100 Examples of Literary Currents

Literary trends

The literary trends or literary movements they are defined as such by presenting different characteristics that distinguish them from other literary movements or currents. Generally, it is the authors of the works themselves who find the characteristics that the works have in common related to formal and aesthetic issues.

Specifically the literary trends they have been written at a certain time and, consequently, influenced by the customs, forms and styles of each time. Although these can be observed in literature, their field expands and they can come to understand the arts in general, including painting, sculpture, architecture, music, etc.

There are several literary currents since these can last for many decades or remain for only a short period of time.

Examples of literary currents

Middle Ages Literature

1. Songbook of Baena
2. Songbook of Stúñiga
3. Coplas to the death of his father by Jorge Manrique
4. The Archpriest of Hita, the book of good love by Juan Ruiz
5. El Cantar del Mío Cid (11th century) (anonymous)
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6. The Count of Lucanor by Don Juan Manuel
7. The Book of Apollonius
8. The Marquis of Santillana
9. In the clergy mester written by clergymen
10. The matchmaker
11. The jarchas
12. Legends of the infants of Lara
13. Praise of Our Lady of Gonzalo de Berceo
14. Literary work of Alfonso X of Castilla

Renaissance literature

1. Beowlf (German saga)
2. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
3. The song of the Roldán (French saga)
4. The Lazarillo de Tormes,
5. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
6. Baroque or Spanish Golden Age literature
7. The Nibelungs (German saga)
8. Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
9. Poem of Mine Cid (Spanish saga)
10. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta by Francesco Petrarca Rerum

Neoclassicism

1. Moroccan letters from José cadalso
2. Two friends and the bear from Feliz María de Samaniego
3. The Pied Donkey by Tomás de Iriarte
4. The yes of the girls of Leandro Fernández de Moratín.
5. Fragment 1: Virtue and happiness of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.
6. Fragment 2: Love of life by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.
7. The cicada and the ant from Feliz María de Samaniego
8. the farewell to the old man of Juan Meléndez Valdés
9. The voice of the people of Benito Gerónimo Feijoo
10. The literary fables of Tomás de Iriarte
11. The two rabbits by Tomás de Iriarte
12. Anacreontic ode to dorila by Juan Meléndez Valdés
13. Ode VII of what is love by Juan Meléndez Valdés
14. Ode X of the riches of Juan Meléndez Valdés

Modernism: Realism and Naturalism

• Realism:

1. Juanita la Larga by Gustavo Courbet
2. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

• Naturalism

1. Tales to Ninon by Émile Zola
2. Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Caldos
3. Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Caldos
4. The Confession of Claude by Émile Zola
5. The burning question of Emilia Pardo Bazán
6. The mother nature of Emilia Pardo Bazán
7. The work of American artist William Baker
8. The evenings of Médan by Émile Zola
9. Marianela de Benito Pérez Caldos

Vanguardism: Expressionism, Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, Creationism, Ultraism, Surrealism

1. What a pity! by León Felipe
2. August 1914 by Vicente Huidobro
3. Real Ebony by Nicolás Guillén
4. The Bird by Octavio Paz
5. The Black Heralds of César Vallejo
6. Ode to Rubén Darío by José Coronel Urtecho
7. Poem XX by Pablo Neruda
8. Una Risa y Milton by Jorge Luis Borges

Existentialist Literature

1. The Man in Rebellion by Albert Camus
2. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
3. The Nausea of ​​Jean-Paul Sartre
4. The plague of Albert Camus
5. All men are mortal by Simone de Beauvoir

Feminist Literature

1. The Abel of Ana María Matute
2. The sad women's shelter by Marcela Serrano
3. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale
4. Fiesta to the Northwest of Ana María Matute
5. The Merchants of Ana María Matute
6. We who love each other so much by Marcela Serrano
7. So you don't forget me about Marcela Serrano

Science fiction literature

1. Isaac Asimov Foundation
2. The War of the Worlds by H. G Wells
3. Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
4. Journey to the center of the earth by Jules Verne

Contemporary American Literature

1. Denis Johnson Smoke Tree
2. Empire Falls by Richard Russo. The Time of Our Songs by Richard Powers
3. So we come to the end of Joshua Ferris
4. Central Europe by William T. Vollman
5. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
6. The infinite joke ', by David Foster Wallace
7. Cormac McCarthy's Highway
8. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
9. Lush Life by Richard Price
10. Bad Earth: People of Wyoming by Annie Proulx
11. Pastoralia by George Saunders.
12. What is the what by Dave Eggers
13. Thomas Pynchon's own vice

Contemporary Hispanic American Literature

1. Federico García Lorca's blood wedding
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
3. Mrs. Bárbara de Rómulo Gallegos
4. The world is wide and alien by Ciro Alegría
5. The Ernesto Sábato tunnel
6. Jorge Luis Borges fictions
7. The city and the dogs by Mario Vargas Llosa
8. The truce of Mario Benedetti
9. The deep rivers of José María Arguedas
10. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
11. Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez
12. Trilce by César Vallejo
13. Twenty love poems and a desperate song by Pablo Neruda