"Literary Movements for Students is designed for students and researchers studying the specific works representative of various literary movements. New and updated entries provide in-depth background on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of its characteristic styles and themes. Approximately 25 movements are covered, including absurdism, Greek drama, modernism, science fiction/fantasy, surrealism and a new chapter on smaller and up and coming movements and literary schools"--Gale Web site

Contents include:

• Absurdism
• Beat movement
• Bildungsroman
• Classicism
• Colonialism
• Elizabethan drama
• Enlightenment
• Existentialism
• Expressionism
• Gothic literature
• Greek drama
• Harlem renaissance
• Humanism
• Imagism
• Magic realism
• Medieval mystics
• Modernism
• Naturalism
• Neoclassicism
• Postcolonialism
• Postmodernism
• Realism
• Renaissance literature
• Romanticism
• Science fiction and fantasy literature
• Surrealism
• Symbolism
• Transcendentalism
• Smaller movements and schools