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LIterary Eras FORM 4 Flashcards

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1550 - 1660

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Renaissance

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Authors in Renaissance

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Plato
Plutarch
Socrates

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Main types of text in Renaissance

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Poetry and Drama

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Themes of writing in Renaissance

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Interested in thoughts of the Ancient World- inspired by or retelling old Greek and Roman Stories

What it means to be human

New era or art and culture - The ReBIrth or ReAwakening after the middle ages

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1660 - 1790 era

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Enlightment and Neoclassical

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Writers in the Enlightenment

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Robert Swift
John Locke

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Influential events in the Enlightenment

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TBD

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Types of writing in the Enlightenment

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Start of the modern novel

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What event meant end of faith in Enlightenment ideas

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the French Revolution

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1790-1830 era

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Romantic era

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Authors in the Romantic Era

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Wordsworth
John Keats

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Events influencing the Romantic Era

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Urbanisation
Industrialisation
Loss of nature through buildings

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Types of writing in Romantic Era

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Romantic Poetry
Gothic NOvel

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Themes in Romantic Era

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Celebrating nature
Exploring feelings
Beauty
Freedom from rules/Spontentaity
Emphasis on individualism not society

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1830-1901

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Victorian Era

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Writers in the Victorian Era

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George Elliot
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Bronte Sisters

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Form and themes in writing in Victorian Era

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The Novel was most prominent form of literature

Themes
- Theory of Evolution (Darwin);
- adventures in the sea
- criticism of war
- fables

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1901 - 1945

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Modernist Era

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Modernist Authors

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Ernest Hemingway

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Events influencing Modernist Writers

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Spanish Flu
WW One
WW two
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Themes in Modernist Writing

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Exploring the trauma of conflict or war - confusion isolation

Writing about inner psychology - what do people think they way they do

Writing about chaos in the world and irrationality

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1945 to present

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Port Modernism

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Author in Post Modernism

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Themes in Post Modernist writing

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Realistic depictions of major events in their time

Sceptism
Suspicion of reason - is anyone telling the truth?

Role of ideology in asserting political or economic power

Gay Rights Civil Rights Feminism

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Events influencing POst Modernist writers

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World Wide Web
TV
Civil Rights
Gay movemnet
Feminism
Revelation of Holecaust

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What date was Renaissance Era

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15505-1660

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Date of Enlightenment

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1660 - 1790

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date of Romantic

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1790-1830

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date of Victorian

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1830-1901

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date of Modernist

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1901-1945

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date of post modernist

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1945 to present

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Nature was a theme of what era ?

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Romanitic

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trauma, conflict and isolation was a theme in what era

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Modernist - from the wars

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the Ancient World was a theme in what era

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Renaissance

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What does Renaissance mean

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the rebirth or reawakening - a new era in art and cultre (after the Middle Ages)

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What era was inspired by Ancient greek and roman stories

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The renaissance

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What era was influenced by TV and the World Wide Web

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post modernist

38
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what era are the Bronte Sisters from

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Victorian

39
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what era has the themes
- loss of trust in politics and religion
- limiting the power of kings
- less focus on God

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Enlightenment Period

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what era had the theme or loss of access to nature

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Romantic - they celebrated nature but were also losing access to nature because of urbanization and industrialization

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