Literary movements
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- Created on: 20-04-19 10:32
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- Literary periods and movements
- victorian period - 1837 - 1901
- dickens, hardy
- realism about struggles of the poor
- comments on morality, not always happy endings
- Romanticism = 1798 - 1870
- realism and satire subsumed by imagination
- rejected stylised literature of Neo - classicism
- more accesible
- idyllic descriptions of mountains, nature and countryside
- in response to industrialisation
- often creates a sense of mysticism
- rejected stylised literature of Neo - classicism
- Wordsworth, William Blake, Hazlitt
- later.... Mary Shelley, Keats
- realism and satire subsumed by imagination
- enlightenment= 1650s - 1870s
- Time of advances in science and rationalism
- rejecting organised religion >> favoured a more personal way of worshipping
- study of God = subservient to study of humans
- English Renaissance = 1485 - 1700
- transition from dark ages (e.g. Black Death) to optimism of new times
- influenced by Greek and Roman texts >> they were "reborn"
- grammar, history, moral philosophy, rhetoric
- shakespeare and John dunn
- Medieval = 500 - 1500
- orally told narratives and tales transcribed
- saw arrival of printing press
- modernism - 1910 - 1941 - ww1 +ww2
- depressing >>alienation in a world of machines and capitalism, loneliness
- to heighten sense of writers emotions, often written in first person
- structured stories of victorians replaced by looser stream of consciousness
- sim to neo classicists, used irony and satire > often alluding to pals work
- Virginia Woolf, dh Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Fitzgerald
- depressing >>alienation in a world of machines and capitalism, loneliness
- Post - modernism - 1941 - Today
- reveal worlds absurdity through irony and
- experimental
- victorian period - 1837 - 1901
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