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History of Literature

The document discusses the history of literature from ancient Sumerian and Egyptian writings through modern and postmodern periods, noting that literature and writing are connected but not synonymous and scholars have disagreed on when written works became literature. It then outlines various epochs in the history of literature from 500-present.

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History of Literature

The document discusses the history of literature from ancient Sumerian and Egyptian writings through modern and postmodern periods, noting that literature and writing are connected but not synonymous and scholars have disagreed on when written works became literature. It then outlines various epochs in the history of literature from 500-present.

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History Of

Literature
 Literature and writing, though connected, are not
synonymous. The very first writings from
ancient Sumer by any reasonable definition do
not constitute literature—the same is true of
some of the early Egyptian hieroglyphics or the
thousands of logs from ancient Chinese regimes.
Scholars have often disagreed concerning when
written record-keeping became more like
"literature" than anything else; the definition is
largely subjective.
EPOCHS IN HISTORY OF LITERATURE
 500-110: Old English
 1100-1400: Middle English
 1400-1500: The Renaissance begins to spread
 1500-1650: The Renaissance and the Reformatrion
 1650-1800:The Restoration,The Age of
Enlightenment
 1800-1835: The Romantic Age
 1837-1901: The Victorian Age
 1900-1945: Modernism
 1946-Present: PostModernism
Old English

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