- Foundations (myth, tragedy, meaning)
- Classical Order (reason, virtue, structure)
- Romantic Rebellion (emotion, individuality)
- Realist Correction (truth, society)
- Modern Crisis (identity, fragmentation)
- Existential Depth (freedom, meaning)
- Contemporary Layer (self, society, systems)
Based on “The Compact Anthology of World Literature” (+ my own timeline)
- Classical Antiquity
- Middle Ages (500 - 1500)
- Renaissance (1400 - 1600)
- Scientific Revolution (1500 - 1700)
- Enlightenment 1680 - 1800)
- RTSM - Romanticism (1798 - 1850): Goethe, Bronte, Rousseau, Coleridge…
- Realism (1820 - 1920): Dostoyevsky, Tolstoj, Baudelaire,…
- Modernism (1900 - 1945): Pirandello, Proust, Woolf, James Joyce, Kafka, Anna Akhmatova..
- Postmodernism (1945 - 2000): Calvi
- Contemporary Literature (present)