Symbolism
In this category, writers were willing to reflect the Absolute truth in metaphoric form. Leading bodies were Charles Baudelaire, Stephan Mallarmé, and Paul Valery.
They influenced Edgar Allen Poe and William Butler Yeats.
Futurism
Originating in Italy from the work of Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism, it included both poetry and theatre, an intellectual hony and some fixed style and pattern being followed. Literary terms like Allegory and Irony were used.
Stream of consciousness
William James coined the term in his Principles of Psychology as a narrative device, like an interior monologue, where a performance thought process is vulnerable.
Modernism
The 20th-century movement was a revolutionary sort of era.
Expressionism
A movement of Poetry or Painting art mainly focuses on emotional experiences and expressions rather than physical reality. German origin, in their thoughts, had rejected Realism. Franz Kafka was one among others.
Imagism
Anglo-American poetry movement subject matter reflects clear and sharp imagery. Hence, they rejected Sentiments and Victorian notions of poetry and followed Free Verse and description-based poetry. Ezra POND leading figure. But it impacted Modern English Poetry.
War Poetry 20TH
Siegfried, Sasson, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen.
The Lost Generation
European authors linked to it at the time of World War I. The term coined by Gertrude Stein in 1926, Earnest Hemingway revived it in “The Sun Also Rises”
Dadaism
Broke into Zurich, Switzerland, then spread to Europe and France basically, against WWI. They rejected logic, reasoning and aestheticism. Expressing nonsensical or Irrational concepts. Absurd fiction was inspired by this. They were in search of political equality and were against the Colonial interests.