literary renaissance
Written arts resurgence
A literary renaissance is a period of renewed creative energy and achievement in written works, typically following a time of stagnation or decline.
The term borrows from the historical Renaissance to suggest a flowering of talent, ideas, and cultural importance in a nation's or region's literature.
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary renaissance centered in 1920s New York.
Any notable resurgence of literary activity or quality may be described this way: Critics hailed the decade as a literary renaissance for Southern fiction.
- SonnetFourteen-line formal verse
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- HumanismMovement centering individual worth
- AllegoryStory representing abstract ideas
- Toni Morrison"Song of Solomon"
Langston Hughes · William Shakespeare · James Baldwin · Dante Alighieri · Romanticism · Virginia Woolf · stream of consciousness · Enlightenment · Symbolism · Realism · Miguel de Cervantes · Geoffrey Chaucer · golden age · John Milton · epic poetry · Beat Generation · Homer · Négritude
- Irish LiteratureJames Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Yeats, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett
- Bulgarian Heritagecultural revival, liberation movement, national heroes, revolutionary movements, independence movement
literary renaissanceDark Ages
Post-Roman European decline
anti-intellectualism · obscurantism · book burning · end of an era · philistinism
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