# VERY_IMPORTANT_POST
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# MAIN_CHARACTERISTICS_OF_LITERARY_PERIODS
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Middle Ages:
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The literary writings are in Old
English. The Norman Conquest of England in
1066 is the beginning of 200 years of the
French domination in English
letters.Chaucer's "The General Prologue to
The Canterbury Tales" has long been
recognized as one of the greatest
masterpieces of English literature, certainly
the finest and most influential work of
fiction from the Middle Ages. For most
literary historians, English literature begins
well before Chaucer's greatest poem, but
this particular work marks the start of the
tradition which is still readily accessible in
the original language to the diligent reader,
even though Chaucer's Middle English
requires the constant help of a glossary.
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Renaissance:
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A cultural movement which
began in Italy during the 15th century and
spread around Europe during the 17th
century. Education was not offered for girls,
except for daughters of the nobility and
Puritans, and even then subjects were
focused on chastity and housewifery.The
period is characterized by the influence of
the classics (in literature, language, and
philosophy), as well as an optimistic
forward-thinking approach to the potential
of humans (known as Renaissance
humanism. The spread of Protestantism was
influential in literature. The English poet
and playwright, William Shakespeare, who
flourished during this period, is often called
England's national poet and the "Bard of
Avon".
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Neoclassical Period : ~~~~~~~~~~~
Neoclassical Literature
was written in a period where social order
was undergoing tremendous changes. In the
so called Enlightenmemt Period, people
believed that natural passions aren't
necessarily good; natural passions must be
subordinated to social needs and be strictly
controlled. Authors believed that reason was
the primary basis of authority. They believed
that social needs are more important than
individual needs and that man could find
meaning in order - religious, social, the
order of nature, government and literary
forms. Neo-Classical Style was a style in
art, architecture, and the decorative arts
that flourished in Europe and North America
from about 1750 to the early 1800s, marked
by the emulation of Graeco-Roman forms.
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Romantic Period :
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While literature from the
Classical period was based on reason, order
and rules, literature and art from the
Romantic period was based on emotion,
adventure and imagination. The name
"romantic" itself comes from the term
"romance" which is a genre of prose or
poetic heroic narrative originating in
medieval literature. Romanticism reached
beyond the rational and Classicist ideal
models to elevate medievalism and
elements of art and narrative perceived to
be authentically medieval. Gothic fiction is a
genre that combines elements of both
romance and terror. Prominent features of
this genre are: terror, the supernatural ,
Gothic architecture, castles, doubles, death
and secrets.
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Modern Period :
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The early modern period is a
term initially used by historians to refer
mainly to the period roughly from 1500 to
1750 in Western Europe. Theatrical power
flourishes this period.
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Post-Modern Period:
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The term Postmodern
literature is used to describe certain
tendencies in post-World War II literature.
Although it is a continuation of modernist
period (paradoxes and fragmentation),
modernist literature seeks meaning in a
chaotic world whereas postmodernist
literature is not only avoiding the possibility items of the wedding to wear for arab women can use
of meaning, at the same time it is parodying
it.
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450-1066: Old English (or Anglo Saxon)
Chaucer, drama ,romance and verse
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1066-1500: Middle English Period
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1500-1660: The Renaissance ==>A period
of reibirth...William Shakespeare,
Christopher Marlowe, John Donne
1558-1603: Elizabethan Age
1603-1625: Jacobean Age
1625-1649: Caroline Age
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1649-1660: Commonwealth Period
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1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period==> The
Regency Period in England...Alexander Pope,
Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Horace
Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edward Young
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1660-1700: The Restoration
1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of
Pope)
1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age og
Johnson)
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1785-1830: The Romantic Period (includes
the Gothic Period) ==>Jane Austen, Mary
Shelley, William Blake, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats,
Ann Radcliffe
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1832-1901: The Victorian Period The Great
Age of the English Novel: realistic, thickly
plotted and long.Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde,
Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Browning
1901-1914: The Edwardian Period Virginia
Woolf, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence
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1910-1936: The Georgian Period
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1914-1945: The Modern Period
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1945-Present: Postmodern Period Ted
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Hughes, Samuel Beckett, John Osborne