21st Literature

• Literature


  An artistic representation of life, that is, of varied human experiences, in different forms of expressions
• Literature


  The preserved writings of a country or a people. It is the embodiment of a nation's traditions, customs, and cultural patterns
• Literature


  A faithful reproduction of man's manifold experiences blended into one harmonious expression
• World Literature


  Works of literature that have been created, distributed, and circulated beyond their country of origin
• World Literature


  Encompasses literary works from diverse cultures and languages, transcending national boundaries
• World Literature


  Writing that circulates widely beyond the borders of its country of origin
• World Literature


  Describes the entirety of global literature/ the circulation of literary materials into all parts of the world, regardless of their origins
• Literary genres


  • Prose fiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose nonfiction
  • Drama
  • Creative nonfiction
• Literature


  An artistic representation of life, that is, of varied human experiences, in different forms of expressions
• Literature


  The preserved writings of a country or a people. It is the embodiment of a nation's traditions, customs, and cultural patterns
• Literature


  A faithful reproduction of man's manifold experiences blended into one harmonious expression
• World Literature


  Works of literature that have been created, distributed, and circulated beyond their country of origin
• World Literature


  Encompasses literary works from diverse cultures and languages, transcending national boundaries
• World Literature


  Writing that circulates widely beyond the borders of its country of origin
• World Literature


  Describes the entirety of global literature/ the circulation of literary materials into all parts of the world, regardless of their origins
• Literary genres


  • Prose fiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose nonfiction
  • Drama
  • Creative nonfiction
• Literary Periods/Movements


  • The evolution of literature through time
  • The span of time in which literature shared intellectual, linguistic, religious, and artistic influences
• The Classical Period (1200 BC - 455 AD)

  • The Heroic Age was known as a stage in the development of human societies
  • The first literary period
  • It gave rise to legends about heroic deeds and mythology
  • Greek legends were passed along orally, including Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
  • Started the practice of writing literature down
  • The chaotic period of warrior-princes, wandering sea-traders, and fierce pirates
• Philippines and the World

  • Sea-traders
  • Fierce pirates
• Classical Greek Period


  800-200 BC
• Golden Age of Greece


  Some of the world's finest art, poetry, drama, architecture, and philosophy originated in Athens
• Greek writers, playwrights, and philosophers

  • Aesop
  • Plato
  • Socrates
  • Aristotle
  • Euripides
  • Sophocles
• Classical Roman Period


  200 BC - 455 AD
• Greece's culture


  Gave way to Roman power when Rome conquered Greece in 146 AD
• Roman writers


  • Ovid
  • Horace
  • Virgil
• Roman rhetoricians


  • Cicero
  • Quintilian
• Notable Works


  • Amores and Metamorphoses
  • The Art of Poetry
  • Aeneid
• Patristic Period


  70 AD-455 AD
• Patristic Period


  • Christianity spread across Europe and the fall of Roman Empire to the barbarians
  • Early Christian writers include Saint Augustine, Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Jerome
  • First compilation of the Bible
• The Medieval Period


  428 - 1450
• The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period


  428-1066
• The "Dark Ages"


  Occurred after Rome fell and barbarian tribes moved into Europe. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrated to Britain displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
• Notable Works


  • Beowulf
  • The Wanderer
  • The Seafarer
• Asia during the Medieval Period

  • Rise of haiku poetry
  • Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji)
• The Middle English Period

  1066 - 1450
• The Middle English Period

  • Norman French armies invaded and conquered England and marked the end of Anglo-Saxon hierarchy
  • The rise of French Chivalric romances spread in popularity
  • Scholastic and theological works were produced
• Notable Works


  • Marie de France - French fables
  • Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
  • Anonymous-Gawain Poet (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
  • Petrarch-Italian poetry
  • Dante The Divine Comedy
• The Renaissance and Reformation Period


  1485 - 1649
• Periods


  • Early Tudor Period (1485 - 1558)
  • Elizabethan Period (1558 - 1603)
  • Jacobean Period (1603-1625)
  • Caroline Age (1625-1649)
• Elizabethan Period


  1558 - 1603