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The literary and aesthetic movements that group writers and works by shared program, era or stance rather than by nationality or form: early modern and neoclassical movements, Romantic and transcendentalist movements, realist and naturalist movements, symbolist and aesthetic movements, early twentieth century avant-garde movements, modernism and its currents, postwar and existentialist movements, and postcolonial and global movements. Belongs here: a named movement such as Romanticism or modernism that authors and works are explicitly associated with. Does not belong here: an author's national tradition, carried under Authors, or a work's own genre or form.

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Acmeism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Aestheticism

Symbolist and Aesthetic Movements

American Literary Regionalism

Realist and Naturalist Movements

Angry Young Men

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Anthropophagic Movement

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Augustan Literature

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Baroque Literature

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Bengal Renaissance

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Black Arts Movement

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Black Mountain Poets

Modernism and Its Currents

Bloomsbury Group

Modernism and Its Currents

Cavalier Poets

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Chhayavaad

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Confessional Poetry

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Costumbrismo

Realist and Naturalist Movements

Créolité

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Cubo-Futurism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Dadaism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Dark Romanticism

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Decadent Movement

Symbolist and Aesthetic Movements

Dolce Stil Novo

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Ego-Futurism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Euphuism

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Existentialism

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Futurism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

German Literary Expressionism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Gruppe 47

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Haskalah

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Imaginism (Russian)

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Imagism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Irish Literary Revival

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Italian Neorealism (Literature)

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Language Poetry

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Lost Generation

Modernism and Its Currents

Magical Realism

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Mannerism (Literary)

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Metaphysical Poetry

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Misty Poetry

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Modernism

Modernism and Its Currents

Modernismo (Spanish American)

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Nahda

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Naturalism

Realist and Naturalist Movements

Negritude

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Neoclassicism

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

New Culture Movement

Postcolonial and Global Movements

New York School (Poetry)

Modernism and Its Currents

Nouveau Roman

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

OBERIU

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Objectivism (Poetry)

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Parnassianism

Symbolist and Aesthetic Movements

Postcolonial Literature

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Postmodernism

Modernism and Its Currents

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Progressive Writers' Movement

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Realism

Realist and Naturalist Movements

Romanticism

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Russian Symbolism

Symbolist and Aesthetic Movements

Scottish Renaissance

Modernism and Its Currents

Social Realism

Realist and Naturalist Movements

Southern Agrarians

Modernism and Its Currents

Sturm und Drang

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

Surrealism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Symbolism

Symbolist and Aesthetic Movements

Tanzimat Literature

Realist and Naturalist Movements

The Beat Generation

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

The Harlem Renaissance

Modernism and Its Currents

The Latin American Boom

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Theatre of the Absurd

Postwar and Existentialist Movements

Transcendentalism

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Ultraismo

Postcolonial and Global Movements

Verismo

Realist and Naturalist Movements

Victorian Literature

Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

Vorticism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Weimar Classicism

Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements
Sources
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Beat Generation (Wikipedia)
Contains: The Beat GenerationView the Source
Latin American Boom (Wikipedia)
Contains: The Latin American BoomView the Source
Negritude (Wikipedia)
Contains: NegritudeView the Source
Postcolonial Literature (Wikipedia)
Contains: Postcolonial LiteratureView the Source
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