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450
OLD ENGLISH ( 450-1066)
Few surviving texts with little in common
* Lenguage closer to modern german than modern english.
* Frequently reflect non-english influence . In this period there was a great poem in old English called Beowulf "The wanderer", whose author is anonymous -
1066
MIDDLE ENGLISH (1066-1500)
This period is characterized by his literary works are based mainly on religious escitos, since the main exponent was the church. The limitations of the literature were due to the high level of illiteracy in the town Also it was characterized by the minstrels and the poetry sung, great wealth of oral literature As exponents we have Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales), Cuckoo's song Mystery plays -
1500
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1500-1660)
Period influenced by great Greco-Roman thinkers like Aristotle and Oviedo, there was no great trauma due to cultural and social changes. It is characterized by works of human character and games of masks, is characterized by poetry and books for all audiences We have great exponents like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson among others -
NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD (ENLIGHTENMENT/ AGE OF REASON)
This period is characterized by the high degree of humanization that is given to man and proclaim the equality between them. Born in France with great exposesteeste as Moliere, Rosseau, Voltaire.
Writting should be well structured emotion should be controlle and emphasize qualities, reason in emphasized as the highest faculty. English exponents: John Lucke, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe etc. American Exponentes: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson etc -
ROMANTIC PERIOD (englad 1785-1830 America 1800-1860)
Born in Germany with Kant and Goethe as a reaction against the scientific rational of neoclassicism and the industrial revolution
Emphasized individaulity (intuition , imagination, idealism, natural opposed to society and social order). The common man is given greater importance.
English exponents: Robert burns, William Blake, Samuel Taylor among others
American exponents: Whasington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville. -
VICTORIAN PERIOD (England 1832-1901)
Named for the reign of Queen Victoria Britain's longest reigning monarch , period of stbility and prosperity for Britain.
Literature seen as a bridge between romanticism and modernism
Generally emphasized realistic purtrayals of common people, sometimes to promete social change.
Some writers are Charles Dickens, George Eliot, thomas Hordy , Lewis Carroll Etc -
REALISTIC PERIOD (América 1860-1914)
Reaction against romantic values (civil war), developed in France (Balzac, Flaubert, Zola)
Emphasized the commonplace and ordinary
Sought to depict life as it was, not idealized.
its exponents were: Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, william Dean Howells etc -
MODERN LITERATURE
Modernism is an artistic movement that developed during the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century.
It was the first Spanish-speaking artistic and literary movement born on our continent, its influence reached not only the writers and artists of these lands,
.REPRESENTATIVES AND WORKS:
Rubén Darío García Sarmiento. Feidor Dostoieysky. -
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
The first current or themes on which contemporary literature will focus refer to the alienation of man, the loneliness he feels, the anguish as a product of the social changes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In other words, the human being goes through a loss of identity and literature will accompany this process of search and reunion. Camilo jose cela, Miguel delibes,Pablo Neruda, Jose Saramago
