Literary movements for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literary movements
By: Ira Mark Milne, project editor
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Gale virtual reference library; Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 872
ISBN-13: 9781414437194
Subjects: History; Literature; Literary movements; History and criticism; Bio-bibliography
Description: Entries provide in-depth historical background information on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of each movement's characteristic styles and themes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Original: 2 v. (872 p.) : ill.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Absurdism; title: Beat movement; title: Bildungsroman; title: Classicism; title: Colonialism; title: Elizabethan drama; title: Enlightenment; title: Existentialism; title: Expressionism; title: Gothic literature; title: Greek drama; title: Harlem renaissance; title: Humanism; title: Imagism; title: Magic realism; title: Medieval mystics; title: Modernism; title: Naturalism; title: Neoclassicism; title: Postcolonialism; title: Postmodernism; title: Realism; title: Renaissance literature; title: Romanticism; title: Science fiction and fantasy literature; title: Surrealism; title: Symbolism; title: Transcendentalism; title: Smaller movements and schools.