Literary Movements

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Excerpt from the CSET English Study Guide

Teacher candidates studying for the CSET English exam should know the major literary movements.

Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome

• Greek Literature - Homer 9th – 8th B.C. through 300 AD
• Roman Literature from 500 BC to 500 A.D
• Major philosophy combines humanism and rationalism.
• The world is man’s to “interrogate, explore, and enjoy.”
• Man is the measurer and interpreter of all things.

Scholasticism

• From the Latin word scholasticus, which means “that [which] belongs to the school”
• Method of learning taught by the academics (or schoolmen) of medieval universities circa 1100–1500
• Used to reconcile the philosophy of the ancient classical philosophers with medieval Christian theology
• Method for learning which puts emphasis on dialectical reasoning
• Purpose was to find the answer to a question or resolve a contradiction
• Eventually applied to classical philosophy and many other fields of study

Medieval Age – Middle Ages or Dark Age – 500 AD to 1500 AD (this is an arbitrary date)

• From the fall of Rome to the Renaissance.
• Feudalism was the political structure but nations are reforming slowly.
• Mysticism - Christianity / Catholicism was the religion that was a major political force.
• Crusades
• Chivalry
• The Great Chain of Being
• Chivalry
• Courtly Love
• Bubonic Plague
• Changes in the English Language.

Renaissance – 1300 - 1650

• Renaissance means “rebirth,” and the rebirth of classical knowledge, of rationalism and

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