British History

Old English Period (Anglo- Saxon) Period

Middle English Period

 Age of Chaucer
 Age of Revival

The Renaissance

 Elizabethan Age
 Jacobean Age
 Caroline Age
 Commonwealth Period (Puritan Interregenum)

The Neoclassical Period

 The Restoration
 The Augustan Age/ Enlightenment Age
 The Age of Sensibility (Age of Johnson)/ Enlightenment Age

The Romantic Period

The Victorian Period

 The Pre-Raphaelites
 Aestheticism and Decadance

The Modern Period

 The Edwardian Period

 The Georgian Period

The Postwar Period

The Post-Modern Period

American History
Pre-colonial and Colonial Era (Pre-Columbian–1720)
Revolutionary and Early American Era (1720–1820)
Romanticism (1820–1865)
Realism and Naturalism (1865–1910)
Modernism (1910–1945)
Postmodernism (1945–Present)

World History of Literature

Pre-classical and Classical Greek Literature(c. 750–350 BCE)
Classical Chinese Literature (c. 1000–200 BCE)
Arabic and Persian Literature from the Middle Ages(c. 500 CE–1400)

Literature of the European Renaissance (1350–1650)

Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (1820–1910)

 Literature of European Modernism (1910–1945)
Postcolonial African Literature (1950–Present)
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature(1940–Present)

Literary Devices (*M.H Abrams)

Literary Terms (*M.H Abrams)

Poetry
Sound
Accent, Rhythm, Meter, and the Poetic Line
Images, Symbols, Allusions, and Figurative Language
Voice and Genre/ Types of Poetry

Rhetoric and Prosody

Prose Fiction
Plot Structure
Point of View
Characters and Characterization and Types
Types of Narrators

Setting
Theme
Style and Tone
The Novel and Its Genres

Plays/ Drama
Structure, Plot, and Theme
Character and Dialogue
The Physical Stage: Mise-en-Scène and Lighting
Major Theatrical Genres: Tragedy, Comedy, Drama

Literary Movements
Renaissance

 Scottish Chaucerians
 University Wits
 Comedy of Humors
 Masque
 Sons of Ben
 Metaphysical Poets
 Cavalier poets

Enlightenment Age

 Commedia Dell’ arte

 Kit Kat Club
 Scriblerus Club
 Graveyard Poets

Romantic Age

 Lake Poets
 Satanic School of Poetry
 Cockney School of Poetry
 Dark Romantics
 Transcendentailsm

Victorian Age

 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 Aestheticism
 Fireside poets
 Oxford Movement
 Realism
 Naturalism
 Impressionism
 Symbolism
 Imagism
 Surrealism

Modern Age

 Rhymer’s Club
 Irish Dramatic Movement
 Auden Group
 Georgian Poets
 Harlem Renaissance
 War Poets
 Lost Generation
 Bloomsbury Group
 Stream of Consciousness
 Black Mountain Poets
  New Apocalypse
 Southern Agrarians
 Post Modern Age
 Black Arts Movement
 Existentialism
 Agitprop
 Theatre of Cruelty
 Epic Theatre
 Angry Young Man
 Kitchen Sink Drama
 Theatre of Absurd
 Theatre of Oppressed
 Beat Generation
 Confessional Poetry
 Movement Poets

Literary Criticism
Greek Critics

Roman Critics

Middle Age Critics

Enlightenment Age Critics

Romantic Age Critics

Victorian Age Critics

*(M.A.R Habib, Harry Bleimers, David Lodge)

Major works in Criticism

Literary Theory and their Applications

Literary Theories

 New Criticism
 Formalism, Russian Formalism
 Structuralism, Post-Structuralism
 Deconstruction
 Marxism
 Feminism
 Gender Studies
 Queer Theory
 Psychoanalysis Criticism
 Archtetypal Criticism
 Reader Response Theory
 Modernism, Post- Modernism
 New Historicism, Cultural Materialism
 Cultural Studies
 Post Colonialism
 Eco Criticism

Applications

 Close Reading and New Criticism

 Semiotic and Deconstructive Approaches
 (New) Historicist and Cultural Studies Approaches
 Theories of Social Class and Ideology
 Psychoanalytic Approaches
 Gender and Feminist Theories
 Queer Theories
 Postcolonial and Critical Race Theories
 Rhetorical Analysis
 Genre Theories
 And other applications

Major Works