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The Literary movments, periods, and styles are divided into their religeous categories

    These are to be reflected in the layout and architecture of our future cities.  Be they planetside, on a moon, or an asteriod.  The space craft produced by these cities/literary traditons are to reflect their authors or books.


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Buddhism


Confucianism


Christian

Aestheticism
    19th century european movment enphasizing aestecit values over social or moral themes.  Advocationg "art for art's sake," leading aesthetis imbued their work with a flamboyant, nearly hedonistic quality.  Charles Baudelair and Oscar Wilde were amoung the movment's most notable figures.

Angry Young Men
    A group of English writers, cheifly from the working or middle classes, who became prominent in the 1950s.  Their work, characterized by a bitter disillusionment with traditional English society, produced the figure of the antihero, one who rebels against the Establishment.  The group's leaders included Kingsley Amis and John Osborne.

Baroque
    Grandiose, ornate artistic style prevalent from the late 16th to the early 18th century.  Initialy associated with architectural forms, the term was later applied to the fine arts.  In literature, the baroque style emplyed dramatic motifs and strong emotions in an attempt to expand the artistic vision.

Beat Generation
    A group of American writers whose work expressed their alienation from the middle-class society during the 1950s and 1960s.  Lead by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, they disdained the convential values, focusing instead on self discovery through drogs, sexual experience, and exotic travel.

Bloomsbury Group
    A group of writers, artists, and intellectuals who held infromal discussions in the Bloomsbury, a section of London, throughout the early 20th century.  Although individual members such as John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), Letton Strachey (1880-1932), and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) were influential figures, the group produced no uniform moral or aesthetic principles.

Classical
    The period in which Greek and Roman literature flourished.  The works of Aeschylus, Dante, Homer, Ovid, and other classical writers generally displayed clarity, harmony, restraint, and rationality over ambiguity, extravagance, and a freee play of the immagination.

Classicism
    In a general sence, any literary style or movment that adheres to the principles of classical literature.  In English literatuure, the term refers to the reaction of 18th and 19th century writers to rmaticism.  See also neoclassicism.

Dadaism
    A European movement foudned during World War I and devoted to the neation of traditional artistic values.  Dadaists embraced nihilism, irrationality, and the absurd, often shocking their audiences.  Teh movement's leaders included Andre Breton (1896-1966) and Tristan Tzara (1896-1963).  Breton later broke with Tzara and founded surrealism.

Decadence
    A movment originating in 19th century France that emphasized the autonomy of art, the rejection of middle-class society, a sophisticated despair, and unconventional, often morbid experiences.  Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud were amoung the leading decadents.

Elizabethan
    Pertaining to the drama and literature produced during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603). The Elizabethan age saw the flowering of English literature, with its classical humanism, and dazzling achievements in drama and verse forms.  William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were notable Elizabethans.

The enlightenment
    An intellectual movment in the late 17th and 18th centures that sought the perfection of human society through applied reason.  Rejecting the convential religious authority its members postulated instead a rational unity of God, man, and Nature.  jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire were amoung its most influential thinkers.

Experssionism
    An early 20th century movement stressing individual expression and jubjective truth as opposed to conventional forms and objective reality.  Its followers used distorted imagery and narative compression to depict violen emotions and the workings of the subconscious mind.

Futurism
    A European movement (c. 1908-1920) advocating the abandonment of convential syntax and the uninhibited use of images drawn from teh age of technology.  Futurists exalted the speed of modern life and anticipated the dadaism by embracing the bizarre and the experimental.

Gothic
    In literature, the term applies to a specific form of the novel, popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, that featured supernatural horrors and violent events, often with a medieval setting.

Graveyad School
    A preromantic movement of 18th-century English Poets.  Its members adopted  a melancholy tone in their verses, which were usually set in graveyards or oter gloomy locations.

Imagism
    A movement in American and English poetry beginning about 1920.  Borrowing freely from foreign verse techniques such as the haiku and free verse, it demanded precision in the use of imagery.  Ezra Pound was influential within this movment.

Impressionism
    In modern literature, the term refers especially to poems and novels that focus on the author's or character's inner life and subjective impressions.  james Joyce, Thomas Mann, marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf emplyed impressionistic techniques, such as teh stream of consciousness.

Irish Renaissance
    A period of intense creative energy, beginning in teh 19th century, aimed at the revival of Ireland's native culture.  At the height of the movment, from 1900 to 1920, writers such as John Millington Synge and William Butler yeats turned to traditional Irish folklore and themes for inspiration.  The movement's influence continues to the present.

