Literary Periods

By emcaze
  • 500 BCE

    Ancient or Classical

    -5th century B.C. to the 5th century A.C.
    -First literary records dated around the 4th century B.C.
    *Myths, poems, and stories
    -Literary works dealt with religious themes
    -It was common to focus on gods -The Iliad and and The Odyssey
    -Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho.
  • 313

    Medieval

    -Begins around the middle of the 5th century
    -concludes in the fifteenth century. -The High Middle Ages (V-XII)
    -The late Middle Ages (XII-XV) -Religious spirit and the theocentric vision predominate
    -French chivalric romances
    *Chrétien de Troyes
    French fables
    Marie de France and Jean de Meun, spread in popularity.
    Writers include Italian and French authors like Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, and Christine de Pisan.
  • 1300

    Reinassance and Baroque

    -Rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art.
    -Renaissance began in Italy in the 1300s.
    -Include the doctrine of humanism
    -Find meaning and value in earthly life Baroque
    -Use of dramatic elements in all art forms
    -Allegories with multiple layers of meaning -William Shakespeare
    -Miguel Angel
    -Sidney, Sir Philip

  • Neoclassicism

    -classical literature influenced and increased logic and superstition.
    -The fable was also developed
    -Marks transition toward the upcoming Romanticism
    -Dr. Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Edward Gibbon
    -Important books: The decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    -The encyclopedia (L'Encyclopédie)

  • Romanticism

    • artistic, cultural and literary movement -took place in the 18th century
    • Exalts the figure of the individual as the center of creation -t casts aside the traditions of the previous era and seeks to break with classical and academic norms. -Some important writers were Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley

  • XX and XXI Century

    -21st Century-Contemporary Literature
    -Genre Fiction (Popular fiction: Science fiction, fantasy, crime, noir, horror etc) begin to get more attention
    -Present new political and social ideas
    -Uses questions to be answered
    -Testimonies (war, dictatorships, hunger, poverty...)
    Genre Fiction:Game of Thrones

  • Realism and Naturalism

    -Realism-Second half of the 19th century.

    -Born from the excesses of Romanticism.
    -opposes romanticism, rejecting sentimentality and the trascendental
    -The author analyzes, reproduces and denounces the ills that afflict its society, -Naturalism-Second half of the 19th century.

    -It’s known, not as an opposition to Realism, but as its evolution.
    -the existence of the human being is determined by natural forces that humans cannot control.

  • Modernism

    -major historical, scientific, and social events once again created a change in literature.
    -Realism
    -tries to break all the previous techniques and ideas of literature
    -his occurs because the events of World War I, as well as the second industrial revolution, left all the artists in a crisis.
    Authors:
    -Virginia Woolf (Most famous work: A Room of One's Own)
    -James Joyce (Most famous work: Ulysses )