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| 6537856564 | classical | referring to ancient Greeks/Romans (~6th C BCE to 5th C CE), especially the art, architecture, and literature of the empires | 0 | |
| 6537858180 | Medieval Period/Middle Ages | period extending from the end of the Western Roman Empire (5th century) until the Renaissance | 1 | |
| 6537859150 | Renaissance | the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries | 2 | |
| 6537861502 | Elizabethan Age | a period associated with the reign of Elizabeth ! of England (1558 - 1603), considered a part of the Renaissance | 3 | |
| 6537863261 | humanism | a Renaissance movement emphasizing the importance of human existence and seeking knowledge and understanding of all matters pertaining to earthly, secular life | 4 | |
| 6537865101 | Enlightenment/Age of Reason | an 18th-century philosophical movement that valued reason (progress, science, democracy) and believe that the individual and society could be perfected | 5 | |
| 6537866713 | neoclassical age | Era (18th century) of a revival of art/literature characterized by classical ideals of reason, form, and restraint | 6 | |
| 6537869454 | romanticism | an artistic and intellectual movement originating from the late 18th century/early 19th century, characterized by interest in nature, emphasis on emotions and imagination, and departure from the attitudes/techniques of the 18th century | 7 | |
| 6537871374 | gothic | works characterized by a taste for the medieval or morbid; gothic novels (usually from the 19th century) feature elements of horror, supernatural, gloom, and violence | 8 | |
| 6537873255 | realism/naturalism | 19th century movement advocating the literal, objective portrayal of reality | 9 | |
| 6537874434 | Fin de Siecle | a French term meaning "end of century." The term denotes the last decade of the 19th century, a transition when writers/artists abandoned old conventions for new techniques/objectives | 10 | |
| 6537876789 | modernism | the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the art and literature of the 20th century; self-conscious break from previous genres | 11 | |
| 6537878948 | Lost Generation | a term used to describe the post-World War I generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayals and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war | 12 | |
| 6537881049 | surrealism | a 20th century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings and the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter | 13 | |
| 6537883685 | Harlem Renaissance | time in American history (1920s to 1930s) when African American literature, art and music, flourished in New York City | 14 | |
| 6537885545 | existentialism | a 20th-century philosophy concerned with the nature and perception of human existence. Followers often believe that the individual is alone in a godless universe and that the human conditions is one of suffering and loneliness. Nevertheless, individuals can create their own meaning | 15 | |
| 6537891665 | Theater of the Absurd | a form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development | 16 | |
| 6537893560 | postmodernism | period/movement (~1945 to present) which carriers modernist styles or practices toe extremes and/or rejects modernism for new approaches to art and literature | 17 | |
| 6537939453 | Beat Poets | group of American writers of the 1950s whose work strongly influenced the cultural transformation of the 60s. | 18 | |
| 6537940902 | magical realism | a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realist setting also a genre of Latin American literature form the 1960s in which magical themes were combined with realistic subject matter | 19 |
