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NYSTCE English CST (003) Periods And Writers (With Complete Solution)
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NYSTCE English CST (003) Periods AndWriters (With Complete Solution)
Old English Period - 450-1066 / Characteristics: Primarily religious verse or prose. Beowulf, The
Wanderer, The Seafarer, and Dior.
Middle English Period - 1066-1500 / Characteristics: Chivalric Romances, religious songs, and folk
ballads. Medieval drama: morality and miracle plays.
Renaissance - 1500-1660 / Characteristics: Meaning rebirth, referred to the flourishing of the arts
and learning in general that began in Italy in the 14th century.
Neoclassical Period - 1660-1798 / Characteristics: Literature was written in this period where
social order was undergoing tremendous changes.
Victorian Period - 1830-1901 / Characteristics: Marked by prose fiction and non-fiction, with
common themes of loss and wistfulness. Realism and its forms were part of this era. An English
movement starting in 1837, when Queen Victoria was crowned, and ending in 1901, when she died.
Romantisicm Period - 1820's-1860's / Characteristics: Romanticism is concerned with the
individual more than the society. The Romantic period covers the time-frame between Jacksonian
democracy to the end of the Civil War.
Modern Period - 1890-1945 / Characteristics: Works in this period reflect the changing social,
political, and cultural climate and are diverse, experimental, and non traditional.
Post Modern Period - 1945 --> Characteristics: After modernism wanted to contradict the modernist
ideals, focus on a low to high art change.
Harlem Renaissance - 1920's -1930's / Characteristics: A blossoming African American culture,
particularly in the creative arts, and music. It was the most influential movement in African
American literary history.
, Naturalism - 1890's-1920's / Characteristics: Used Realism to suggest social conditions, heredity,
and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
Age of Transcendentalism - 1836-1860 / Characteristics: These works investigated the relationship
between nature, society, and the divine.
Realism - 1865-1900 / Characteristics: Authors of this time period recognize and identify with the
characters and world they inhabit.
American Renaissance - 1850-1855 / Characteristics: Outburst of American culture contributed to
by romanticism and new methods of transportation. Emphasized emotion and inner feeling and
created a more democratic literature, accessible to everyone.
Revolutionary / Age of Reason - 1765-1790 / Characteristics: Patriotism, pride and common
agreement about issues. Contributors: Thomas Jefferson's Autobiography, Thomas Paine's Common
Sense, James Madison's Federalist Papers.
Colonial Period - 1606-1765 / Characteristics: Religious controversy which included: personal
records, diaries, sermons, newspapers, and almanacs.
Allen Ginsburg - Modern Period / American poet / Beat Generation / "The Fall of America" / He
opposed militarism, materialism, and sexual repression.
Shirley Jackson - Modern Period / American author / "The Lottery"
Jean Paul Sartre - Modern Period / French Philosopher & Existentialist / "No Exit"
Ambrose Bierce - Modern Period / Journalist
James Baldwin - Modern Period / African American novelist, playwright, and Civil Rights activist. /
"Native Son"
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