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1. OVERVIEW OF
LITERATURE THROUGH
THE AGES
AGUSTIN. Kimberly W.
ANCHETA, Kenzie M.
BSED 3F-1

2. Meaning of World
Literature
Literature, History and
Culture
Introduction to World
Literature Period

3. WORLD
LITERATURE
-- “Littera” means “Letter”
Literature – Knowledge of
books--
-- refer to the sum total of the
world’s national literatures

4. LITERATURE,
HISTORY AND
CULTURE
The relationship is reciprocal. Our
culture affects what we write and what we
write is used to interpret our history.
However, our history influences culture,
which creates a beautiful loop in which
these three things work together to define a
group of people, a nation, etc.
- ANONYMOUS
“

5. Introduction to World
Literature Periods
Overview of Literature through Ages

6. EARLY PERIOD OF
LITERATURE
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)

7. A
golden age for
literature and
arts
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)

8. • The Iliad and The Odyssey by
Homer
• Works and Days by Hesiod
• Theogony by Hesiod
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

9. • Gorgias
• Aesop
• Plato
The Classical Period
(1200 BCE – 455 CE)
Greek writer and philosopher during this
period:
• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Euripides

10. Also known as
Anglo-Saxon
Period
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)

11. • The Canterbury Tales
• Beowulf
• The Dark Ages and the Bards
• The Dream of the Holy Rood
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

12. • Geoffrey Chaucer
• Thomas Aquinas
• Martin Luther
• Caedmon
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Famous Author during this period:

13. • Elegy
• Religious Liturgy
• Narrative Romance
The Medieval Period
(455 CE – 1485 CE)
Significant Literary Genres

14. It is considered to
be the division
between the Middle
age and Modern era.
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)

15. • Romeo and Juliet
• When I was Fair and Young
• Utopia
• The faerie Queen
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

16. • William Shakespeare
• Sir Thomas More
• Queen Elizabeth I
• Edmund Spencer
The Renaissance Period
(1485-1660 CE)
Famous Author during this period:

17. LATER PERIOD OF
LITERATURE
The Enlightenment Period (1660
BCE – 1790)
The Romantic Period (1790 –
1830)
The Vitorian Period (1832 – 1901)
The Modern Period (1914 – 1945)
The Post Modern Period (1945
onward)

18. --Referred to as
The Age of Reason.
--Era of Logic
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)

19. • All for love
• The Rake of the Lock
• Rights of Man
• Elegy written in a Churchyard
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

20. • John Dryden
• Alexander Pope
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Gray
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)
Famous Author during this period:

21. • Essay
• Melodrama
• Letters
• Fables
The Enlightenment
Period
(1660 – 1790)
Popular Types of literature during this
period:

22. --Great Age for the
Novel
--Emphasize on
Emotion, Imagination
and Individualism.
The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)

23. • I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud
• Kubla Khan
• Song of Innocence and of
Experience
• Mathilda
The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

24. • William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Blake
• Mary Shelley
The Romantic Period
(1790 – 1830)
Famous Author during this period:

25. --The Reign of Queen
Victoria.
-- The literature of this
Era expressed the
fusion of pure romance
to gross realism.
The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)

26. • The Pickwick Papers
• How do I love Thee
• Ulysses
The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

27. • Charles Dicken
• Elizabeth Browning
• Alfred Lord Tennison
The Victorian Period
(1832 – 1901)
Famous Author during this period:

28. Characterized by a
self-conscious break
with traditional ways
of writing, in both
poetry and prose
fiction.
The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)

29. • The Road Not Taken
• And Death Shall Have No
Dominion
• Insensibility
The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

30. • Robert Frost
• Dylan Thomas
• Wilfred Owen
The Modern Period
(1914 – 1945)
Famous Author during this period:

31. Characterized by
reliance on narrative
techniques such as
fragmentation, paradox,
and the unreliable
narrator
The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)

32. • Infinite Jest
• The Love Song Of J. Alfred
Prufrock
• Waiting for Godot
The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
Some Significant Literary work in this
period:

33. • David Foster Wallace
• T.S Eliot
• Samuel Beckett
The Postmodern Period
(1945 – Onward)
Famous Author during this period:

34. Questions !

35. a) The Classical Period
b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
1. It is the Golden Age of Literature and
Arts

36. a) The Modern Period
b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
2. It referred to as The Age of Reason and
also known as neoclassical period

37. a) The Renaissance
Period
b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
3. It is the Great Age for Novels and it
emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and
Individualism

38. a) The Renaissance
Period
b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
4. In what period does the First printing
press was invented?

39. a) The Classical Period
b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment
Period
d) The Romantic Period
5. Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period or
Old English Period.