Literature II

==Basic Concepts==
===Literary Movements===
Literary periods are a system for arranging the history and teaching of literature. Chronologically arranged, they provide convenient categories for historically oriented approaches to literature. The names assigned to periods are frequently arbitrary: some derived, in England, from the names of sovereigns ( Jacobean, Victorian) others from historical periods (Romantic, Modern).
====The Romantic Period (1798-1837)====
The publication of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads is usually marked as the start of the Romantic Period. 
====The Victorian Age (1837-1901)====
====The Irish Renaissance (late 19th-early 20th C.)====
====Modernism (1901-1945)====
The application of the term "modern," of course, varies with the passage of time, but it is frequently applied specifically to the literature written since the beginning of World War I in 1914. 
====Neoromanticism (1940-1950)====
A reaction to the ugly modern world of machines and new cities” (Marshall, 2) 
====The Movement (1950-1960)====
====Post-modernism (1945-1990s)====
===Literary Elements===
===Literary Criticism===
Estimation of the value of a particular work or body of work on such grounds as:
*the personal and/or cultural significance of the themes and the uses of language of a text;
*the insights and impact of a text;
*and the aesthetic production of the text;
basing our analysis on a particular literary theory.
====Literary Theory====
When approaching the analysis of a text, critics do so from a certain point of view that reflects their ideology or beliefs. The theory chosen provides with the tools and categories for the analysis. 
Main critical approaches:
*Structuralism (1920s-present)
*Formalism, New Criticism (1930s-present)
*Psychoanalytic Criticism (1930s-present)
*Marxist Criticism (1930s-present)
*Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)
*Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)
*Gender/Queer Studies (1970s-present)
*Post Structuralism Deconstruction (1966-present)
*New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)
*Post Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)
==Authors Overview==
Author 	Life Span	Movement 	Movement 	Related Concept(s) 	Work(s) 	Work(s)
Author 	Life Span	Name 	Span 	Related Concept(s) 	Title 	Year
Wilfred Owen 	1893-1918	 	 	War Poetry 	Dulce et Decorum est. 	1921
John M. Synge 	1871-1909	Irish Renaissance 	late 19th C. -early 20th C.	 	Riders to the Sea 	1921
T.S. Eliot 	1888-1965	Modernism 	1901-1945 	 	The Hollow Men 	1925
Joseph Conrad 	1857-1924	Modernism 	1901-1945 	 	Heart of Darkness 	1902
Virginia Woolf 	1882-1941	Modernism 	1901-1945 	Stream of Consciousness	To the Lighthouse 	1927
Stevie Smith 	1902-1971	 	 	 	Not Waving but Drowning	1957
Dylan Thomas 	1914-1953	Neo-Romanticism 	1940-1950 	 	Fern Hill 	1945
Philip Larkin 	1922-1985	The Movement 	1950-1960 	 	I Remember, I Remember 	1955
Seamus Heaney 	1939-2013	 	 	 	Digging 	1966
Benjamin Zephaniah	b. 1958 	Post-Colonial Literature	 	Dub Poetry 	White Comedy 	1977
Nadine Gordimer 	1923-2014	 	 	 	The Train from Rhodesia	1952
Leanne Shapton 	b. 1973 	Post-modernism 	1945-1990s 	Multimodality 	Important Artifacts... 	2009
==Possible Essay Titles==
*Owen's “Dulce et Decorum Est”, or the True Face of War
*Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”: A Truly Modernist Poem
*The True Face of Colonialism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
*Synge’s Outstanding Contribution to the Irish Renaissance in Riders to the Sea
*Failed Communication in Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning”
*Larkin’s View of Childhood in “I Remember, I remember”
*Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: A Paradigmatic Modernist Novel
*Subversive Style in Zephaniah’s “White Comedy” 
*Literary Strategies to Uncover Social Issues in Nadine Gordimer’s “The Train from Rhodesia"
*The Power of Legacy in Heaney’s “Digging”