[ENGL 2P19] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (29 pages long!)

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2P19
• Professor: Lynn Arner

Document Summary

Things are culturally and class determined (food, literature etc. ) but we don"t think of them that way. Shakespeare"s plays were considered sloppy back in the day. Hegemony: coined by antonio gramsci, wrote it in the prison notebook. Is a set of ideologies that benefit the ruling classes (bourgeoisie) but that win a bloc of consent from the bulk of the population. In the middle ages, coercion was more prominent. Conventional literary periodizition for english literature: anglo-saxon (old english): c. 7th century- 1066, medieval literature: 1066-1500, renaissance literature: 1500-c. 1603 or 1610 (when queen elizabeth died, renaissance started sometime in the 13th centuray in italy. Ireland: germanic tribes invaded england in the 5th and 6th centuries: the angles, the. Vikings: from around 800, there were waves of viking raids on the east coast of england. Iceland made of vikings and enslaved english women.