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When modernism ends is debatable. Though The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature sees Modernism ending by c.1939, [4] with regard to British and American literature, "When (if) Modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred". [5]
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.
Paroxysmen (Paroxysms), opus 189, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II.It was dedicated to the Gentlemen Students of Medicine at Vienna University on the occasion of a ball held in the Sofienbad-Saal in January 1857.
This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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 ...
List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of Australian crime-related books and media; List of anonymously published works; List of autobiographies; Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication
Tuberculosis was a common disease in the 19th century, and it appeared in several major works of Russian literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky used the theme of the consumptive nihilist repeatedly, with Katerina Ivanovna in Crime and Punishment; Kirillov in The Possessed, and both Ippolit and Marie in The Idiot.
First edition. The New Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Al Alvarez, published in 1962 and in a revised edition in 1966.It was greeted at the time as a significant review of the post-war scene in English poetry.