European Literature

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Classical Period 
Focused on heroism and Philosophical dialogues
Medieval Period 
Religious themes, including allegorical interpretations of biblical stories
Renaissance  
Revival of interest in classical texts and humanism
Enlightenment  
Reason, science, and social criticism
Romanticism 
Emotion, imagination and sublime
Modernism 
Broke with traditional forms and conventions experimenting with narratives techniques, language and structure
Classical Themes 
Heroism, conquest, exploration, Impact of Eurpean Expansion
Medieval Themes  
Religioun, chivalry, fate & Destiny, Heroism & bravery
Renaissance Themes 
Individualism vs. society, power & politics, Religion & Spirituality
Enlightenment Themes 
Reason & Rationalism, Social Critique, Satira & Irony
Modernistic Themes 
Alienation & Disillusionment
Identity and the self
Urban life and the City
The search for meaning
Classical Genres 
Epic poetry
Drama
Historiography
Philosophy
Medieval Genres 
Allegory
Chivalric Literature
Religious Literature
Renaissance Genres 
Poetry
Drama
Prise Fiction
Enlightenment Genres 
Philosophical treaties
Satire
Essay
Novel
Modernistic Genres 
Novels
Poetry
Manifesto
Short Stories
Essay
Classical Authors 
Euripides
Homer
Medieval authors 
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante Alighieri
Renaissance authors  
William Shakespeare
Renaissance Authors  
William Shakespeare
John Milton
Enlightenment Authors  
Voltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Modernist authors  
James Joyce
T.S. Eliot
The Waste of land, Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
Ulysses, Finnegans wake 
James Joyce
A vindication of the rights of the women
Mary Wollstonecraft
Candide 
Voltaire
Paradise lost 
John Milton
Hamlet 
William Shakespeare
The divine Comedy  
Dante Alighieri
Father of English literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury tales  
Geoffrey Chaucer
Medea 
Euripides
Iliad and odyssey 
Homer