Jacobean
    Pertaining to the literature produced during the reign of James I of England (1603-1625).  The period was one of great social upheaval.  reflecting the times, English literature rejected Elizabethan optimism for a darker, more cynical view of human affairs.  William Shakespeare's greates works were written in this period.

Lost Generation
    A term coinded by Gertrude Stein to describe a group of expatriate American writers who came into prominence after World War I (1914-1918).  Their work was characterized by disillusionment with postwar society.  F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were amoung the group's notable figures.

Mondernism
    A 20th-century (c. 1910-1945) movment emphasizing a self-conscious break with past literary forms and the developemnt of experimental techniques and fres motifs.  The Iris Author James Joyce's use of interior monolgue and myth as a narrative structures typify modernism's concern with untried forms of expression.

Naturalism
    A late-19th-century and early-20th-century movement that rejected sentimentality, subjectivity, and preconceived notions of morality in art.  naturalist writers often chose their subjects from teh lower depths of society, viewing their characters' sordid lives or tragic fates with scientific detachment.  Thomas Hardy, Emile Zola, and Theodore Dreiser were amoung the leading naturalists.

Neoclassicism
    In European literature, the term refers to the emphasis placed on blance, restraint, clarity, and proportion in the works of late-17th-century and 18th-century writers such as Alxander Page, Jean Racine, Jonathan Swift, and Voltaire.

Parnasians
    Late-19th-century school of French poets.  Reacting against the emotionalism and subjectivity of romanicicms, they attempted to replicate the precision of plastic arts such as sculpture in their work.  teh objective poetry thus created was a precursor of the realistic novel and drama.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
    A group of poets and artist establised in London in 1848.  They asserted the superiority of nature in their work, rejecting formal or academic techniques in favor of sensual imagery and religious symbolism.  Algenon Swinburne was one of its leaders.

Realism
    Movement originatin in the early 19th century that portrayed the details o feveryday life in factual, objective language and without idealization.  The author sought to let the story tell itself, devoid of sentiment and thematic manipulation.  Honore de Balzac, Gustave Falubert, and Henrik Ibsen wrote in this manner.

Renaissance
    From the French word for "rebirth."  It pertains to the literature produced in Europe from the mid-14th to the end of the 16th century.  marked by a revival in classical values and learning, the period witnessed an outburst of creative activity unmatched int eh history of wester culture.  Miguel de Cervantes,, Francois Rabelais, and William Shakespear were amoung the leading figures of the period.

Romaticism
    Movment originating in the 18th century Europe as a reaction to neoclassicism.  Romatic works typically emphasized intense emotions, sensual imagery, and individualism and often featured lurid themes and sensational plots.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Johann Goeth, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are usually associated with this movement.

Socialist realism
    A state mandated literary style that writers were obligated to follow in the former Soviet union (c. 1932-1990).  Under this doctrine, all literary works were to display the steady progress of Soviet Society toward acheiving the goals of socialism.  In practice, it was a tool by which the state could control freedom of epression.

Sturm and Drang
    German phrase meaning "storm and stress."  Nationalistic, 18th-century German movement emphasizing story lines, turbulent emotions, and the individual's revolt against society.  Johann Goethe's early work was written in this fashion.

Surrealism
    A movement founded in France in teh 1920s.  It attempted to express the workings of the subconscious mind through automatic writing and irrational, often juxtaposed imagery.  Andre Breton was the movement's principal architect.

Symbolism
    A European movement originating with French petry in the late 19th century.  It sacrificed objective representation and realistic narrative techniques in favor of a pattern of images or symbols that conveyed the aurthor's meaning.  Joseph Conrad, Arthur Rimbaud, and Virginia Woolf employed symbolism in their writing.

Transcendentalism
    A 19th-century American movment centered in New England.  it advocated a reliance on personal Conscience over the dictates of external authority or moral conventions.  Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were among its leaders.

Victorian
    Pertaining to the drama and literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria of England (1837-1901).  although associated with strict codes of moral conduct and social stagnation, the age witnessed a crisis in religious faith and glowing social unrest.  Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde produced much of their greatest work during this period.


Hinduism

Vedas, the sacred texts

Bhagavad Gita

Upanishads


Islam

Adab

Abbasid Period

Hadith

Maqamat

Muslem Spain

Qasidah

Quranic exegesis

Sufi

Umayyad Period


Hinduism

Vedic


Judaism


Christian


Rosicrucianism


Shinto


Taoism


Zoroastrianism


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