AP Lit - Literary Time Periods - Mayorga S1 Final

classic

1200 BCE - 500 AD

medieval

500 AD - 1500 AD

medieval

typically revolved around religion & culture

medieval

aftermath of Roman Empire, Gutenberg printing press

medieval

Petrarch, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Canterbury Tales

medieval

people began writing under their own names towards the end of this period

renaissance

1500 AD -1670 AD

renaissance

philosophy, literature, art

renaissance

focused on mankind: humanist philosophy, wit, beauty, truth, culture, arts and sciences

renaissance

Shakespeare, Milton (Paradise Lost), Spenser (The Faerie Queen)

enlightenment

1700 AD - 1800 AD

enlightenment

scientific, political, philosophical, rational, individualism

enlightenment

Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack), Diderot (Encyclopedie), Voltaire (Candide), Rousseau (Émile)

romantic

1798 AD - 1870 AD

romantic

nature, emotions, spirituality, individuality

romantic

Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Percy Shelley, Lord Byron (Don Juan), Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads)

victorian/realism

1820 AD - 1920 AD

victorian/realism

real life, harsh, realistic; common (low/middle class) people, places, events, themes

victorian/realism

Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn), Brontë sisters (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights), Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment), Lord Tennyson, Browning

modernism

early 1900s - 1950s

modernism

death-related themes because of WWI, existentialism

modernism

less formulaic writing, "stream of consciousness"

modernism

Dickinson, Whitman, T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land, The Hollow Men), Sartre (Nausea), Kafka (Metamorphosis), Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway), Camus (The Stanger), Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

postmodernism

early 1960s - present

postmodernism

metafiction, intertextuality, ambiguity, fragmentation, subjectivity, unreliable narration, human rights

postmodernism

Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five), Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow), Ginsberg (Howl), Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)

classic

gods, heroes, politics, philosophy

classic

epics of Ancient Rome and Greece & Trojan War

classic

Homer (Iliad, Odyssey), Virgil (Aeneid), Aesop's Fables, Sappho (Ode to Aphrodite)

homeric

1200 BCE - 800 BCE (epics)

classic

800 BCE - 200 BCE (Greek & Roman periods)

patristic

70 CE - 455 CE (St. Jerome's Latin Bible, religious era)