Literary Movements Flashcards
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Renaissance
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- 14th to 17th century
- the rebirth of humanism
2
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Neoclassicism
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- 18th century
- order and reason
3
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Romanticism
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- 18th to 19th century
- imagination over reason
4
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Realism
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-verisimilitude, or resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event even if it is a far-fetched one.
5
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Naturalism
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-extreme realism
6
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Existentialism
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-humans inadequate to explain complex world
7
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Magical Realism
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-begins real, gets weird
8
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Expressionism
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-objectify inner experience
