Historical/Literary/Art Historical Eras and Representative Texts
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Classical Antiquity: Ancient Greece & Rome (c. 600 BC – AD 500) Key words for research: Classical Period
Greek OR Roman Novels/Plays/Epic Poems
Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Agamemnon
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex; Antigone
Euripides: Medea; Elektra
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Virgil: The Aeneid
Graves: I, Claudius; The Golden Ass
Poets
Aeschylus, Lucius Afranius, Alcaeus, Alcaeus of Messene, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon, Apollonius of Rhodes, Archilochus, Aristophanes, Euripides,
Artists
(mostly frescos, crafts, sculptures, columns, temples, architecture)
Kleitias, Ergotimos, Exekias, Euphronios, The Kleophrades painter, The Brygos painter, Psiax, Polykleitos, Myron, Phidias, Mnesikles, Kallikrates, Painios, Iktinos, Cossutius, Lysippos, Skopas, Praxiteles.
Movies
Gladiator, Spartacus, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, Quo Vadis, Troy, 300, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Caligula, Alexander, Clash of the Titans, Helen of Troy, Hercules, TV series Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, TV miniseries Rome, O Brother Where Art Thou
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Roman Satire (epic poem or play), examples include: the film Gladiator
2) Greek Tragedy (play), examples include: the film Mighty Aphrodite
Greek OR Roman Novels/Plays/Epic Poems
Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Agamemnon
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex; Antigone
Euripides: Medea; Elektra
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Virgil: The Aeneid
Graves: I, Claudius; The Golden Ass
Poets
Aeschylus, Lucius Afranius, Alcaeus, Alcaeus of Messene, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon, Apollonius of Rhodes, Archilochus, Aristophanes, Euripides,
Artists
(mostly frescos, crafts, sculptures, columns, temples, architecture)
Kleitias, Ergotimos, Exekias, Euphronios, The Kleophrades painter, The Brygos painter, Psiax, Polykleitos, Myron, Phidias, Mnesikles, Kallikrates, Painios, Iktinos, Cossutius, Lysippos, Skopas, Praxiteles.
Movies
Gladiator, Spartacus, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, Quo Vadis, Troy, 300, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Caligula, Alexander, Clash of the Titans, Helen of Troy, Hercules, TV series Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, TV miniseries Rome, O Brother Where Art Thou
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Roman Satire (epic poem or play), examples include: the film Gladiator
2) Greek Tragedy (play), examples include: the film Mighty Aphrodite
The Middle Ages (c. 500 - 1350) Key words for research: Dark Ages, Medieval times, chivalry, The Crusades
Novels/Epic poems
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Joseph Bedier: The Romance of Tristan and Isolde (Iseut)
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Creysida
Thomas Malory: Le Morte D’Arthur
Poets
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Artists
(Carolingian, Byzantine, Ottonian, Celtic, Romanesque, Gothic)
Andrei Rublev, Theophanes, Gislebertus, Renier de Huy, Wiligelmo da Modena, Benedetto Antelami, Giovanni Pisano, Robert deLuzarches, Jean Pucelle, Nicholas of Verdun, Herrad of Landsberg.
Movies
First Knight, Camelot, A Knight’s Tale, Ladyhawke, Braveheart, Merlin, Dragonheart, Excalibur, Beowulf, King Arthur, Tristan and Isolde, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Seventh Seal, Joan of Arc, The Messenger, The Return of Martin Guerre, Henry V (Kenneth Brannagh’s version), The Lion in Winter, A Man for All Seasons, Hamlet (Mel Gibson’s portrayal), The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Name of the Rose, The Mists of Avalon, Thirteenth Warrior
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Epic Poem (Heroic), examples include: Beowulf
2) Morality Play, examples include:
Novels/Epic poems
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Joseph Bedier: The Romance of Tristan and Isolde (Iseut)
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Creysida
Thomas Malory: Le Morte D’Arthur
Poets
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Artists
(Carolingian, Byzantine, Ottonian, Celtic, Romanesque, Gothic)
Andrei Rublev, Theophanes, Gislebertus, Renier de Huy, Wiligelmo da Modena, Benedetto Antelami, Giovanni Pisano, Robert deLuzarches, Jean Pucelle, Nicholas of Verdun, Herrad of Landsberg.
