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Major Literary Periods - Coggle Diagram
Major Literary Periods
British
Literary History
Medieval Period
500-1500
Renaissance
1500-1660
Elizabethan Age
1558-1603
Jacobean Age
1603-1625
Caroline Age
1625-1649
Commonwealth Period
1649-1660
Neoclassicism
1600-1790s
Age of Enlightenment
1715-1789
Restoration Period
1660-1666
Augustan Period
Age of Johnson
1750-1798
Romantic Period
1790s-1832
Early Romantic Period
1798-1837
Gothic Period
1150-1450
Victorian Period
1832-1901
Classical
1730-1820
Post-colonial
World Literature
Modernism
1914-1945
Post-modernism
1945-1990s
Contemporary Literature
1950-today
Literary Research
Literary Theory & Criticism
Theory before 'Theory'
Practical Criticism
Big Ideas
Feminist, Queer, Marxist Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Condemns Freud as the main source of patriarchal attitudes
Reclamation of works for feminism
Queer Criticism
A bit like feminist criticism but also includes gay men now
Identifies homosexual undertones in literature and brings them back out
Marxist Criticism
Relate work into the context of the author's social class/ social period of production
Relate subject matter to Marxist themes
Politicisation of literary work
Structuralism: Post-structuralism and deconstruction
Structuralism
Texts analysed in relation to a larger structure (underlying parallels etc)
Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction
Reading text to look at textual subconscious - meanings expressed different from face value
Postmodernism & Psychoanalytic Criticism
Postmodernist Criticism
Celebrates fragmentation and existential crisis
Deconstruct not just the text but also the reality it exists in
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Pays attention to unconscious motives and feelings of characters
Focuses on the repressed (sexual)
Cultural Studies & Post-Colonialism
New Historicism
Cultural Materialism
Others
Stylistics
Narratology
Ecocriticism