Literary movements for students : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literary movements / Ira Mark Milne, project editor.| [Gale electronic resource]
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.
Summary
Entries provide in-depth historical background information on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of each movement's characteristic styles and themes.