PERIODS Flashcards
periods of literature 7 eras
the medieval. 500-1600 MRER VMP the renaissance. 16,17 the enlightenment18 romanticism19 Victorianism19 modernism20 postmodernisum20
the medial author, poem
the poem Beowulf author unknown
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury tales
the medieval characteristic
religious context, anonymity
the renaissance authors
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, Francis
bacon
renaissance features
literature as art, humanism/dignity, society joy/
printing press,
first critic author era, name, book.
Phillip Sidney the defense of poesy
the enlightenment authors
Voltaire, Wollstonecraft, usa ben franklin
Voltaire
enlightenment, Candide
Wollstonecraft
Vindication on the rights of women
the enlightenment features
logic, science, intellectual discourses
romanticism features
nature, emotions
romanticism authors
William Wordsworth, William Blake, Samual Taylor Coleridge, John Keats
first novels which era, author
romanticism, jane Austin, Bronte sisters
romanticism the USA
Walt Whitman Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville
William Wordsworth
romanticism
William Blake
romanticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
romanticism
John Keats
romanticism
Victorianism feature 4
romance-love, hard work, virtue, good people have good future
Victorianism authors, the main form
Charles Dicken George Elliot novel
modernism authors
t.s.eliot poem waste of land, James Joyce Ulysses Virginia wolf Mr Dalaway, the lighthouse Joyce portair of artis as a young men
modernism feature
cynism, art for art sake, author’s thought was fractured, frightening situation- war
postmodern era authors
Kurt Vonnegut, hunter s Thompson, Thomas pynchonphylp k dick, Bret Easton Ellis, David foster Wallace
postmodern era feature
deconstruction
