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Movements in Literature
Romanticism, realism, Symbolism, Modernism, Surealism, Existentialism
Romanticism
18th and 19th centuries, began in Germany and England and spread through Europe, emphasize imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, beauty of natural world, rights of individual. Writers include: William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percey Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo,
Realism
19th century (1800's) response to romanicism. The form of lit that gained the most popularity during this movement was the novel. Realism embraced the true to life subject matter, rejected classical themes such as ballads and myths. Writers include: Honare de Ballzac, Gustave Flaubert, Gerorge Elliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy
existentialism
emphasizes individual choice influenced writers in the 19th and 20th ceturies. Soren Kierkegaard, "the highest good of an individual is to find own unique vocation." There is no objective, rational basis for moral choice. writers include: Blaise Pascal, Frederick Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre.
Symbolism
literary movement that reached its peak in the last two decades of the 19th century (1880’s-) it denotes an early modernist literature movement that reacted against realism. Writers in this movement aim to invoke indirectly in order of being beyond the material world of the five senses. Poetic expression. Refers to the use of one object to symbolize another. Writers of this movement are: Charles Baudelaire, Author Rimbaud, William Butler Yates, James Joyce, T.S Elliot.
Modernism
associated with the first decades of the 20th century (1900’s). the term modernist can be work or aspect. Experimentation and realization that knowledge is not absolute. Common themes are loss of tradition, dominance of technology. Several influences include: Einstein’s theory of relativity, max planks quantum theory, and Freud.
surrealism
a lit movement of 20th century, works feture element of surprise, juxtapose position, and non sequitur items. Andre Breton is the leader of this movement. Aim to free people from restrictive customs and structures. Long live the social revolution. Aligned with communism and anarchism.