English Literature
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- English Literature
- Renaissance 1485-1603
- Context/ Typicalities
- Upbeat/ Romantic
- Prevelence of the Supernatural
- Traditional forms- Odes/ Sonnets/ Lyrics
- Wit/ Intelligence/ Argumentative
- Intellectual and Geographical exploration
- Wit/ Intelligence/ Argumentative
- Spanish Armada
- Courtly love
- Pastoral imagery
- Ornate description
- Woman's cruelty
- Placed on pedestal
- Ornate description
- Stock characters
- Main characters= rich/ Comedic characters= poor- love is an upper class privaledge
- Main characters= rich/ Comedic characters= poor- love is an upper class privaledge
- Mediterranean setting- excuses unkempt behaviour
- Humanistic- move away from purely religious art
- Tragedy due to tragic flaw in protagonist
- Poetry
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love- Marlow
- Ballad
- Structured, neat continuity through poem
- Pastoral imagery
- Woman unobtainable
- Structured, neat continuity through poem
- Shepherd and Nymph
- Pastoral imagery
- Fairy-tale atmosphere
- Woman unobtainable
- 'Come live with me and be my Love'
- Refrain
- Continued courtly romantic declaration
- Built anticipation of unanswered question
- Structured, neat continuity through poem
- Refrain
- Ballad
- Sonnet 130- Shakespeare
- 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'
- Subversion of typical romance
- Honest
- Sonnet form
- Natural imagery
- Possessive pronoun
- Subversion of typical romance
- 'If snow be white, black wires grow on her head'
- Lack of innocence/ virginity- disrespectful!
- 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love- Marlow
- Drama
- Romeo and Juliet
- 'Believe me, love, it was the nightingale'
- Pastoral imagery
- Caesuras- fragmented structure- feeling of breathless excitement
- 'Believe me, love, it was the nightingale'
- Taming of the Shrew
- Verse- fast paced battle of wits
- 'I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again'
- Interrupts pace and rhythm
- 'I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again'
- Ideal renaissance woman
- 'Mould'
- Katherina dehumanized
- 'Wild-cat'
- Extended metaophre of buzzard training
- Verse- fast paced battle of wits
- Romeo and Juliet
- Context/ Typicalities
- Revenge Tragedy 1580s-1640s
- Context
- Upper class
- Foreign setting
- Corrupt religion
- Corrupt society
- Tragic flaw in protagonist
- Dark atmosphere
- Duchess of Malfi- Webster
- 'There is a saucy and ambitious devil is dancing in this circle'
- Duchess compared to devil due to masculine attitude
- Religious fear of re-marrying
- Circle- eternity, contrast to reality
- Using old ring- uncomfortable- elicit relationship
- Twisted and elicit love
- Context
- Upper class
- Foreign setting
- Corrupt religion
- Corrupt society
- Tragic flaw in protagonist
- Dark atmosphere
- Context
- Twisted and elicit love
- Foreshadowing- dark undertones
- Not given name, distance/ authority
- Incest/ Unrequited love
- 'There is a saucy and ambitious devil is dancing in this circle'
- Tis Pity she's a Whore
- Incestuous
- 'Doomed my death'
- Alliteration of aggressive consonant
- Forshadowing
- Hyperbolic
- 'Doomed my death'
- Incestuous
- The Changeling
- Unrequited love
- 'Our eyes are sentinels to our judgements'
- Rational approach
- 'I love you dearly'
- Emphasized through break in rhythm of verse- traditionally romantic form
- Contrast
- 'Our eyes are sentinels to our judgements'
- Rational approach
- 'Our eyes are sentinels to our judgements'
- Context
- Restoration Comedy 1603-1667
- Context
- Reaction to end of 18 years of puritanical society
- Sexual explicitness
- Rakish aristocratic ethos
- Socially diverse audience
- Fashion of town compared to country
- Satirical slant
- Game of love
- First appearance of woman actors
- The Way of the World- Congreve
- 'Wife,spouse,my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweetheart and the rest of that can't which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar'
- Refuses to be classed as a possession
- Rejection of traditional courty love
- Satirical slant
- Strong women!
- First appearance of woman actors
- Listing, exaggerated
- Woman dominates dialogue
- 'Wife,spouse,my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweetheart and the rest of that can't which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar'
- Context
- Metaphysical Poetry 1603-1667
- Context
- Reference to classical and european literature
- Shortness of life
- Transcience of beauty
- Hybrid structures/ forms
- Energy and Vitality
- Sounds intelligent- elaborate and extended metaphors/ conceit
- The Anniversary- Dunne
- Conceit of 'royal imagery- Aristocratic love
- Sounds intelligent- elaborate and extended metaphors/ conceit
- Conceit of 'royal imagery- Aristocratic love
- Eloisa to Abelard- Pope
- Seperation
- Structured rhyme and rhythm reflect constraint and refinement of monestary
- 'Statues learned to weep'
- Personnification- her becoming stone
- To His Coy Mistress
- 'Thou by the Indian Ganges' side'
- Geographic exploration
- Typical romantic, natural exotic beauty
- Geographic exploration
- 'Thou by the Indian Ganges' side'
- The Sun Rising- Donne
- Personnification of Sun
- Ptolemaic Universe theory- own arrangance
- Prevelnce and omnipotence of nature
- Personnification of Sun
- Context
- Romantic Poetry 1780-1830
- Context
- Hyperbolic, over-dramatic
- Metaphore, dramatic
- Turned against popular styles of the past
- Subverted expectation
- Politics and religion
- Social fueds, battle of the sexes, family riffs
- Hyperbolic, over-dramatic
- Don Juan- Byron
- Eponymous character in title reflects traditional tragic hero
- Subverted expectation
- Traditional form
- Broken by 'How beautiful she look'd!'
