ENGLISH LITERATURE PERIODS/ERA'S/MOVEMETS
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- Created on: 28-04-16 23:14
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- 1700's
- 1800's
- 1900's
- Second Wave Feminism 1968- early 1980's
- Third Wave Feminism early 1990's-present day
- 1900's
- Second Wave Feminism 1968- early 1980's
- Third Wave Feminism early 1990's-present day
- Interesting the language used to oppress women, (post-structuralist) or "micro politics"
- Sex positive feminism
- Key figures:Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Betty Friedan
- "The personal is political."
- Reproductive rights of women, as well as work place rights and economic focus
- Greater emphasis on women of colour's rights (post-colonial feminism), alongside single mothers and divorced women
- Third Wave Feminism early 1990's-present day
- Freudian psycho-analysis method developed early 1 900's
- 'Oedipus complex' the sexual motivation behind every act, desire and creation
- Incorporated new ideals, such as Darwinism, class conflict,as well as Freudian and existentialist ideas
- Existentialism: the philosophical exploration of what it means to be alive, our identity, ect.
- Key figures:Albert Camus,Milan Kundera, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying,
- Freudian psycho-analysis method developed early 1 900's
- 'Oedipus complex' the sexual motivation behind every act, desire and creation
- Incorporated new ideals, such as Darwinism, class conflict,as well as Freudian and existentialist ideas
- Existentialism: the philosophical exploration of what it means to be alive, our identity, ect.
- Key figures:Albert Camus,Milan Kundera, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying,
- Existentialism: the philosophical exploration of what it means to be alive, our identity, ect.
- Existentialism: the philosophical exploration of what it means to be alive, our identity, ect.
- 2000'S
- WWI (1914) and WWII (1939)
- Post-modernism
- Scepticism towards grand narratives, generally secular ideals
- A response to the dogma of Enlightenmentthinkingand modernist approaches to literature
- Generally fond of unreliable narrators and intertextuality
- Include elements of black humour, irony, fragmentation,parody of classic fiction and passive voice
- Key figures: Margret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joseph Heller
- A response to the dogma of Enlightenmentthinkingand modernist approaches to literature
- Scepticism towards grand narratives, generally secular ideals
- WWI (1914) and WWII (1939)
- Expressionism, early 1900's
- Acmeist poetry movement1910's
- Focused on the conciseness and clarity of poems.Placed Alexander Pope and Rudyard Kipling among their predecessors
- Edwardian era - 1901-1914
- "The Party King"
- Second Wave Feminism 1968- early 1980's
- Interesting the language used to oppress women, (post-structuralist) or "micro politics"
- Sex positive feminism
- 1900's
- Key figures:Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Betty Friedan
- "The personal is political."
- Reproductive rights of women, as well as work place rights and economic focus
- Greater emphasis on women of colour's rights (post-colonial feminism), alongside single mothers and divorced women
- Third Wave Feminism early 1990's-present day
- 2000'S
- WWI (1914) and WWII (1939)
- Post-modernism
- Scepticism towards grand narratives, generally secular ideals
- A response to the dogma of Enlightenmentthinkingand modernist approaches to literature
- Generally fond of unreliable narrators and intertextuality
- Include elements of black humour, irony, fragmentation,parody of classic fiction and passive voice
- Key figures: Margret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joseph Heller
- A response to the dogma of Enlightenmentthinkingand modernist approaches to literature
- Scepticism towards grand narratives, generally secular ideals
- WWI (1914) and WWII (1939)
- Expressionism, early 1900's
- Acmeist poetry movement1910's
- Focused on the conciseness and clarity of poems.Placed Alexander Pope and Rudyard Kipling among their predecessors
- Edwardian era - 1901-1914
- "The Party King"
- Second Wave Feminism 1968- early 1980's
- First Wave Feminism 1848-1920
- Focused on gaining the vote for women
- Black female author Frances E.W Walker 1951 Short Stories
- Gain property and equal trade rights usually denied to women
- Key figures: Kate Chopin, Henrik Ibsen's (A Dolls House),Virginia Woolf,
- "A white woman has only one handicap to overcome, a great one, her sex; a coloured woman faces two; her sex and her race." - Mary Church Terrell
- Modernism late 1800's, early 1900's
- Interesting the absurd,and changing political, economic and technological factors on our identities
- Key figures: Ezra Pound, Franz Kafka, F. Scott Fitzgerald,W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, e. e. summings, T.S Eliot, D.H Lawrence
- Destroyed the idea that artists were all part of the 'bourgeois'
- Interesting the absurd,and changing political, economic and technological factors on our identities
- Victorian Era 1837-1901
- Key figures:Oscar Wilde, Charlotte, Anna and Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rosetti,CharlesDickens, William Thackeray
- Features included class conflict,the 'fallen woman', social etiquette and an increased numberunconventionalfemales
- Peace and prosperity.
- Rise of the middle class, nuclear family, strict morality
- Industrial revolution
- Marxism
- Influenced Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina: the symbolism of the train
- Influenced Leo Tolstoy
- Class conflict in England
- Greater means of communication
- Trains, railways, ships, telegraphs, telephones,
- Anna Karenina: the symbolism of the train
- Trains, railways, ships, telegraphs, telephones,
- Huge population increase
- Marxism
- 1900's
- Enlightenment period
- Romantic period
- Rebuttal to the 'heartless' attitudes in the sciences and the brutality of the industrial revolution
- Sought to reintroduce religion,nature, and love as key forces of life
- Key figures: Lord Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth, Blake, Walter Scott
- Poetry: She Walks In Beauty,Love's Philosophy, Music,
- Apprehension, horror, terror, awe shown through gothic themesor utopian themes
- Victorian Era 1837-1901
- Key figures:Oscar Wilde, Charlotte, Anna and Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rosetti,CharlesDickens, William Thackeray
- Features included class conflict,the 'fallen woman', social etiquette and an increased numberunconventionalfemales
- Peace and prosperity.
- Rise of the middle class, nuclear family, strict morality
- Rebuttal to the 'heartless' attitudes in the sciences and the brutality of the industrial revolution
- Industrial revolution
- Marxism
- Influenced Leo Tolstoy
- Influenced Leo Tolstoy
- Class conflict in England
- Greater means of communication
- Trains, railways, ships, telegraphs, telephones,
- Trains, railways, ships, telegraphs, telephones,
- Huge population increase
- Marxism
- 1800's
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