A Companion Text for Core Studies 6 Genres § I. The Theory of Genres Literary Genres         Classification by Types         How Literary Critics Have Used Genres § II. Tragedy: A Genre Tragedy         Greek Tragedy: Aristotle's Poetics         Medieval Tragedy and the Wheel of Fortune         Elizabethan or Shakespearean Tragedy         The Problem Play or Drama of Ideas Selections from Aristotle's Poetics The Tragic Vision § III. Lyric Poetry: A Genre Reading Lyric Poetry         Lyric Poetry and Familiar Popular "Texts"         Lyric Poetry: The Conventions We Already Know The Lyric Stanza: A Convention Lyric Epiphanies and Speakers The Meditative Romantic Ode § IV. The Novel: A Genre The Novel         Introduction         Development of the Novel         Reasons for the Novel's Popularity         Experimentation: The Developing Role of the Naarrator         Proliferaiton of Types Historical Background Literary Periods         The Period Concept         Cautions and Qualifications         Usefulness of the Concept         Period Descriptors Medieval View of Love         The Chain of Being and Caritas         Caritas vs. Amor         Courtly Love The Renaissance         General Characteristics of the Renaissance         The Great Chain of Being         Political Implications of the Chain of Being         Humanism         "Imitation"         Protestant Reformation         Literary Ramifications Shakespeare's Theater         English Theater in the Mid-Sixteenth Century         Shakespeare's Stage         Shakespeare's Language         Shakespeare's Multiple Perspectives         How Not to Read Shakespeare Neoclassicism         Introduction to Neoclassicism         The New Restraint         Influence of the Classics         Neoclassical Assumptions and Their Implications         Social Themes         The Age of Reason Romanticism         Introduction to Romanticism         Historical Considerations         Imagination         Nature         Symbolism and Myth         Other Concepts: Emotion, Lyric Poetry, and the Self         Contrasts with Neoclassicism         Individualism: The Romantic Hero         The Everyday and the Exotic         The Romantic Artist in Society         Spread of the Romantic Spirit         Recent Developments Excerpts from A Guide to the Study of Literature: A Companion Text for Core Studies 6, Landmarks of Literature, ©English Department, Brooklyn College. Syllabus || Core Studies 6 Page || Melani Home Page