literary movement
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtəˌrɛri ˈmuːvmənt/
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movimiento literario
- The Harlem Renaissance was a significant literary movement that celebrated African American culture and arts during the 1920s.
Examples
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Négritude was an ideological and literary movement that emerged among black francophone intellectuals, writers, and Marxist politicians in France in the 1930s.
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The various histories of the postwar novel generally agree that social realism existed as a definable literary movement in Spain for over a decade in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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They pay greater attention to the literary movement of the same period and its relationship to nationalism.
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It's also important to remember that TOOLONG was not just a literary movement but one that spans across several fields of thought.
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Another literary movement parodied in Misericordia is romanticism.
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He can therefore restrict the use of the term Realism to the nineteenth-century literary movement.
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Afrocentrism is more than an artistic or literary movement and more than a quest for authenticity through the history of a people, says Asante.
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Robbe-Grillet and the nouveau roman writers saw themselves as forming a literary movement that rectified this discrepancy.
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In spite of this proximity to the French literary movement, Brooke-Rose's own experimental approach is markedly different from the nouveau romanciers on some major points.
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What struck me in thinking of Surrealism in relation to Dada was the degree to which the former existed as a literary movement, tied to the culture of poetry and the book, and a rarified social world.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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A general change in what people think or do
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group or trend in literature' is directly and transparently built from 'literary' (concerning literature) modifying 'movement' (a group or trend). This adjective+noun compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase literary movement comes from a simple image: literary means about writing or books, and movement is a group moving together. Think of writers walking in the same direction with similar ideas and style, so today it means 'a group of authors with common styles or goals'.