A literary genre is a type of writing. Genres are based on writing style, tone, subject matter, or length, especially in stories. They start with broad groups and are divided into more specific types.
Literary genres are groups that help sort literature, such as stories, poems, plays, and other types of writing, based on certain rules or standards. These genres share common features, such as similar themes, writing styles, recurring ideas, storytelling methods, typical settings, character types, and repeating patterns of how characters interact or events happen. They also have a predictable structure overall.
Neo-Decadence is a modern artistic movement that mainly focuses on literature but also includes other forms of creative work. Although it is influenced by the aesthetic ideas of the Decadent movement, it is also a response to other trends in modern literature and can be seen as a revival of the original movement. Generally, Neo-Decadence shares more similarities with avant-garde literary movements, such as Symbolism, Decadence, and Futurism, than with types of fiction like speculative fiction or horror, even though it is often compared to these categories.
Sastra wangi (also spelled sastrawangi; meaning “fragrant literature”) is a term used to describe a new type of Indonesian writing created by young women living in cities in Indonesia. These writers often address difficult topics such as politics, religion, and personal relationships. The movement began with Ayu Utami’s popular first book, Saman, published in 1998.
New sincerity, which is closely connected to and sometimes considered the same as post-postmodernism, is a trend found in music, art, books, film reviews, poetry, book analysis, and philosophy. It describes creative works that build on and move away from postmodernist ideas like irony and cynicism. The term was first used in the mid-1980s, but it became more well-known in the 1990s through the work of American writer David Foster Wallace.
Performance poetry is a type of poetry that is written especially for or when it is performed in front of an audience. It includes many different styles and types.
New Formalism is a movement in American poetry that began in the late 20th century and continued into the early 21st century. It encourages poets to use rhythm, rhyme, and storytelling in their work. This approach is believed to help American poetry compete with novels and become popular again with Americans.
Metarealism is a movement in Russian poetry and art that began in the 1970s and 1980s. It includes poets such as Konstantin Kedrov, Viktor Krivulin, Elena Katsyuba, Elena Shvarts, Ivan Zhdanov, Aleksandr Yeryomenko, Svetlana Kekova, Yuri Arabov, Alexei Parshchikov, Sergei Nadeem, and Nikolai Kononov. The term “metarealism” was first used by Mikhail Epshtein in 1981.
The Moscow Conceptualist, or Russian Conceptualist, art and literature movement started in the early 1970s in the Soviet Union with the work of Komar and Melamid, known as Sots art. This movement continued as a trend in Soviet nonconformist art through the 1980s. It aimed to challenge socialist ideas by using methods from Western conceptual art and art that reuses existing works.
Spoken word is a type of performance art where poems are recited aloud. It is a modern form of an old tradition, especially the Greek oral-formulaic tradition, which created some of the earliest works in Western culture. This art focuses on how poems sound when spoken, including the way a performer uses tone, pitch, and rhythm.