Movies
First Knight, Camelot, A Knight’s Tale, Ladyhawke, Braveheart, Merlin, Dragonheart, Excalibur, Beowulf, King Arthur, Tristan and Isolde, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Seventh Seal, Joan of Arc, The Messenger, The Return of Martin Guerre, Henry V (Kenneth Brannagh’s version), The Lion in Winter, A Man for All Seasons, Hamlet (Mel Gibson’s portrayal), The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Name of the Rose, The Mists of Avalon, Thirteenth Warrior
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Epic Poem (Heroic), examples include: Beowulf
2) Morality Play, examples include:
The Renaissance (c. 1350-1650) Key words for research: Humanism, Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)
Novels/Epic poems/Plays
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth ...
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen
Poets
Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies, Petrarch, William Shakespeare, Alexander Scott, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Carew, Henry Constable,
Artists
Italian Renaissance: Giotto, Duccio, Lorenzetti, Donatello, Ghiberti, Della Quercia, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Ucello, Pollaiuolo, Michaelangelo (Mannerism), DaVinci, Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Boticelli, Signorelli, Raphael, Corregio, Tintoretto.
Northern Renaissance: Limbourg Bothers, Van Eyck, Bosch, Altdoefer, Durer, Grunewald, Holbein, Bruegel, El Greco, Van der Weyden, Cranach
Movies
Shakespeare in Love, Artemisia, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1492, Dangerous Beauty, Lady Jane, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Other Boleyn Girl, Ever After, TV series The Tudors
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Allegory (epic poem), examples include: Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”
2) Tragicomedy (play), examples include: selected works by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe
Novels/Epic poems/Plays
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth ...
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen
Poets
Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies, Petrarch, William Shakespeare, Alexander Scott, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Carew, Henry Constable,
Artists
Italian Renaissance: Giotto, Duccio, Lorenzetti, Donatello, Ghiberti, Della Quercia, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Ucello, Pollaiuolo, Michaelangelo (Mannerism), DaVinci, Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Boticelli, Signorelli, Raphael, Corregio, Tintoretto.
Northern Renaissance: Limbourg Bothers, Van Eyck, Bosch, Altdoefer, Durer, Grunewald, Holbein, Bruegel, El Greco, Van der Weyden, Cranach
Movies
Shakespeare in Love, Artemisia, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1492, Dangerous Beauty, Lady Jane, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Other Boleyn Girl, Ever After, TV series The Tudors
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Allegory (epic poem), examples include: Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”
2) Tragicomedy (play), examples include: selected works by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe
The Age of Enlightenment (c. 1650-1780) Key words: Neo-Classicism, The Age of Reason, The British Restoration
Novels
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Moliere: Le Tartuffe; Le Misanthrope
Voltaire: Candide
Milton: Paradise Lost
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped; Treasure Island
Daniel DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
Poets
John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, John Dryden, William Cowper, Anna Seward, Thomas Traherne, James Macpherson, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge
The Metaphysical Poets: John Donne, Ben Johnson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, William Drummond, Thomas Hobbes
Artists
Baroque: Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Carracci, Velasquez, Rubens, van Dyck, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Ruisdael, de la Tour, Poussin, Lorrain, Hobbema, Bernini
Rococo: Fragonard, Boucher, Gainsborough, Watteau, Hogarth, West, Chardin, Reynolds, Copley.
Neo-Classical: David, Creuze, Ingres, Houdon, Canova, Kauffman.
Movies
Moll Flanders, Plunkett and Macleane, Immortal Beloved, Amadeus, The Bounty, The Mission, Glory, Dances with Wolves, Sommersby, Revolution, Amistad, Dangerous Liaisons, Restoration, Marquise, The Libertine, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Stage Beauty, The Last King: The Power and the Passion of Charles II, The Duchess, Moliere
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Epistolary novel, examples include: Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, the film Dangerous Liaisons
2) Sentimental novel, examples include: Frances Burney's Evelina (forerunner to the rom-com genre)
Novels
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Moliere: Le Tartuffe; Le Misanthrope
Voltaire: Candide
Milton: Paradise Lost
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped; Treasure Island
Daniel DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
Poets
John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, John Dryden, William Cowper, Anna Seward, Thomas Traherne, James Macpherson, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge
The Metaphysical Poets: John Donne, Ben Johnson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, William Drummond, Thomas Hobbes
Artists
Baroque: Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Carracci, Velasquez, Rubens, van Dyck, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Ruisdael, de la Tour, Poussin, Lorrain, Hobbema, Bernini
Rococo: Fragonard, Boucher, Gainsborough, Watteau, Hogarth, West, Chardin, Reynolds, Copley.
