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Historic English Literature summary
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A summary of important periods in English historic literature. Reference is made to important works for that period and/or writers.
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1.
What was the Renaissance and what does it mean?
Answer: 1500-1600. It was a period of renewed interest in classical literature and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. People saw themselves at individual beings. It means rebirth (of old literature)
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What are characteristics of the 1800 novel?
Answer: Realism. Personal development, everyday life, middle classes, focus on culture.
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What is a framework narrative?
Answer: A story within a story.
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What is a Fabliau?
Answer: A short, funny, often bawdy tale in low style.
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What are the characteristics of modernism?
Answer: - Fragmentation of experience of time - Focus on senses - Experimental literature - Subjectivity -> different truths - Stream of consciousness
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What are themes of modernism?
Answer: - Urban themes - Industry & technology - Sexual relations - Alienation - Chaos - Disenchantment with EU culture
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What is an epistolary?
Answer: Using different forms (such as letters) to write a story.
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Who were \"Angry young men\"?
Answer: Working class writers who were critical of modernist writing.
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What is an allegory?
Answer: An extended metaphor, with underlying political or religious significance.
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What are characteristics of Gothic literature?
Answer: - Desolate / remote settings - Macabre, mysterious, violent events - Haunted physical and mental spaces - Madness - Feverish introspection - Dark/light in physical and moral terms - Past haunting the present
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