / runes / alliteration / kennings / heroism
Middle English (characteristics)
Medieval life, thoughts, customs, beliefs; pilgrims tell stories: so many genres and perspectives shown on the nobility, the church and on commoners
Renaissance (characteristics)
Less god / carpe diem / exploration / classics rebirth / morality miracle plays
Puritanism (context)
Cultural life in UK comes to standstill
Puritanism (characteristics)
Moral, religious matters / predestination / god as punisher
Augustan age (context)
more readers / middle class comes in to existence
the Romantic period (characteristics)
Ordinary people / feelings / nature / middle ages / the poor / childlike innocence / supernatural / individual / imagination
Augustan age (characteristics)
Birth of novels / roots of romanticism
The victorian era (characteristics)
Class, social advancement / science v religion / industrialisation / women in society / realism / gothic / supernatural / fear of moral decay
The victorian era (context)
Industrial nation / terrible working+living conditions / religious doubts / moral crisis / scientific discoveries / cities overpopulated
Modernism (context)
New sciences (freud / psychology) / industrial world / art / music / architecture
20thC poetry
free verse / language not ornate / personal / freedom subject matter / everyday life / experimental yet traditionalist
20thC drama
ordinary people / dysfunctional families / social and political criticism / everyday life / realistic characters
20thC prose
Unstable/unreliable meaning/time setting/narrator / rejection of realism / narrator=main charactor / experimental language / stream of conscioussness
