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Literary history Flashcards

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What is the significance of Beowulf?

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It was an Anglo-Saxon tale about Scandinavian ancestors. Tale about heroes and monsters involving a quest. Anonymous author.

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What is the significance of Caedmon’s Hymn?

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The earliest surviving written record of Old English poetry. He can’t attend a feast because he can’t compose poetry, after the angel visited him when he was with the animals, he could.
=> he praises God

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What is the order of rulers in England?

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Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Tudor House, House of Stuart, Georgians

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What is epic poetry?

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Narrative poems, they tell a story

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What are ingredients for epic poetry?

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  • heroes and monsters
  • travel and quest
  • divine (=goddelijke) intervention
  • usually starts in the middle of the story
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What are genres in Old English/Anglo-Saxon?

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  • Hymn = religious song
  • Epic = narrative poem
  • Riddle = puzzle in the form of a phase or a question
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What is Old English Language also called?

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Anglo-Saxon language

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When did the Anglo-Saxon period end?

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In 1066 with the battle of Hastings

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What happened with the battle of Hastings?

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William the Bastard was promised the throne. However Harold got the throne. William won the battle and Harold died by getting arrow through his eye.

The battle was the start of the Norman Conquest of England.

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What is one of our main sources from the battle of Hastings?

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The Bayeux Tapestry, with chronicles of the events leading up to the battle and itself. Almost 70m long, not made in Bayeux but England.

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What are the three genres of middle English?

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Fables, allegory and the Arthurian literature

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What was the Great Vowel Shift? And why did it happen?

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Change around the 15th and 16th with the way words are pronounced. The vowels are made longer.
Not sure why, but probably because of migrants of other places.

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What were some names of Elizabeth I, and line did she end?

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Gloriana, The virgin queen, good queen bess. She was the last monarch of the house of Tudor.

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What was Puratism?

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In the 16th and 17th century. Were protestant. Moral and religious lifestyle. Anti-fun.

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What was an important new characteristic of the neoclassical period?

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The use of satire

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What was the Jacobite risings between?

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Catholic and protestant

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What was the Romantic Period new idea?

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Reaction against the prevailing neoclassical era ideas about realism and society.

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What were some characteristics of the Romantic Period?

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  • idealization of women
  • idealization of nature
  • individualism
  • use of imagination
  • feelings over rational thinking
  • aesthetic thinking
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What was a typical feature of the Victorian Era?

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Imperialism. The white man’s burden, and othering.

20
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What are some Victorian Era genres?

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  • detective stories
  • short stories
  • investigative journalism
  • colonial literature
  • medieval revival
  • fairytale
  • ballad
21
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What two people are often involved in VE?

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The noble savage

And the savage other

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What is medieval revival?

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Intertextuality = authors base their text on another story

The Victorians thought the medieval era was pure and simple.

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What is a ballad?

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A poem that tells a story.

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What are some VE features?

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  • colonial literature - the other
  • imperialism and British superiority
  • stoicism - industry, succes vs failure, self-control
  • morality
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What are some Postcolonialism characteristics?

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  • diaspora = people who have been displaced but have an inherited ideology of ‘home’
  • Hybridity = blending the old culture with the new one
  • double consciousness = being divided in terms of cultural identification

–> people from marginalized/colonized countries start telling their own stories

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What was the literary of exhaustion?

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  • disillusioned with the war
  • absurdism
  • the death of god
  • the death of the war
    (e. g. suicide in the trenches)
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What is magical realism?

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Adding fantastic or impossible elements to a story that is otherwise normal.

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What is pastiche?

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A work of art, piece of writing, etc, that is created by deliberately copying the style of something/one else.

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What are typical characteristics of modernist literature?

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  • experimentation
  • individualism
  • free verse
  • absurdity
  • symbolism
    influenced by ww1 and lit of exhaustion
30
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Which lit text did Thomas Malory write?

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Le Morte D’Arthur

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What was William Shakespeare’s importance?

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He was a playwright, poet and actor. Also known as The Bard of Avon. He used blank verse. And he was alive at the same time as Queen Elizabeth. EME

32
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What and when was John Milton?

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Early Modern English, an English poet.

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Who was Mary Wollstonecraft and why is she important?

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Also known as the ‘mother of feminism’. RP. She wrote ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’.
In which she advocated for women to have an education so they would not end up aggressive house moms. She also advised women to act more masculine to gain respect.

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Which literature text did Lord Byron write?

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The eve of waterloo RP

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Who was Jane Austen and why is she important?

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She wrote pride and prejudice in the RP. Her books were published anonymously, ‘a lady’. She was one of the first female authors.

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Who was Mary Shelly and what lit book did she write?

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She was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft. She wrote Frankenstein. VE

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What lit book did Rudyard Kipling write?

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The Jungle book, he was from India, VE.

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What important book did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle write?

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Sherlock Holmes, VE. He was also a doctor beside being a writer.

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What importance did F. Scott Fitzgerald have?

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20-21st century. He wrote the Great Gatsby.

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What kind of writer was Virginia Woolf?

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A feminist author, 20-21st century.

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What kind of text did Siegfried Sassoon write?

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Suicide in the trenches

–> harshly satirical style 20-21st

42
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What text did Salman Rushdie write?

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The Prophet’s hair

20-21st

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