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