Historical, Cultural & Critical Contexts of Literature Flashcards
Who was Herman Melville?
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
What is the Lost Generation?
The ‘Lost Generation’ was the generation that came of age during World War I.
Who is George Eliot?
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
What was the Beat Generation?
The Beat Generation was a group of authors whose literature explored and influenced American culture in the post-World War II era.
Who was Jonathan Swift?
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
What is Expressionism?
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.
What is human sexuality?
Human sexuality is the capacity of humans to have erotic experiences and responses.
What is literature as an art form?
Literature, in its broadest sense, is any single body of written works.
Who was Ernest Hemingway?
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.
What is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction is a critical outlook concerned with the relationship between text and meaning.
What is Postmodernism?
Postmodernism describes both an era and a broad movement that developed in the late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism which marked a departure from modernism.
What is New Criticism?
New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.
Who was John Bunyan?
John Bunyan was an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Who was Alexander Pope?
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet.
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Criticisim
Who was Matthew Arnold?
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.
What is formalism?
Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text.
Who was Sir Walter Scott?
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America.
Who was John Donne?
John Donne was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England.
Who was John Milton?
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
What is a heroic couplet?
A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.
What is the Renaissance?
The Renaissance is a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.
Who was Jane Austen?
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
What were the High Middle Ages?
The High Middle Ages or High Medieval Period was the period of European history around the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
What is a printing press?
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink.
