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dataset:
  id: 69
  slug: literary-movements
  title: "Literary Movements and Their Characteristics"
  description: "Major literary movements from Renaissance to Postmodernism: key characteristics, representative authors, and defining works that shaped each era."
  category: Literature
  category_slug: literature
  tags: "literature,literary-movements,romanticism,modernism,realism,postmodernism,renaissance,enlightenment"
  view_count: 0
  created_at: 1778695229
  updated_at: 1778695229
data:
  movements
    [6]{name,characteristics,key_authors,historical_context}:
      "Renaissance (14th-17th century)",["Humanism and classical revival","Focus on individual potential and achievement","Secular themes alongside religious ones","Sonnet and blank verse forms"],["Shakespeare (Hamlet, Sonnets)","Dante (Divine Comedy)","Petrarch (Canzoniere)","Milton (Paradise Lost)"],"Fall of Constantinople (1453), printing press, exploration age"
      "Enlightenment / Neoclassicism (17th-18th century)",["Reason, logic, and rationalism","Order, balance, and classical forms","Satire and social criticism","Emphasis on universal human nature"],["Voltaire (Candide)","Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)","Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock)","John Locke (philosophical influence)"],"Scientific revolution, French Revolution, age of reason"
      "Romanticism (late 18th-mid 19th century)",["Emotion over reason; imagination and intuition","Nature as sublime and transformative","Individualism and the heroic outsider","Gothic elements; fascination with the supernatural"],["Wordsworth & Coleridge (Lyrical Ballads)","Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)","Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)","Edgar Allan Poe (Tales of Mystery)"],"Industrial Revolution backlash, French Revolution aftermath"
      "Realism (mid-late 19th century)",["Faithful representation of everyday life","Focus on middle and working classes","Rejection of Romantic idealization","Determinism and social critique"],["Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)","Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)","George Eliot (Middlemarch)","Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)"],"Industrialization, urbanization, rise of sociology"
      "Modernism (early-mid 20th century)",["Fragmentation and stream of consciousness","Rejection of traditional narrative forms","Alienation and disillusionment","Experimentation with time and perspective"],["James Joyce (Ulysses)","Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)","T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)","Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis)"],"World Wars, Freud, Einstein, collapse of old order"
      "Postmodernism (mid-late 20th century)",["Pastiche, parody, and intertextuality","Rejection of grand narratives and absolute truth","Metafiction and self-referentiality","Blurring of high and low culture"],["Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)","Italo Calvino (If on a winter's night a traveler)","Don DeLillo (White Noise)","Jorge Luis Borges (Ficciones)"],"Cold War, consumer culture, media saturation, post-structuralism"