Literary Trends and movements...

[laetitia_niah]

here's a nice topic to discuss...
What are the Literary trends and movements?

[mono]

Wow, that seems a very broad topic, when I think of it. I suppose it depends on which era, which country, and which genre of literature to answer the question.
For example, Italian Renassaince may prove nothing similar to French or Russian Renassaince literature. Truly, out of each country I can think of, much good literature has appeared; many Renassaince writers may include Dante Alighieri, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Victor Hugo, Benjamin Franklin, etc.
Considering trends of literature by era seems even more complex, as many trends existed simultaneously, but in different parts of the world (some even near each other). While the great Russian writers (Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolsoy, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn) struggled with publicating their works, transcendental thinkers (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence) in England and the east United States formed their works.
Genre in the discussion seems most suitable, there being many genres and styles of literature that all evolved from one another, existed simultaneously, and re-appeared during certain times.

[Shea]

I remember one professor I had was talking about trends and literature and describing it as a pendulum, swinging from one extreme to another. Don't ask me to apply it right now. My brain is fried from just taking a midterm.

[laetitia_niah]

its indeed very broad topic...
honestly, of all literary trend I am interested in, is the 19th century French naturalism and its influences.

[dumptruckrabbit]

what are they? theres millions of the bloody things.

[subterranean]

Agree with Mono there...too many factors/themes involved when you brought up such Q. I think literature is also form of expression of an era/generation. You can tell what really influence, most important events/people, values/norms, type society of an era/generation, thru literatures