PPT-Literary Periods in British Literature

The following is an overview of the major periods in British literature we will be studying Please take notes on the timeline provided to you Your timeline will serve as a frame of reference as we move forward in the course. FORMALIST. By:. Haley A.. Erica C.. Elizabeth G.. DEFINITION:. A way of analyzing literature in which no outside information about history, politics, or society, is used, and no prior knowledge about the author’s life or time period is referenced. Strictly the text, and literary elements used within it. . 2013-2014. Literary Periods. C. 450 TODAY. Timeline of Literary periods (British Literature). MEDIEVAL. RENAISSANCE. NEOCLASSICAL. ROMANTIC. VICTORIAN. EDWARDIAN. MODERN. POSTMODERN. 450-1500. Dr. Maier. Aristotle: . Poetics. First significant work of literary criticism . Authored in 335 B.C. . Pity and Fear (Eleos and Phobos) . Catharsis. Mimesis. A Multiplicity of Approaches. Literary critics are almost never unified in their interpretation of a novel or any literary work. Why do you suppose this is the case? What factors make it virtually impossible for critics to come to a consensus regarding the meaning of a literary work? . Life and Works . February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968. John Steinbeck. Born in Salinas, California.. He used this setting for many of his stories. . One of the best known and most widely read American writers of the 20. By David Johnson. Chapter 5 . The Politics of English : Conflict, Competition, Co-existence. Introduction. In Chapter 4, the concept of the English language as a global industry introduced English-language publications as significant in the spread of English. . Middle English 1066-1500. transitional period between Anglo-Saxon and modern . English. cultural . upheaval that followed the Norman Conquest of England, in . 1066. secular literature:. ballads,. chivalric romance. (. B. 00k 2). English Literary Canons. Chapter . 5. Dr. . Tasneem. Introduction. :. We have seen how English language has spread across the world through such factors as . migration. and the . educational policies of different countries. Old English/Anglo-Saxon (449-1066). Content. :. -strong belief in fate. -juxtaposition of church and pagan worlds. -admiration of heroic warriors who prevail in battle. -express . religious faith and give moral instruction through . in Mark Twain’s . “Huckleberry Finn”. Romanticism in Huck Finn. "Romanticism," as a term, derives from "romance," which from the Medieval Period (1200-1500) and on simply meant a story (e.g. all the chivalric, King Arthur legends) that was adventurist and improbable . Old English/Anglo-Saxon (449-1066). Content. :. -strong belief in fate. -juxtaposition of church and pagan worlds. -admiration of heroic warriors who prevail in battle. -express . religious faith and give moral instruction through . Psychoanalytic Criticism . Psychoanalytic.  criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche.. The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Australian Literature. Discussions of the current state of Australian literature are frequently alarmist and usually focus on the prestige area of literary fiction – ‘serious’ or ‘good’ novels for adults (not genre fiction: crime, romance, science-fiction and so on). In his essay ‘The Decline of the Literary Paradigm in Australian Publishing’ . Economics(arranged through Economics)Microeconomics(MT)Macroeconomics(HT)Quantitative Economics (similar to Econ 255, TTBehavioural and Experimental Economics (MT, HT)Development of the World Economy Volume 4, Issue 8, August 2016, PP 53 - 58 ISSN 2347 - 3126 (Print) & ISSN 2347 - 3134 (Online) http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2347 - 3134.040 8007 www.arcjournals.org