EUROPEAN
LITERATURE
reporters :
• Bullecer, Eunice
• Nelvin, Fuentes
• Regaro, Mohanifah
• Pobadora, JL
• Mayuman, Jashmine
• Mercado, Aljur
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Understand the concept of
European literature
• Appreciate the influence of
European literature today
EUROPE
One of the seven
traditional continents of
the Earth. Europe is the
westernmost peninsula of
Eurasia, west of Asia.
EUROPEAN LITERATURE
European literature also known as
Western literature, written in
Indo-European languages that
reflects the values and beliefs of
the Western world.
LITERARY PERIODS OF
EUROPEAN LITERATURE
• Renaissance 1485-1680 • Victorian Period 1837-1901
• Enlightenment - 1650-1800 • Modernism-1910-1965
• Romanticism-1798-1870 • Post-Modernism - 1965- Present
• Realism-1820-1920
RENAISSANCE 1485-1680
With the new wave of knowledge, many writers of
this time or period drew on classical methods
and styles from the ancient Greeks. These
included Aristotle, Homer, Plato, and Socrates.
Some Romans that were modeled were Cicero,
Horace, Sallust, and Virgil.
RENAISSANCE 1485-1680
• Politics were often an influence on
Renaissance literature.
• Talented and creative individuals sustained
themselves through the system of
patronage.
1. William
Shakespeare -
"Romeo and Juliet"
(1595-1596)
2. John Donne -
"The Sun Rising"
(1633),
ENLIGHTENMENT 1650-1800
• By product of the Renaissance that birthed
humanism
• Could be summed up as the celebration of different
ideas
• Birthplace of many great thinkers who put their ideas
into writing and made their thoughts available to
historians of this century
1. Voltaire -
"Candide" (1759),
2. Jean-Jacques
Rousseau -
"The Social
Contract" (1762)
ROMANTICISM 1798-1870
• a literary movement against the aristocratic
culture that started in the late 18th century
• uplifts the characters from humble
backgrounds or the common man and
places importance on imagination and
emotion
• focused more on feelings as the central idea and
experience as it is considered “the language of
the heart”
1. Mary Shelley -
"Frankenstein"
(1818)
2. Lord Byron -
"Don Juan"
(1819-1824),
REALISM 1820-1920
• draws on the commonplace and the daily struggles of
the common man
• focuses on documenting the real events and issues
that happen to ordinary people
• focuses on groups of people in the hope of uncovering
who they really are and how others could relate to them
1. Gustave Flaubert
-
"Madame Bovary"
(1857)
2. Charles
Dickens -
"Oliver Twist"
(1838),
VICTORIAN PERIOD 1837-1901
Victorian era literature was characterized by
depictions of everyday people, hard lives, and
moral lessons. They were meant for more than
just entertainment. Victorians were interested
in the hero as well as folk art.
1. Robert Browning
-
"My Last Duchess"
(1842),
2. Oscar Wilde -
"The Picture of
Dorian Gray" (1890),
MODERNISM 1901-1965
• marked by sudden changes in man’s
perspective of the world
• challenged the prevailing order during its
time and focused on experimentation while
self-consciously breaking away from
traditional forms
1. James Joyce -
"Ulysses" (1922),
2. Virginia Woolf
-
"Mrs. Dalloway"
(1925)
POST-MODERNISM 1965-present
• shows a crisis of identity of the human being in
ethnicity and sexuality, as well as the struggle for
social and cultural acceptance in a hypocritical
society
• does not pretend to be new and original; rather, it
juxtaposes the old and the new to contextualize
the literary text in the readers’ minds
1. Umberto Eco - "The Name
of the Rose" (1980)
2. Salman Rushdie -
"Midnight's Children" (1981)
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