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| Postmodernism | Art period/movement | Italo Calvino |
Postmodernism literally means 'after the modern'. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law...
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| Architectural style | Umberto Eco | |||
| Film subject | Thomas Pynchon | |||
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| Magic realism |
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Book Subject | Orhan Pamuk |
Magic realism, or magical realism, is an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting.
used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The...
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| Literary Genre | Gabriel García Márquez | |||
| Media genre | Salman Rushdie | |||
| Jorge Luis Borges | ||||
| Mo Yan | ||||
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| Existentialism |
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Film subject | Albert Camus |
Existentialism is a philosophical movement which posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to it being created for them by deities or authorities or defined for them by philosophical or theological doctrines.
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| Book Subject | Jean-Paul Sartre | |||
| Simone de Beauvoir | ||||
| Franz Kafka | ||||
| J. D. Salinger | ||||
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| Oulipo | Italo Calvino |
Oulipo (pronounced oo-lee-PO) stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle", which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature". It is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians, and seeks to create works...
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| Romanticism |
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Art period/movement | Victor Hugo |
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social...
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| Literary School Or Movement | George Byron, 6th Baron Byron | |||
| E.T.A. Hoffmann | ||||
| Heinrich Heine | ||||
| Heinrich von Kleist | ||||
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| Dark romanticism |
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Literary School Or Movement | Edgar Allan Poe |
Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism, but did not entirely embrace the ideas...
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| Herman Melville | ||||
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||||
| Literary realism |
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Literary Genre | Honoré de Balzac |
Literary realism most often refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life...
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| Media genre | Leo Tolstoy | |||
| Theodor Fontane | ||||
| Theodor Storm | ||||
| Gottfried Keller | ||||
| Naturalism | Henrik Ibsen |
Naturalism is a movement in theatre, film, and literaturethat seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even...
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| Émile Zola | ||||
| Charles Dickens | ||||
| Gerhart Hauptmann | ||||
| Stream of consciousness | James Joyce |
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection...
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| Virginia Woolf | ||||
| Expressionism |
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Art period/movement | Georg Heym |
Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotion effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, architecture and music. The term often...
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| Georg Trakl | ||||
| Gottfried Benn | ||||
| Franz Werfel | ||||
| Baroque |
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Art period/movement | Martin Opitz von Boberfeld |
In the arts, the Baroque (pronounced /bə'rɒk/) was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.
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| Musical genre | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen | |||
| Andreas Gryphius | ||||
| Age of Enlightenment | Event | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
The Age of Enlightenment is a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century. The term came into use in English during the mid-nineteenth century, with particular reference to French...
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| Sturm und Drang |
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Art period/movement | Friedrich Maximilian Klinger |
Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature and music taking place from...
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| Literary School Or Movement | Friedrich Schiller | |||
| Johann Wolfgang Goethe | ||||
| Weimar Classicism |
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Literary School Or Movement | Friedrich Schiller |
Weimar Classicism (German “Weimarer Klassik” and “Weimarer Klassizismus”) is a cultural and literary movement of Europe, and its central ideas were originally propounded by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...
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| Johann Wolfgang Goethe | ||||
| Vormärz |
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Heinrich Heine |
Vormärz, or the pre-March era, is the time period leading up to the failed March 1848 revolution in the German Confederation. Also known as the Age of Metternich, it was a period of Austrian and Prussian police states and vast censorship in response...
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| Georg Büchner | ||||
| Biedermeier |
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff |
In Central Europe, Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 (Vienna Congress), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European...
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| Franz Grillparzer | ||||
| Eduard Mörike | ||||
| Symbolism |
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Art period/movement | Rainer Maria Rilke |
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
Symbolism was largely a reaction against Naturalism and Realism, anti-idealistic movements which attempted to capture reality in its gritty...
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| Literary School Or Movement | Hermann Hesse | |||
| Absurdism |
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Theater Genre | Samuel Beckett |
Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe ultimately fail (and, hence, are absurd) because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to humanity. The word "absurd" in this context does not mean...
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| Eugène Ionesco | ||||
| Latin American Boom |
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
The Latin American Boom (Boom Latinoamericano) was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. The Boom is most closely...
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| Gabriel García Márquez | ||||
| Carlos Fuentes | ||||
| Julio Cortázar | ||||
| David Viñas | ||||
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| Modernism |
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Art period/movement | James Joyce |
Modernism describes an array of cultural movement rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The term covers a series of reforming movements in art, architecture, music, literature and the applied...
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