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    LITERARY PRINCIPLES

    (PHILOSOPHIES)

    JOAN MAE B. AGUACITO


    INSTRUCTOR
     (Movement; 1835-1910): A
    literary movement in the late
    19th century which believed in
    arts and rejected its notion of
    possessing a higher moral and
    political worth.

    AESTHETICISM
    AESTHETICISM
    (17th-18th centuries): The term is
    derived from the Latin word “classicsus”
    –meaning “belonging to the highest
    class of citizens”. This movement is
    guided by attitudes like formal balance,
    decorum, restraint, and proportion
    present on Greek and Roman literatures.
    Classicism holds romantic expression as
    unconventional pleasure-seeking.

    CLASSICISM
    CLASSICISM
     (Movement; 1568-1603): This
    period flourished, especially in
    drama during the reign of Queen
    Elizabeth I.
     E.g. Francis Bacon, William
    Shakespeare, Christopher
    Marlowe

    ELIZABETHAN ERA
    ELIZABETHAN ERA
    (Movement; 1660–1790): Known as
    “Age of Reason, this literary
    movement in France focuses on
    rationality, and freedom primarily
    associated with essays and
    philosophical contracts.
    E.g. John Locke, Jean-Jacques
    Rousseau, René Descartes

    ENLIGHTENMENT
    ENLIGHTENMENT
     (Movement, mid-20th century): This
    is a philosophical movement after
    European war dealing with the belief
    that individuals should take
    responsibility on the outcome of
    their actions.
     E.g. Franz Kafka- The
    Metamorphosis, Albert Camus, Jean-
    Paul Sartre

    EXISTENTIALISM
    EXISTENTIALISM
     (1764–1820): An 18th literature
    movement which features on
    mysterious themes and plots
    usually ascribed in “horror
    stories” to create terror.
     E.g. Edgar Allan Poe- The Raven

    GOTHIC FICTION
    GOTHIC FICTION
     This literary movement primarily
    strikes high level abstraction and
    displays virtues to show nobility
    of the character, devotion to
    goodness, and spiritual and
    principled grandeur.
     E.g. Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf

    HEROISM:
    HEROISM:
    (19th Century): A literary philosophy
    in the nineteenth century which deals
    with human’s love for life and takes
    responsibility on seeking new
    knowledge for quest and the freedom
    of discovery. Humanists emphasize
    commitment of humans to find truth
    and morality.

    HUMANISM
    HUMANISM
     (1935–present): This principle
    fuses scientific reality and
    dream-like fantasy within a
    story.
     E.g. Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    MAGIC REALISM
    Six features tend to be found in all Magical- Realist
    Text
     The perspective is that of ‘the other’;
     The duties of the readers, in decoding the text,
    have ‘evolved’;
     The setting has a relatively specific historical,
    geographical, and cultural context;
     Reality is presented as the human experience of
    the universe, and the elements such as dream
    and imagination are consequently present;
     A free, post-structuralism style of writing; and
     The inexplicable, in its many shapes and forms,
    plays a major role in all magical-realist texts.

    MAGIC REALISM
    MAGIC REALISM
     (Movement; 1066–1500): This is a
    period of transition between Anglo
    Saxon and modern English. It
    includes ballads, chivalric romances,
    allegorical poems, and variety of
    religious plays during Norman
    Conquest in England.
     E.g. Geoffrey Chaucer- The
    Canterbury Tales

    MIDDLE ENGLISH
    MIDDLE ENGLISH
     (Movement; 1890’s- 1940s): This is a
    literary movement that represents the
    traditional mode of Western arts,
    morality, and religion and explored the
    ideas of stream of consciousness.
    Modernism points how humans view
    the world and see reality.
     E.g. Virginia Woolf, James Joyce,
    William Faulkner

    MODERNISM
    MODERNISM
     (Movement; 1865–1900): This is a
    literary movement that employs detailed
    realism to propose heredity, social
    conditions, and environment are
    inevitable factors in shaping human traits.
    This movement resembles realism in
    which humans are victims of usual forces
    and social environment where objectivity
    is ascribed for investigations.
     E.g. Henrik Ibsen

    NATURALISM
    NATURALISM
     (Movement; 1660–1798): A movement
    following the classical works in Greek and
    Roman literature which believed on
    limited potentials of human and is
    imperfect in nature. It emphasizes
    restraint, order, and balance.
     E.g. Jonathan Swift, John Dryden,
    Alexander Pope

    NEOCLASSICISM
    NEOCLASSICISM
     (Movement; 1950s–present):
    Literature produced due to the
    influence of European colonization
    which aims to expand Western
    Literature through examining race,
    identity, and culture.
     E.g. Chinua Achebe- Things Fall
    Apart

    POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
    POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
     (Movement;. 1830–1900): A
    19th century literary movement
    that depicts accurate portrayal of
    life rejecting idealization and
    escaping reality.
     E.g. Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy

    REALISM
    REALISM
     (Movement;. 14th-16th; Western
    Europe): It revives the literary
    transition between Middle Ages
    and the modern world.
     E.g. Dante Alighieri,
    Shakespeare

    RENAISSANCE
    RENAISSANCE
     (Movement; 1798–1832): A movement in
    the late 18th century which characterizes
    individual’s role and human’s freedom of
    self- expression and emotions built from
    personal experiences.
     E.g. Nathaniel Hawthorne- Scarlet Letter;
    Mary Shelley- Frankenstein

    ROMANTICISM
    ROMANTICISM
     (Movement; 1920s–1930s): This
    is a literary movement that
    seeks to break limitations and
    boundaries of rational and
    irrational themes through artistic
    literature.
     E.g. Franz Kafka- Metamorphosis

    SURREALISM
    SURREALISM
     (Movement; 1835–1860): A
    literary movement in England
    that focuses on spirituality,
    individual conscience, and close
    relationship to nature.
     E.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson-
    Rhodora

    TRANSCENDENTALISM
    TRANSCENDENTALISM
     (Movement; 1832–1901): A period
    that flourished during the reign of
    Queen Victoria through strict
    political, social and sexual
    conservatism as well as clatters
    between science and religion often
    with satiric themes.
     E.g. Elizabeth Barett Browning

    VICTORIAN ERA
    VICTORIAN ERA

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