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also known as Western literature

the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, as several geographically or historically related languages.

• European Literature

• Ancient Literature

• Renaissance Literature

• Medieval Literature

The use of clay tablets and papyrus paper scrolls paved the way for the writing of the Holy Scriptures which is very much influential in European literature.

Likewise, songs, poems, fables, anecdotes, and parables were all invented during this perio

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• Ancient Literature

• Medieval Literature

• Renaissance Literature

• European Literature

The Fall of the Roman Empire marked the beginning of the Medieval or Middle Ages.

Also called as Dark Ages

The use of vellum (goat skin paper), parchment  (sheep skin paper), and wooden tablets covered in green or black wax to fashion books which are more durable than scrolls became widespread.

• Ancient Literature

• Medieval Literature

• Renaissance Literature

• European Literature

This period marked the reawakening of a new spirit of intellectual and artistic inquiry, which was the dominant feature of this political, religious, and philosophical phenomenon, was essentially a revival of the spirit of ancient Greece and Rome.

In literature this meant a new interest in and analysis of the great classical writers. Scholars searched for and translated lost ancient texts, whose dissemination was much helped by developments in printing in Europe from about 1450. Written short stories, novellas and tales were born in this period.

• Medieval Literature

• Renaissance Literature

• European Literature

• Ancient Literature

was a period of unceasing disturbance and violent storms, no less in literature than in politics and society.

This includes the ascertainment of the grounds and relations of knowledge, faith, reason, and authority in religion, metaphysics, ethics, politics, economics, and natural science. Hence, this period is also known as Age of Reason.

• 18th Century Literature

• 17th Century Literature

• 20th Century Literature

• 19th Century Literature

was marked by two main impulses: reason and passion.

The cultivation of the feelings stimulated philanthropy, exaltation of personal relationships, religious fervor, and the cult of sentiment, or sensibility.

In literature the rational impulse fostered satire, argument, wit, plain prose. The other inspired the psychological novel and the poetry of the sublime. Novel and satire were born in this period.

• 18th Century Literature

• 17th Century Literature

• 20th Century Literature

• 19th Century Literature

was one of the most vital and interesting periods of all.

Influences that had their origins or were in development in this period – Romanticism, Symbolism, Realism

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• 18th Century Literature

• 17th Century Literature

• 20th Century Literature

• 19th Century Literature

features an interest in the unconscious and the irrational was reflected in their work and that of others of about this time.

In the 1930s these qualities thought were not abandoned but, rather, were expanded into a political context, as writers divided into those supporting political commitment in their writing and those reacting conservatively against such a domination of art by politic

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• 18th Century Literature

• 17th Century Literature

• 20th Century Literature

• 19th Century Literature

The Tragedies

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

Macbeth

Anthony and Cleopatra

• William Shakespeare

• James Joyce

• Virginia Wolf

• Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes

• William Shakespeare

• James Joyce

• Virginia Wolf

• Arthur Conan Doyle