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WGU Lit History
WGU Literature history -- periods and their elements
Period | Element or movement |
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Classical | Epic poem |
Classical | pastoral verse |
Classical | Greek mythology characters and themes |
Classical | unities |
Classical | Orchestra, skene, and altar |
Classical | tragedy and satire combination performed |
Classical | Christian and Pagan religions are discussed |
Classical | Not much left written |
Classical | Greeks invented, others copied |
Medieval | Largely anonymous |
Medieval | Hymns and religious poems and plays |
Medieval | Troubadours |
Medieval | Love important subject |
Medieval | Travel and political subjects |
Medieval | Nuns and religious women write |
Medieval | literary devices -- espceially allegory |
Renaissance | Printing press widened audience |
Renaissance | Stage thrusts into yard and groundlings pay a penny |
Renaissance | Sonnets |
17th and 18th centuries | Restoration |
19th century | Romantic period |
19th century | Victorian period |
17th and 18th centuries | Baroque |
19th century | Romanticism |
17th and 18th centuries | Bizarre or fantastical artifice |
17th and 18th centuries | Elaborate ornamentation |
17th and 18th centuries | Prevalent in Italy, Germany, and Spain |
19th century | Philosophical background was provided by the work of Rousseau |
19th century | Exhibited a belief in self-knowledge |
19th century | Favored personal inspiration over imitation of the classics |
20th century | Questioning and expansion of the traditional literary canon |
20th century | Emergence of meta-fiction |
20th century | Experimental literature which blurred traditional boundaries of form and genre |
20th century | modern post modern |
20th century | theater in the round |
20th century | flexible theater |