4. LITERATURE,
HISTORY AND
CULTURE
The relationship is reciprocal. Our
culture affects what we write and what we
write is used to interpret our history.
However, our history influences culture,
which creates a beautiful loop in which
these three things work together to define a
group of people, a nation, etc.
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8. • The Iliad and The Odyssey by
Homer
• Works and Days by Hesiod
• Theogony by Hesiod
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
9. • Gorgias
• Aesop
• Plato
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Greek writer and philosopher during this
period:
• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Euripides
11. • The Canterbury Tales
• Beowulf
• The Dark Ages and the Bards
• The Dream of the Holy Rood
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
12. • Geoffrey Chaucer
• Thomas Aquinas
• Martin Luther
• Caedmon
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Famous Author during this period:
13. • Elegy
• Religious Liturgy
• Narrative Romance
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Significant Literary Genres
14. It is considered to
be the division
between the Middle
age and Modern era.
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
15. • Romeo and Juliet
• When I was Fair and Young
• Utopia
• The faerie Queen
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
16. • William Shakespeare
• Sir Thomas More
• Queen Elizabeth I
• Edmund Spencer
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
Famous Author during this period:
17. LATER PERIOD OF
LITERATURE
The Enlightenment Period (1660
BCE – 1790)
The Romantic Period (1790 –
1830)
The Vitorian Period (1832 – 1901)
The Modern Period (1914 – 1945)
The Post Modern Period (1945
onward)
18. --Referred to as
The Age of Reason.
--Era of Logic
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)
19. • All for love
• The Rake of the Lock
• Rights of Man
• Elegy written in a Churchyard
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
20. • John Dryden
• Alexander Pope
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Gray
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)Famous Author during this period:
21. • Essay
• Melodrama
• Letters
• Fables
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)Popular Types of literature during this
period:
22. --Great Age for the
Novel
--Emphasize on
Emotion, Imagination
and Individualism.
The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
23. • I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud
• Kubla Khan
• Song of Innocence and of
Experience
• Mathilda
The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
24. • William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Blake
• Mary Shelley
The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
Famous Author during this period:
25. --The Reign of Queen
Victoria.
-- The literature of this
Era expressed the
fusion of pure romance
to gross realism.
The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
26. • The Pickwick Papers
• How do I love Thee
• Ulysses
The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
27. • Charles Dicken
• Elizabeth Browning
• Alfred Lord Tennison
The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
Famous Author during this period:
28. Characterized by a
self-conscious break
with traditional ways
of writing, in both
poetry and prose
fiction.
The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
29. • The Road Not Taken
• And Death Shall Have No
Dominion
• Insensibility
The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
30. • Robert Frost
• Dylan Thomas
• Wilfred Owen
The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
Famous Author during this period:
31. Characterized by
reliance on narrative
techniques such as
fragmentation, paradox,
and the unreliable
narrator
The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
32. • Infinite Jest
• The Love Song Of J. Alfred
Prufrock
• Waiting for Godot
The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:
33. • David Foster Wallace
• T.S Eliot
• Samuel Beckett
The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
Famous Author during this period:
35. a) The Classical Period
b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
1. It is the Golden Age of Literature and
Arts
36. a) The Modern Period
b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
2. It referred to as The Age of Reason and
also known as neoclassical period
37. a) The Renaissance
Period
b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
3. It is the Great Age for Novels and it
emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and
Individualism
38. a) The Renaissance
Period
b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
4. In what period does the First printing
press was invented?
39. a) The Classical Period
b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
5. Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period or
Old English Period.
Hinweis der Redaktion
Latin word
In late middle age
country of origin
was home to the great works of ancient Greece and Rome
a period of primordial peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity.
Old English Period
was home to the great works english people and the anglo-saxon
The Anglo-Saxons are a people who have inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century. They comprise people from Germanic tribes who migrated to the island from continental Europe, their descendants, and indigenous British groups who adopted some aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and language.
Geoffrey Chaucer – known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages
Thomas Aquinas – was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church
Martin Luther – was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk
Caedmon - is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals
Elegy- poems, lament for the dead
Religious Liturgy- ritual script or various form of public worship in churches.
Renaissance came from the french word which means Rebirth
refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.
Cultural movement
First printing press was invented
William shakespeare – the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
Sir Thomas More – was an English lawyer, social philosopher,
Queen Elizabeth I- Queen of England, called The Virgin Queen
Edmund Spencer – was an English poet
Also known as neoclassical period
refers to the time of the guiding intellectual movement,
Thinkers applied principle and science
John dryden – most influencial writer because he produced influential critical essay
Alexander pope – significant figure in poetry.
Thomas paine – author of thw two highly influential pamphlets of the american revolution
Thomas Gray – the best known in the english language.
was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe
Kubla khan or a vision in a dream
William wordsworth – was a major English Romantic poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher
William blake – was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Mary Shelley - as an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist,
Victorian age produced great poets
The victorian age also a remarkable for the excellence of its style
Literature of this age tends to come closer to daily life which reflects its real problems and interest.
Charles Dicken created some of the worlds best fictional characters and the greatest novelist during victorian period.
Elizabeth Browning – was one of the most prominent poets during Victorian period
Alfred Lord Tennison – one of the most british poet during vitorian period
desire to overturn traditional modes
Traditional verse pattern were rejected
Robert Frost - One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century
Dylan thomas - was a Welsh poet and write
Wilfred Owen - was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War.
Wildred Owen - was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War.
Postmodern works are seen as a response against dogmatic following of Enlightenment thinking and Modernist approaches to literature.
an emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity in writing (and in visual arts as well); an emphasis on HOW seeing (or reading or perception itself) takes place, rather than on WHAT is perceived. An example of this would be stream-of-consciousness writing.
David Foster Wallace – was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing.
Thomas Stearns Eliot - "one of the twentieth century's major poets
Samuel Beckett - was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet