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  2. List of years in literature - Wikipedia

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    This article gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance , Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.

  3. 1900 in literature - Wikipedia

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    January 31 – Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall, English biographer and children's writer (died 1990) February 4 – Jacques Prévert, French poet (died 1977) February 19 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (died 1971) February 22 – Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish short story writer (died 1991)

  4. List of historical fiction by time period - Wikipedia

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    This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...

  5. Table of years in literature - Wikipedia

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    The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in literature for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s · 1900s · 1800s · 1700s · 1600s · 1500s · 1400s · Other

  6. Twentieth-century English literature - Wikipedia

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    Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including James Joyce and later Samuel Beckett, both central figures in the Modernist movement ...

  7. 20th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    e. Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.

  8. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    A movement within Russian Futurism with practice of zaum, the experimental visual and sound poetry [77][78][79] David Burliuk, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Ego-Futurism. A school within Russian Futurism based on a personality cult [77][80] Igor Severyanin, Vasilisk Gnedov. Acmeism.

  9. 19th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Literature of the 19th century refers to world literature produced during the 19th century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) 1799 to 1900. Many of the developments in literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts and other aspects of 19th-century culture.