21st Century Literature Q2 Week 7 (European Literature)
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
An Essay of Understanding
Alexander Pope
Divine Comedy
Alighieri Dante
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon tradition
Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies
Lord Byron
Don Juan
Pensees
Blaise Pascal
Jack London
Call of the Wild
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Encyclopedia
Denis Diderot
Henrik Ibsen
Enemy of the People
Ezra Pound
Exultations
Medieval Literature
Fall of the Roman Empire marked the beginning of the Medieval or Middle Ages. Also known as the Dark Ages due to the prevailing conditions during this period, barbarian invasion and Muslim conquest marked this era. Wars, famine, plagues, and decline in culture and learning; During the millennium, Christianity and Islam rose to become political, social, and cultural institutions. Two notable names from the religious aspects were St. Augustine (whose The Confessions and City of God remain spiritual pillars to this day) Dante Alighieri (whose three-part Devine Comedy envisions a Christian soul's journey in the afterlife). In addition, Geoffrey Chaucer earned the title "Father of English Literature with his crowning achievements, the Canterbury Tales.
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Complete Essays
Francis Bacon
Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chauncer
King Arthur
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Social Contact Theory
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Iphigenie
Jean Racine
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Absalom
John Dryden
Paradise Lost
John Milton
A tale of The tub
Jonathan Swift
Rudyard Kipling
Jungle Book
William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
Gustave Fclaubert
Madame Bovary
George Eliot
Middlemarch
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Norse Mythology
Norse Tradition
John Keats
Ode to Psyche
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Discourse on Methods
Rene Descartes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Poems of Scottish Dialect
Robert Burns
Life is a Dream
Pedro Calderon
Desiderius Erasmus
initiated the Humanism Movement
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Jonson
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
City of God
St Augustine of Hippo
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
Guy de Maupassant
The Diamond Necklace
Henry James
The Golden Bowl
Martin Luther
initiated the Reformation in Europe
Johannes Guternberg
invented the movable type printing press
D.H Lawrence
The Trespasser
18th Century Literature
marked by reason (pursuit of order, symmetry, decorum, and scientific knowledge) and passion (philanthropy, exaltation of personal relationships, religious fervor, and the cut of sentiment, or sensibility). In literature the rational impulse fostered satire, argument, wit, plain, prose. The other inspired the psychological novel and the poetry of the sublime. Novel and satire were born in this period
19th Century Literature
most vital and interesting periods of all; Romanticism, Symbolism, Realism These literary movements are reflected in the current of modern literature, and many social and economic characteristics of the 20th century were determined in the 19th
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Gertrude Stein
Three Lives
History of British People
Venerable Bede
Candide
Voltaire
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
H. G Wells
War of the Worlds
The Tragedies
William Shakespeare
L,. Frank Baum
Wizard of Oz
Ancient Literature
cover the five ancient civilizations of Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Greece, and Rome including the culture of the Israelites in Palestine - each came into contact with one or more of the others not necessarily in order but essentially by the influence each exerted over the others; the use of clay tablets, papyrus paper scrolls paved the way for the writing of the Holy Scriptures which is very much influential in European literature. Likewise songs, poems, fables, anecdotes, and parables were all invented during this period
Christopher Columbus
discovered the New World (the Americans)
Renaissance Literature
given to the historical period in Europe that succeeded the Middle Ages. This period marked the reawakening of a new spirit of intellectual and artistic inquiry, which was the dominant feature of this political, religious, and philosophical phenomenon, was essentially a revival of the spirit of ancient Greece and Rome; mean a new interest in and analysis of the great classical writers; Scholars searched for and translated lost ancient texts, whose dissemination was much helped by developments in printing in Europe from about 1450. Written short stories, novella and tales were born in this period
European Literature
includes literature in many languages: among the most important of the modern written works are those in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Czech and Russian and works by the Scandinavians and Irish; Important classical and medieval traditions are those in Ancient Greek, Latin, Old Norse, Medieval French and the Italian Tuscan dialect of the renaissance
Europe
one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia; bounded to the north by the Artic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, to the southeast by the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean
Contemporary Times
period after World War II is referred as the Postmodern period. Technology advancing ever so rapidly as each decade progressed In literature, post modernism is characterized by the reinventing or reframing of past works; and the displaying of sympathy towards minorities, colonized people, and the feminist movement. Notable European writers in the Postmodern period included Italy's Cavino and England's Fowles
17th Century
period of unceasing disturbance and violent storms, no less in literature than in politics and society. The great question of the century, which confronted serious writers from John Donne to John Dryden was Michel de Montaigne's What do I now? Includes the ascertainment of the grounds and relations of knowledge, faith, reason, and authority in religion, metaphysics, ethics, politics, economics, and natural science. Hence, this period is also known as Age of Reason
Holy Bible
sacred scriptures of Jews
Aeneid
the Epic of Rome
The Book of the Death
the compilation of Egyptian pantheon, rituals
Metamorphoses
the compilation of Roman mythology and culture
Iliad and Odyssey
the epics of Greece
European literature/ Wester literature
the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, as several geographically or historically related languages; like Indo-European languages, are parts of a common heritage belonging to a race of proud nations which boast the likes of Homer who write Iliad and Odyssey, Virgin who wrote the Aeneid, Dante who wrote Divine Comedy, Chaucer who wrote Canterbury Tales; These, and other literary masterpieces from part of what we call as Western Canon
The epic of Gilgamesh
the world's oldest epic
20th Century
unconscious and the irrational was reflected in their work and that of others of about this time; increasing sense of crisis and urgency, doubts as to the 19th century's faith in the psychological stability of the individual personality and a deep questioning of all philosophical or religious solutions to human problems In the 1930s these qualities of 20th century thought were not abandoned but rather were expanded into political context, as writer divided into those supporting political commitment in their writing and those reacting conservatively against such a domination of art by politics
The Code of Hammurabi
world's first codified law
Christopher Marlowe
wrote Doctor Faustus