Neo-Classical: David, Creuze, Ingres, Houdon, Canova, Kauffman.
Movies
Moll Flanders, Plunkett and Macleane, Immortal Beloved, Amadeus, The Bounty, The Mission, Glory, Dances with Wolves, Sommersby, Revolution, Amistad, Dangerous Liaisons, Restoration, Marquise, The Libertine, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Stage Beauty, The Last King: The Power and the Passion of Charles II, The Duchess, Moliere
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Epistolary novel, examples include: Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, the film Dangerous Liaisons
2) Sentimental novel, examples include: Frances Burney's Evelina (forerunner to the rom-com genre)
Romantic Era (1780 -1890) Key words for research: Romanticism, Gothic Literature
American Novels
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Gothic Novels
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
French Novels
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo
Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth
Russian Novels
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Poets
Percy Byshe Shelley, George Gordon Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mary Sewell, Robert Burns, Zola, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Robert Southey, C. Beaudelaire, A. Pushkin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hans Christian Andersen
Artists
Fuseli, Turner, Blake, Delacroix, Goya, Gericault, Friedrich,
Movies
Snow White (Sigourney Weaver version), Frankenstein, Dracula, Dangerous Liaisons, Don Juan deMarco, Impromptu, Mary Reilly, The Children of the Century (George Sand), Interview with a Vampire, TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer(season 1), Sleepy Hollow, Rebecca, Madame Bovary, The Man in the iron Mask, Bright Star
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Lyrical Ballad (poem), examples include: Samuel T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
2) Gothic fiction, examples include: Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf”
American Novels
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Gothic Novels
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
French Novels
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo
Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth
Russian Novels
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Poets
Percy Byshe Shelley, George Gordon Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mary Sewell, Robert Burns, Zola, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Robert Southey, C. Beaudelaire, A. Pushkin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hans Christian Andersen
Artists
Fuseli, Turner, Blake, Delacroix, Goya, Gericault, Friedrich,
Movies
Snow White (Sigourney Weaver version), Frankenstein, Dracula, Dangerous Liaisons, Don Juan deMarco, Impromptu, Mary Reilly, The Children of the Century (George Sand), Interview with a Vampire, TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer(season 1), Sleepy Hollow, Rebecca, Madame Bovary, The Man in the iron Mask, Bright Star
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Lyrical Ballad (poem), examples include: Samuel T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
2) Gothic fiction, examples include: Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf”
Victorian Era (1832-1870) Key words for research: Victorianism, Puritanism, Colonialism
Novels
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities
William Makepiece Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest
George Eliot: Silas Marner; Middlemarch
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbevilles; Far From the Madding Crowd
Poets
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Mathew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Charles Lamb, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, John Ruskin, E. Siddal
Artists
Constable, Millais, Gainsborough, Rossetti, Waterhouse, Hunt, de Morgan, Sandys, Tissot, Hulk, Barrett, Stillman
Movies
Jude the Obscure, Mrs. Brown, An Ideal Husband, Wide Sargasso Sea, Return of the Native, Scrooged, A Chrismas Carol, Little Women, The Age of innocence, The Jane Austen Book Club, Becoming Jane, From Hell, The Young Sherlock Holmes, The Elephant Man, Clueless, Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Tess
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Idyll (long, narrative pastoral poem), examples include: Samuel T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
2) The Victorian novel, examples listed above
Novels
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities
William Makepiece Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest
George Eliot: Silas Marner; Middlemarch
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbevilles; Far From the Madding Crowd
Poets
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Mathew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Charles Lamb, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, John Ruskin, E. Siddal
Artists
Constable, Millais, Gainsborough, Rossetti, Waterhouse, Hunt, de Morgan, Sandys, Tissot, Hulk, Barrett, Stillman
Movies
Jude the Obscure, Mrs. Brown, An Ideal Husband, Wide Sargasso Sea, Return of the Native, Scrooged, A Chrismas Carol, Little Women, The Age of innocence, The Jane Austen Book Club, Becoming Jane, From Hell, The Young Sherlock Holmes, The Elephant Man, Clueless, Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Tess
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Idyll (long, narrative pastoral poem), examples include: Samuel T. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
2) The Victorian novel, examples listed above
Modern (1890-1945) Key words for research: Edwardian Era, Modernism
Novels/Plays
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; The Secret Agent
Herman Hesse: Siddhartha; Steppenwolf
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath; The Moon is Down; Of Mice and Men
E.M. Forster: A Room With a View; A Passage to India
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians; The Wings of a Dove
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Also novels by: Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Pasternak
Poets
T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sanburg, e.e. cummings, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ogden Nash, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Earle Birney, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stevie Smith, Wallace Stevens, Edith Sitwell, James Dickey, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, Archibald Lampman, A.E. Houseman, Amy Lowell, John McCrae, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louis MacNeice, Robert Service, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rimbaud, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickenson, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, Elizabeth Bishop, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Andre Breton, C. Beaudelaire, F. Pessoa, Federico García Lorca,Paul Valéry, James Agee, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Stephen Crane
Artists
Realism: Corot, Daumier, Courbet, Manet, Bonheur, Millet, Homer.
