15th C: Oral - religious - revenge & forgiveness - Latin
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Renaissance
17th C: Rebirth - moving out of the dark ages - Ancient Greek & Roman - human existence, potential & love - lyrical
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Enlightenment
18th C: Facts, evidence & reason - science & rationalism - rejecting organised religion - study of human over study of God
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Romantiscism
19th C: power of imagination - freedom & individuality - experimental with new ways - accessible to public (ballads) - glorified nature - mystical feel
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Victorian
Late 19th C: novel replaced poetry - realism to address concerns about the poor - comments on morality - not always happy ending - gothic - recurring theme of death/mortality
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Modernism
20th C: WWI & WWII - industrialisation & globalisation - decline of civilisation - alienation of people in a world of machines & capitalism - loneliness - often in 1st person - irony & satire - intertextuality
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Post-modernism
Late 20th C & 21st C: ambiguous meanings behind ideas, concepts or events - purpose is to reveal the worlds absurdities, paradoxes & ironies - intertextuality, meta fiction, pastiche, reader involvement, temporal distopian
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Card 2
Front
17th C: Rebirth - moving out of the dark ages - Ancient Greek & Roman - human existence, potential & love - lyrical
Back
Renaissance
Card 3
Front
18th C: Facts, evidence & reason - science & rationalism - rejecting organised religion - study of human over study of God
Back
Card 4
Front
19th C: power of imagination - freedom & individuality - experimental with new ways - accessible to public (ballads) - glorified nature - mystical feel
Back
Card 5
Front
Late 19th C: novel replaced poetry - realism to address concerns about the poor - comments on morality - not always happy ending - gothic - recurring theme of death/mortality
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