Trending Literary Movements this month
The 100 most-viewed literary movements this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Romanticism.
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Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
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Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
7,378
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avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
6,936
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Beat Generation
literary movement
6,289
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ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
3,358
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Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
2,627
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Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
2,595
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Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
2,509
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postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
2,404
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Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
2,377
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Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through languag
2,302
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modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
1,877
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literary realism
literary movement
1,669
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naturalism
literary movement
1,218
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Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
1,112
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cosmicism
literary philosophy
1,089
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Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
1,029
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Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
852
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New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
736
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Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
677
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vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
661
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Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
625
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Dalit Panther
social organization
596
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Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
593
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Neo-romanticism
movements from the era of Romanticism
527
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Romantic literature
literature of the Romantic Period
434
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New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
433
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dirty realism
subgenre of literature
418
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Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
411
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Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
390
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Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
374
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Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
342
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Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
342
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Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
342
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parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
339
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Précieuses
art movement in literature
303
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Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
288
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Indigenismo
trend in social and political thought, visual arts, and literature in Latin American countries where Indians make up a significant part of t
284
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proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
268
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New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
266
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Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
264
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Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
264
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Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
261
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Catholic literary revival
1860-1960 movement in France and England
239
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San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
238
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Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
236
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Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
234
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impressionism
movement in literature
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Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
229
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Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
222
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Sentimentalism
literary movement
207
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New Narrative
literary movement founded in San Francisco in the 1970s by Robert Glück and Bruce Boone, aiming to represent subjective experience without p
202
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euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
201
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Latin translations of the 12th century
192
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Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
187
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Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
184
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Costumbrismo
art movement
176
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Spanish mystics
Early modern Catholic mystics
171
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scar literature
Chinese literature portraying damage caused by the Cultural Revolution; Chinese fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s that focuses on th
167
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Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
155
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Infrarrealismo
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
154
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Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
152
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visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
150
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The Movement
English literary movement of the 1950s
147
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Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
138
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Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
136
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La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
128
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Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
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hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
122
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Southern Renaissance
reinvigoration of Southern US literature in the 1920s–30s by authors such as W. Faulkner, T. Wolfe, C. Gordon, M. Mitchell
120
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Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
118
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Kailyard school
19th-century Scottish literary movement
104
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Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
102
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Augustan poetry
Roman poetry during Augustus's reign (27 BC-14 AD)
100
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Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
98
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Angry Penguins
art and literary movement in Australia
95
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Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
95
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Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
94
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Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
90
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Jindyworobak Movement
Australian literary movement
89
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verismo
Italian literary movement
87
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Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
86
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nadaism
Colombian counterculture movement
83
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Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
81
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McOndo
Latin American literary movement
81
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Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
81
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futurism
movement in literature
79
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imaginism
Russian poetry movement
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Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
75
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Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
74
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Zenitism
yugoslavian avant-garde art movement, from approximately 1921 to 1926
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Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
71
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Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
70
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Golden Age of Indiana Literature
Time period from 1880–1920
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Kristiania Bohemians
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British Poetry Revival
poetry movement
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Alliterative Revival
resurgence of poetry using the alliterative verse form in Middle English between c. 1350 and 1500
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Ego-Futurism
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers
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Cockney School
group of 19th-century English poets and essayists
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Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
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