Impressionism: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Whistler, Degas, Rodin, Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent
Post-Impressionism: Seurat, Cezanne, Gaughin, Van Gogh, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec
Expressionism: Kollwitz, Nolde, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, beckman
Cubism: Picasso, Braque, Lipchitz, Brancusi, Delaunay
Fauvism: Matisse, Rouault, Braque
Fantastic Art: Klee, Chagall, dechirico
Futurism: Boccioni, Carra, Stella
Dada: Duchamp, Arp, Ernst, Schwitters
Modernism: Mondrian, O’Keefe, Hopper, Hartley, davis
Surrealism: Ernst, Dali, Miro, Picasso. Magritte, Matta
Movies
Anna Karenina, Remains of the Day, Titanic, Rosewood, Lawrence of Arabia, In Love and War, Inherit the Wind, For the Boys, Washington Square, Up at the Villa, Rasputin, Angela’s Ashes, Cradle Will Rock, The Last September, All Quiet on the Western Front, East of Eden, A Passage to India, Gallipoli, Tea with Mussolini, Seven Years in Tibet, Surviving Picasso, The Razor’s Edge, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Painted Veil
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Interior Monologue (stream-of-consciousness, examples include: James Joyce’s Ulysses
2) Science fiction and war realism (novel forms), examples included above
Novels/Plays
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; The Secret Agent
Herman Hesse: Siddhartha; Steppenwolf
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath; The Moon is Down; Of Mice and Men
E.M. Forster: A Room With a View; A Passage to India
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians; The Wings of a Dove
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Also novels by: Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Pasternak
Poets
T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sanburg, e.e. cummings, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ogden Nash, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Earle Birney, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stevie Smith, Wallace Stevens, Edith Sitwell, James Dickey, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, Archibald Lampman, A.E. Houseman, Amy Lowell, John McCrae, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louis MacNeice, Robert Service, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rimbaud, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickenson, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, Elizabeth Bishop, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Wilfred Owen, Sylvia Plath, Andre Breton, C. Beaudelaire, F. Pessoa, Federico García Lorca,Paul Valéry, James Agee, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Stephen Crane
Artists
Realism: Corot, Daumier, Courbet, Manet, Bonheur, Millet, Homer.