- Caesura- excited, breathless
- Broken by 'How beautiful she look'd!'
- 'The precipice she stood on was immence'
- Metaphore, dramatic
- Power of nature
- Illicit love
- Eponymous character in title reflects traditional tragic hero
- Context
- 18th Century Novel
- Realism
- Extensive, detailed description
- Complexity of plot and characters
- Increase in public reading
- Industrial revolution
- Middle class hungry for knowledge
- Patriotism
- Rationalism
- Romanticism- rebellion against prudish society under guise of romanticism
- Tom Jones-Fielding
- Contrast between Mrs Water's artillary of love and Tom's obliviousnessness
- 'Bubbling of some bottled ale'
- jarring alliterative onomatopoeia
- 'So soft, so sweet, so tender'
- Flowing sibilance and list
- 'Fruits of her victory'
- 'Bubbling of some bottled ale'
- Contrast between Mrs Water's artillary of love and Tom's obliviousnessness
- Regency Period 1790-1830
- Context
- Contrast between seriously religious nature of George III to the more carefree and spendthrift nature of the regent
- Elegance, refinement, manners , class
- Pride and Prejudice- Austen
- 'In vain I have struggled'
- Importance of social class
- Self-importance
- Lizzie rejects this- socially shocking - relationship equal
- Pragmatic proposal of Mr Collins
- 'Satate my reasons for amrrying'
- 'In vain I have struggled'
- Context
- Victorian 1833-1903
- Context
- Intraindustrial revolution
- Modern twist on Shakespeare/ fairytales
- Conservative views on morality and roles of women
- Prudish relucatnce to express love or passion- subtle undercurrents
- Women writers!
- Marxism- extremes of class- oppression of proletariat
- Poetry
- How do I love thee?- Browing
- Anaphra of 'I love thee'
- Breathless excitement, repeated, persistent- builds pace
- 'How dio I love thee?'
- Caesura/ rhetorical opening- sounds casual
- Realism
- Caesura/ rhetorical opening- sounds casual
- Anaphra of 'I love thee'
- How do I love thee?- Browing
- Prose
- Jane Eyre- Bronte
- Pathetic Fallacy- dark/cold
- Metaphore of house- big/ empty/ spooky
- 'Wild roses'- juxtaposition of traditional romantic imagery against harsh background
- Jane Eyre- Bronte
- Drama
- Importance of Being Earnest- Wilde
- Mockery of formalities of upper class
- Marxism
- 'Admirable oppertunity'
- Mockery of formalities of upper class
- Marxism
- Mockery of formalities of upper class
- 'You know what I've got to say to you'
- Awkward, clumsy dialogue
- Mockery of formalities of upper class
- Doll's House- Ibsen
- Repetition of animal imagery- diminished woman
- Compared to bird trapped in cage
- Doll's House- toy- not taken seriously
- Repetition of animal imagery- diminished woman
- Importance of Being Earnest- Wilde
- Context
- Modern 1920-1960
- Context
- 'Make it New!'- Ezra Pound
- Break away from past tradition
- Reaction to WW1-
- Industrial-isation
- Urbanisation
- emotional enlightenment rejected
- Rational-isation
- Individual interpretation
- Self concious
- Rejection of realism
- Subversion and adoptation of more complex forms and structures
- Stream of conciousness
- Ambiguous
- Subversion and adoptation of more complex forms and structures
- Topical/ controversy
- Intertextuality
- 'Make it New!'- Ezra Pound
- Prose
- Oranges are not the only fruit- Winterson
- Homoexual love
- Oranges extended metophore
- Skewed image of perfection in commonality
- Contrast to 'rough brown pebble'
- Skewed image of perfection in commonality
- Cynisism towards religion- uninterested in view of priest
- 'Seven ripe oranges had just fell onto the windowsill'
- Seven deadly sins- doesn't pay attention to this stigma
- 'Seven ripe oranges had just fell onto the windowsill'
- Oranges are not the only fruit- Winterson
- Poetry
- A Marriage- Blumenthal
- Ceasura/ enjambement used to elongate lines and slow pace- emphasize exhaustion
- Alliteration ('Relief of respite') and enjambment speeds up pace- excitement and vitality
- Experimentation of forms to directly express feeling
- my sweet old etcetera- e. e. cummings
- Repeated non-committal blank of 'etcetera'
- Interpretation of reader
- Disconnected, cynical edge to glory of war
- Romance not mentioned until last line- rationalism and distance
- Repeated non-committal blank of 'etcetera'
- my sweet old etcetera- e. e. cummings
- my sweet old etcetera- e. e. cummings
- Repeated non-committal blank of 'etcetera'
- Interpretation of reader
- Disconnected, cynical edge to glory of war
- Romance not mentioned until last line- rationalism and distance
- Repeated non-committal blank of 'etcetera'
- Pygmalian's Bride- Carol Ann Duffy
- 'Stone-deaf shells'
- Conceit of stone- confined in her own head
- Relative security of objectfing self
- Lack of individual identity/ anonymity
- Conceit of stone- confined in her own head
- Abusive relationship
- Subversion of Greek mythology
- 'Stone-deaf shells'
- A Marriage- Blumenthal
- Drama
- The Glass Menagerie- Williams
- 'This is a memory play'
- Direct address- break 4th wall
- Distorted reality through morphed structure
- Direct address- break 4th wall
- 'Stumble-John'
- Her over-involvement compared to his
- Broken glass animal in her pocket represents fragmented realism
- Her over-involvement compared to his
- 'This is a memory play'
- The Glass Menagerie- Williams
- Context
- Renaissance 1485-1603
- Subversion of typical romance
- Honest
- Sonnet form
- Natural imagery
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