Vocab 5 Flashcards
Belonging to or characteristic of the period from January 1901 to May 1910, when Edward VII was King of England, following the end of the Victorian age. Doesn’t have such a distinct literary identity as the Elizabethan or Victorian ages do. Influential essays by Virginia Woolf in the 1920s disparaged several of the foremost writers of the period using the term as a dismissive insult.
Edwardian
The authors who flourished during this reign or whose work is most often associated with it include W.B Yeats, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, E.M. forester, Bernard Shaw, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and John Mansfield
Edwardian
Belonging to or characteristic of the period 1558-1603 when Elizabeth I reigned as Queen of England, continuing the Tudor dynasty of her father Henry VIII but also bringing that dynasty to a close by dying childless. The name remains unambiguously applicable to the late 16th century.
Elizabethan
In English literature, that period has long been celebrated as an outstanding one in poetry, both dramatic and non- dramatic: it includes the work of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and Christopher Marlowe, along with the early work of Ben Jonson and the greater portion of Shakespeare’s. Landmarks in prose writing include the earlier works of Sir Francis Bacon.
Elizabethan
Scholar whose work is devoted to the Elizabethan period
Elizabethanist
movement of intellectual liberation that developed in Western Europe from the late 17th century to the late 18th. ‘Age of Reason’. It culminated with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Encycopedistes, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Its central idea was the need for human reason to clear away ancient superstition, prejudice, dogma, and injustice
Enlightenment
a revolutionary form of drama developed by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht from the late 1920s under the influence of Erwin Piscator. It involved rejecting the *Aristotelian models of dramatic unity in favour of a detached *narrative (hence ‘epic’) presentation in a succession of loosely related episodes interspersed with songs and commentary by a *chorus or narrator. He aimed for an alienation effect which would keep the audience coolly reflective and critical, partly by setting his plays in remote times and places.
Epic Theatre
Best examples of this drama are Brecht’s plays “The Threepenny Opera” “Mother Courage” and “The Good Woman of Setzuan”
epic Theatre
a short poem with a witty turn of thought; or a wittily condensed expression in prose. Originally a form of monumental inscription in ancient Greece. It was developed into a literary form by the poets of the Hellenistic age and by the Roman poet Martial, whose were often obscenely insulting. The art of it was cultivated in the 17th and 18th centuries in France and Germany by Voltaire, Schiller, and others.
Ben Jonson, Oscar Wild
Epigram
a novel written in the form of a series of letters exchanged among the characters of the story, with extracts from their journals sometimes included. A form of narrative often used in English and French novels of the 18th century, it has been revived only rarely since then, as in John Barth’s Letters. Pamela, Clarissa, La Nouvelle Heloise, and Liasons dangereuses.
Epistolary novel
the interpretation or explanation of a text. The term was first applied to the interpretation of religious scriptures, but has been borrowed by literary criticism for the analysis of any poetry or prose. Literary scholars have likewise inherited some of the procedures of biblical exegesis, for example the decoding of allegories
Exegesis
*person who practices is an exegete
a short tale used as an example to illustrate a moral point, usually in a sermon or other didactic work. The form was cultivated in the late Middle Ages, for instance in Robert Mannying of Brunne’s Hanndlying Synne and in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale and Nun’s Priest Tale.
Exemplum
in European philosophy distinguished by its emphasis on lived human existence. Its impact was fully felt only in the mid-20th century in France and Germany. Martin heidegger and Karl Haspers, Jean-Paul Satre, Simone de Beauvoir, Alburt Camus, and Maurice Merleau- Ponty.
Existentialism
a general term for a mode of literary or visual art which in extreme reaction against realism or naturalism, presents a world violently distorted under the pressure of intense personal moods, ideas, and emotions; image and language thus express feeling and imagination rather than represent external reality. It’s an important factor in the painting, drama, poetry, and cinema of the German-speaking Europe between 1910-1924.
Expressionism