Impressionism: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Whistler, Degas, Rodin, Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent
Post-Impressionism: Seurat, Cezanne, Gaughin, Van Gogh, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec
Expressionism: Kollwitz, Nolde, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, beckman
Cubism: Picasso, Braque, Lipchitz, Brancusi, Delaunay
Fauvism: Matisse, Rouault, Braque
Fantastic Art: Klee, Chagall, dechirico
Futurism: Boccioni, Carra, Stella
Dada: Duchamp, Arp, Ernst, Schwitters
Modernism: Mondrian, O’Keefe, Hopper, Hartley, davis
Surrealism: Ernst, Dali, Miro, Picasso. Magritte, Matta
Movies
Anna Karenina, Remains of the Day, Titanic, Rosewood, Lawrence of Arabia, In Love and War, Inherit the Wind, For the Boys, Washington Square, Up at the Villa, Rasputin, Angela’s Ashes, Cradle Will Rock, The Last September, All Quiet on the Western Front, East of Eden, A Passage to India, Gallipoli, Tea with Mussolini, Seven Years in Tibet, Surviving Picasso, The Razor’s Edge, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Painted Veil
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Interior Monologue (stream-of-consciousness, examples include: James Joyce’s Ulysses
2) Science fiction and war realism (novel forms), examples included above
Post Modern (1945-1979) Key words for research: Post-Modernism, theater of the absurd, magical realism, beat generation
Novels/Plays
War / spy fiction Alistair Maclean: H.M.S. Ulysses; The Guns of Navarone James Michener: The Bridges at Toko-Ri; Hawaii; Tales of the South Pacific Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five Joseph Heller: Catch 22 Terry Southern Dr. Strangelove (political satire) Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal Drama Graham Greene: Brighton Rock; The Power and the Glory; The End of the Affair Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman Margaret Atwood: The Edible Woman J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye Alex Haley Roots Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon Joan Didion, Play it As It Lays William Styron, Sophie’s Choice Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Truman Capote In Cold Blood Richard Yates Revolutionary Road Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart |
Science Fiction
Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Nevil Shute On the Beach Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time Ray Bradbury Farenheit 451 Philosophical Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Beatnik/Boho Jack Kerouac: On the Road Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America Psychedelic William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Horror Stephen King The Shining, Carrie Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire Magical Realism Gabriel Garcia de Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Poets
William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, Sylvia Plath, Bob Dylan, Kingsley Amis, Pablo Neruda, P.K. Page, Irving Layton, John Berryman, Cecil Day Lewis, Allan Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, George Mackay Brown, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O’Hara, Charles Bukowski, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Maya Angelou, Paul Auster, Margaret Avison, John Berryman, Earle Birney, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, Joseph Brodsky, William S. Burroughs, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich,
Artists
Abstract Expressionism: Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, Hofman, Rothko, Wyeth, Beckman
Pop Art: Warhol, Lichtenstein, Johns, Segal, Christo,
Op Art: Vasarely, Anuszkiewicz
Minimalism: Hesse, Judd
Movies
Schindler’s List, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gentleman’s Agreement, Mississippi Burning, A Bridge too Far, Sophie’s Choice, Il Postino, October Sky, Saving Private Ryan, Swing Kids, Life is Beautiful, Cotton Mary, The Untouchables, Patton, This Boy’s Life, Gods and Monsters, Hilary and Jackie, The Hurricane, The Matrix, Existenz, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Guilty by Suspicion, Naked Lunch, Out of Africa, Revolutionary Road, Far From Heaven, Bobby
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Pastiche, examples include: The films Shawn of the Dead and Shrek.
2) Meta-fiction, examples include: The films Stranger than Fiction and Adaptation
William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, Sylvia Plath, Bob Dylan, Kingsley Amis, Pablo Neruda, P.K. Page, Irving Layton, John Berryman, Cecil Day Lewis, Allan Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, George Mackay Brown, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O’Hara, Charles Bukowski, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Maya Angelou, Paul Auster, Margaret Avison, John Berryman, Earle Birney, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, Joseph Brodsky, William S. Burroughs, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich,
Artists
Abstract Expressionism: Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, Hofman, Rothko, Wyeth, Beckman
Pop Art: Warhol, Lichtenstein, Johns, Segal, Christo,
Op Art: Vasarely, Anuszkiewicz
Minimalism: Hesse, Judd
Movies
Schindler’s List, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gentleman’s Agreement, Mississippi Burning, A Bridge too Far, Sophie’s Choice, Il Postino, October Sky, Saving Private Ryan, Swing Kids, Life is Beautiful, Cotton Mary, The Untouchables, Patton, This Boy’s Life, Gods and Monsters, Hilary and Jackie, The Hurricane, The Matrix, Existenz, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Guilty by Suspicion, Naked Lunch, Out of Africa, Revolutionary Road, Far From Heaven, Bobby
Narrative genres popular at this time
1) Pastiche, examples include: The films Shawn of the Dead and Shrek.
2) Meta-fiction, examples include: The films Stranger than Fiction and Adaptation
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