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Anglo xajon England, Religion, Church- Latin. Pagan and Christian Motif together, alliteration, Kenning.
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Feudalism, religion, liturgy, Christianity, church, black death, french and Latin,vernacular, romance, miracle and mistery plays, morality plays.
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Ranaissance- Humanism, reformation, Patronage, sonnet, revenge tragedies, golden age of drama, pastoral comedies.
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Wit, Jacobean period, commonwealt, civil war, Cromwell, nasques, netaphysical poetry, cavalier poets, revenge tragedy.
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Resytoration of Monarchy, scpeticism, freethinking, Deism, Neoclasism ( Rule, order, proportion), Augustan Literature, Age of sensitivity: Satire ode, comedy of manners, Birth Novel, truthful, realistic literature, churchyard school of poets.
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Emotion: Romantic Poems, Plain and simple language, Gothic Novel.
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upheaval and change, Industry, Industrial revolution, Victorian society, working class, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Natural Selection, realism, Naturalism, inequality, the woman question, Aestheticism.
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Breaks with traditional ways. experimentation through sense and emotion, The Great war, World war one, Literacy periods, sense of cohesion, genres, capitalism, poetry.
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stylistically and ideologically,literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference.
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Reality-based stories, strong characters, believable stories,
Well-defined, realistic, highly developed characters in realistic, sometimes harsh environments,ironic and reflects current political, social and personal issues, reflect a personal cynicism, disillusionment and frustration; Often presents two contradictory arguments: growing skepticism in the existence of God and lack of faith in traditional institutions