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Time period: Mid-20th Century to present. Defining characteristics: Focuses on the impact of colonialism, dealing with the legacy of empire and resulting cultural intersections. Themes often include identity, resistance, and the reclaiming of culture.

Time period: Late 20th Century. Defining characteristics: Critique of Structuralism that rejects rigid structures and systems of thought. Emphasizes deconstruction, subjectivity, and the relativity of meaning.

Time period: Late 19th Century to mid-20th Century. Defining characteristics: A break with traditional forms of literature, reflecting the disorientation of the modern era. Use of stream of consciousness and fragmentation.

Time period: Mid-20th Century. Defining characteristics: Focuses on the text itself, independent of historical context or author's intent. Analyzes the work by close reading, with attention to literary devices and form.

Time period: Mid-20th Century to present. Defining characteristics: Incorporates magical or fantastical elements into otherwise realistic settings and narratives. It challenges the boundaries between reality and imagination.

Time period: 14th to 17th Century. Defining characteristics: Renewed interest in classical antiquity, humanism, and a push towards modernity in thought and form.

Time period: Early to mid-20th Century. Defining characteristics: Founded on the theories of Sigmund Freud, works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur. It aims to express the workings of the subconscious mind.

Time period: 20th Century, particularly after World War II. Defining characteristics: Focuses on individual existence, freedom, and choice. It is the view that humans define their own meaning in life and try to make rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe.

Time period: Mid-20th Century. Defining characteristics: Intellectual movement across humanities that sees diverse cultural phenomena as being structured by underlying systems. Emphasizes the understanding of underlying structures that govern cultural productions.

Time period: 5th to late 15th Century. Defining characteristics: Religious and courtly themes dominate, with genres such as chivalric romance, mystery plays, and allegories.

Time period: Late 19th Century. Defining characteristics: Artistic movement focused on expressing emotions and ideas through symbolic images and metaphors, rather than literal description. Opposed the overt realism of the time.

Time period: Post-World War I. Defining characteristics: Term used to describe a generation of writers who came of age during or just after WWI, whose works reflect a sense of disillusionment and loss.

Time period: Late 20th Century to present. Defining characteristics: Creative works that incorporate digital technology into the literary production process. Can involve interactive storytelling, hypertext fiction, and the use of multimedia.

Time period: Late 19th Century to early 20th Century. Defining characteristics: An offshoot of Realism, it involves a more scientific and detached approach, portraying characters as products of environment and heredity.

Time period: Late 18th Century to mid-19th Century. Defining characteristics: Uses dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, and dread.

Time period: Mid-20th Century to the present. Defining characteristics: Skepticism about grand narratives and ideologies, blending of styles and genres, and playful use of language and form.

Time period: 1950s. Defining characteristics: British writers who expressed scorn and disaffection with the established sociopolitical order of their country. Their works are characterized by a cynical, bitter edge and feature protagonists who are usually lower-middle-class antiheroes.

Time period: Early 20th Century. Defining characteristics: A movement that sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. It is often represented through distortion and exaggeration.

Time period: Roughly 5th Century BC to 3rd Century AD, with a revival during the Renaissance period. Defining characteristics: Emphasis on harmony, restraint, and adherence to recognized standards of form and craftsmanship, often looking to the literature of ancient Greece and Rome as models.

Time period: 1837-1901 (during Queen Victoria's reign). Defining characteristics: Works reflect the complexities of the society, including the conflict between progress and poverty, and the strong moral and religious codes of the period.

Time period: Mid-19th Century to early 20th Century. Defining characteristics: Focus on everyday life and society, avoiding romanticizing or dramatizing subjects. Often includes detailed character development and social critique.

Time period: 1920s to the mid-1930s. Defining characteristics: Cultural movement among African Americans, emphasizing black pride and creativity. Works often confront racial issues and celebrate African American culture.

Time period: Late 17th Century to early 19th Century. Defining characteristics: Inspired by the classical art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Emphasis on order, logic, restrained emotion, and adherence to recognized standards.

Time period: 18th Century. Defining characteristics: Intellectual movement that emphasized reason, individualism, and skepticism. Literature focused on the pursuit of truth, challenging superstitions and traditional authorities.

Time period: Late 18th Century to mid-19th Century. Defining characteristics: Emphasis on emotion, individualism, and nature. Reaction against the industrial revolution and the rationalism of the Enlightenment.

Time period: Mid-19th Century. Defining characteristics: Originating in the United States, focuses on the goodness of people and nature. Emphasizes intuition, spirituality, and self-reliance.

Time period: Early 20th Century, around World War I. Defining characteristics: An art movement marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes; it used absurdity and irreverence to critique conventional art and society.

Time period: 1950s. Defining characteristics: Emphasis on spontaneity, open expression of sexuality, and rejection of standard narrative values. Associated with non-conformity and rejection of standard societal norms.

Time period: Late 20th Century. Defining characteristics: A style that is stripped down to its essential elements, offering a direct and unadorned narrative. Employs brevity and suggests rather than describes.