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  2. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1848, primarily English movement based ostensibly on undoing innovations by the painter Raphael. Many were both painters and poets [38] Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti: Transcendentalism: From the mid-19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology [39]

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  4. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    The movement was born after the Cultural Revolution, mainly from the 1970s. Leading members include Bei Dao, Duo Duo, Shu Ting, Yang Lian, Gu Cheng, and also Hai Zi. [77] [91] [92] The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous ...

  5. Category:Literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Alemannisch; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Արեւմտահայերէն; অসমীয়া; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская

  6. Category:English literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "English literary movements" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... The Movement (literature) N. New Oxford Wits; O.

  7. Neoclassicism - Wikipedia

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    In English, the term "Neoclassicism" is used primarily of the visual arts; the similar movement in English literature, which began considerably earlier, is called Augustan literature. This, which had been dominant for several decades, was beginning to decline by the time Neoclassicism in the visual arts became fashionable.

  8. Metaphor and metonymy - Wikipedia

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    According to Freud's work (1900), condensation and displacement (from German Verdichtung and Verschiebung) are two closely linked concepts. [10] In the unconscious, through the dynamic movement of cathexis (charge of libido, mental or emotional energy), it is possible that an idea (image, memory, or thought) passes on its whole charge to another idea; Freud called this process "displacement."

  9. List of modernist writers - Wikipedia

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    The modernist literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. [2] It is debatable when the modernist literary movement began, though some have chosen 1910 as roughly marking the beginning and quote novelist Virginia Woolf , who declared that ...