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American literary epochs Puritanism (17th Century) - many religious texts - man is already born with sin and has to prove his worth by working Early Republic (18th Century after the War of Independence) - mainly biographical texts (Benjamin Franklin) - the American Dream American Romanticism (mid 19th Century) 1) Transcendentalism (Nature, God, positive outlook on life, the way leads to God) 2) Dark Romanticism (Darkness, Hell, there is no truth, only doubt, the way leads to Hell) 3) Sentimentalism (Little Women ideal of the housewife) - Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman Realism (end 19th Century) - psychological realism (Henry James) - regional realism (Mark Twain) - naturalism (Frank Norris) Modernism (1913 1940s) - chaos and destruction after the WWI - Harlem Renaissance (Claude McKay) - Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings Post Modernism (1950s/1960s onward) - reaction to modernism only the display of objective reality is excepted

British Literary Epochs Old English (455 1066) - Beowulf Middle English (11 15th Century) - Romances, Chronicles, Drama - 1467 Printing Press establishes English as language Renaissance (15/16th 17th Century) - Elizabethan Age (Chain of Being) - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Drama: Historical, Tragedies, Comedies - Shakespeare, Marlowe Civil War (mid 17th end 17th Century) - 1642 end of monarchy - 1649 renewal of monarchy - heroic plays 18th Century - enlightment - sentimental comedies - parodies Romanticism (19th Century) - emotion is important, not rationalism - lyrical ballads, nature, children, melancholy - William Blake - John Keats - Lord Byron Victorian Period (mid 19th Century 20th Century) - Womans question - Socialist movement - Jane Austen Modernist Period (1910 1930) - Feminism Postmodernism (20th Century) - no fiction - in your face theatre provoking, shocking

Literary Studies Theory 1.) What is literature? - broad vs. narrow definition - development of concepts that can be employed in order to understand texts 2.) Classifications - Texts - Genres - Periods 3.) Approches: - Author-orientated Approaches (Biographical, Hermeneutics, Psychoanalytical, Phenomenological) - Reader-orientated Approaches (theory: there are as many interpretations as there are readers) - Text-orientated Approaches (Rhetoric & Stylistics, Russian Formalism, Structuralism, Semiotics) - Context-Orientated Approaches (Marxism, Feminism, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies) History - Canon (formation and revision) - Periodization - Contextualization Criticism: - study, evaluation and interpretation of literature - hermeneutics (study of the theory and practice of interpretation) - factors influencing textual interpretation