Periodization of art and literature : a historical perspective

The author of the paper deals with a basic question – what is the history of literature? As a rule, the history of literature belongs to the basic books of the field, they are the starting point for the study of the younger generations of literary scholars, and they are used by the general public to teach and get ideas about the history in the field of literature and folklore. How is the material periodized? How is history interpreted? Is it all about concepts and opinions? He asks questions and tries to find answers. He also notes the division of history into smaller sections, the so-called periodization of history. From this perspective, literary history is a period in which literature is divided based on social, cultural, and artistic changes. The periodization of literary history differs according to geographical location and historical period, but also according to the type of thinking (such as Chinese cyclical repetition of the Yin-Yang pattern of Taoist philosophy) or according to a specific genre (such as Japanese classification based on the development of the haiku genre).