Talk:List of literary movements

message: As currently constituted, this list contains descriptions of each movement.  These descriptions are tricky because so short and hence rather vague--I'm particularly uncomfortable with the current def. of modernism.  Here is a list of future possible inclusions.  If we're prepared to dump the descriptions and just have a list, I'll put a bunch in.  If not, we'll have to do them one at a time.
:Literary movements, culled (heavily) from Literature Online:
  Aesthetic Movement 
  American Romanticism 
  Beat poets
  Black Arts Movement
  Black Mountain School 
  Cavalier Poets
  Chicago Renaissance 
  Cockney School
  Confederation Poets
  Confessional Poets
  Decadent Movement
  Feminist Writers
  First World War Poets
  Gonzo  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.26.235.14 (talk) 04:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly is a daunting list, but I do think including short descriptions of each movement will make it a better entry. --~jared~ 19:37, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for further expansion 

message: This list mixes movements which created, defined and named themselvels with others we have created in order to insinuate that our own game of literary history has always been plaid.
One should bring the list into a chronological sequence and note who defined these movements. The "Augustans" make Swift and Pope form a "group" under very strange ideals. Both would have never done this. The metaphysical poets - no idea when this label appeared... --Olaf Simons 06:48, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you about objectivity, and I've added a sort of disclaimer based on your comment to the top of the list.  As for individual entries, the consensus has been that the annotations should be as short as possible (see the original deletion vote, linked above, as well as User talk:Chick Bowen and User talk:Dwbird2)—originally they were too much like mini-essays.  Yes, they should be in chronological order; I'll get to that at some point, but feel free to do it (just make sure the first instance of a linked term remains the one that's linked). Incidentally, the term "metaphysical poets" was originally used by Samuel Johnson, though he meant a somewhat different group; the modern definition is ascribed to T. S. Eliot. Chick Bowen 15:25, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Chronological order is a good point that I failed to think about.  I did this entry rather quickly and only wrote about the limited number of literary movements I was familiar with.  Chick Bowen aptly said that writing the short descriptions was tricky, and I tried my best to be objective, noting who defined the movements is an idea I wholeheartedly support.  I'll try my best to help and continue editing the article, but I suspect that as it develops I'll have less too contribute.  After all, I'm only seventeen and still a high school student. --~jared~ 19:37, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: An extremely interesting list, needs to be handled with objectivity

message: When I first wrote the entry I debated as to whether or not I should add surrealism as a literary movement.  When I couldn't think of any surrealist writers I decided against it.  A look at the surrealism article provides a few good examples of surrealism.  I don't see how a surrealistic novel could be put together though.  You can have weird experiences or an odd phot and say, "wow, that's surreal", but the structures necessary to make a novel readable don't seem to mesh well with the almost-gibberish concept of surrealism.  Just my two cents worth... --~jared~ 01:40, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In literature, surrealism is primarily a poetic movement, but there are certainly examples of surrealist novels, mostly in French.  In English, Virginia Woolf's Orlando is generally considered surrealist, as are some of the stories in Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade.  I'll add it to the list. Chick Bowen 03:55, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Surrealism 

message: :These are movements either drawn from or influential for literature in the English language.
So this article lists only English language literary movements? Then it should be at: List of English language literary movements. — goethean ॐ 20:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have added Indonesian and Russian. DayakSibiriak (talk) 03:28, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  English 

message: This list is woefully incomplete. It leaves out so much literature like science fiction and immigrant lit that has shaped this century and the one before it. I am not knowledgeable enough on the subject to do the page justice, but if there is someone who can, it would be much obliged.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.190.114 (talk) 23:01, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone know enough to complete this? 

message: The most important literary movements aren't confined within national boundaries. There would be merit in creating lists of movements for the literature of a particular language (some of the more obscure and minor things might not belong in this main list), but since literary movement redirects here, we should start with a brief explanation of what a "literary movement" is. I deleted the cautionary sentence that the list deals primarily with English-language literature, because that isn't entirely true and that isn't the real problem. The real problem is that it isn't global.
Also, alphabetical order is just about the most useless way that such a list could be organized. The list should be chronological, so that movements can be seen to grow out of or react to what came before, or to mark a deliberate break. A chronological order would also show what was going on at the same time in different literatures, when the list is properly globalized. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:14, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Better, the unlimited list of global as well as nitable national movs with national subschools of the glibal. No so much them. DayakSibiriak (talk) 03:42, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Globalize and reorganize 

message: Noticed Spiralism was the only movement in the list without an article page - currently working on it Springskies (talk) 06:12, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spiralism 

message: Many of the currents shown are avant-garde (a subtype of currents).  The qualification is bad and some references are scarce to *make valid* some current *new* of antiquity. Victor Gibby (talk) 19:54, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consistency 

message: Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. 2001:4455:14F:D900:89BE:820A:1FD0:6D08 (talk) 11:36, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  21st century literature 

message: Would someone be so kind and add an extra column with all the dates. Great addition to the article if you ask me Tiedren1 (talk) 06:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time