presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literary movements /
[project editor, Ira Mark Milne]
2nd ed
Detroit :
Gale, Cengage Learning,
c2009
xcv, 872 p. :
ill
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Title from title screen (viewed on May 29, 2009).
Absurdism -- Beat movement -- Bildungsroman -- Classicism -- Colonialism -- Elizabethan drama -- Enlightenment -- Existentialism -- Expressionism -- Gothic literature -- Greek drama -- Harlem renaissance -- Humanism -- Imagism -- Magic realism -- Medieval mystics -- Modernism -- Naturalism -- Neoclassicism -- Postcolonialism -- Postmodernism -- Realism -- Renaissance literature -- Romanticism -- Science fiction and fantasy literature -- Surrealism -- Symbolism -- Transcendentalism -- Smaller movements and schools
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"Literary Movements for Students is designed for students and researchers studying the specific works representative of various literary movements. New and updated entries provide in-depth background on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of its characteristic styles and themes. Approximately 25 movements are covered, including absurdism, Greek drama, modernism, science fiction/fantasy, surrealism and a new chapter on smaller and up and coming movements and literary schools"--Gale Web site