literary movement

collocation in English

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literary
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪt.ər.ər.i/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ə.rer.i/
relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We have yet to understand the implications of aliterarymovementdeformed and transformed by those it most seemed to oppose.
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In other words, there is both continuity and discontinuity from one literary work to another and oneliterarymovementto another, especially within the same tradition.
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Gogol himself seemed to be skeptical about the existence of such aliterarymovement.
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Modernism as aliterarymovementcan be seen also, as a reaction to industrialization, urbanization and new technologies.
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He was as one of the early leaders of the progressiveliterarymovement.
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Dawood was one of them who pushed forward theliterarymovement.
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Although not definitively affiliated with any particularliterarymovement, the magazine acquired its reputation by publishing short pieces of dirty realism.
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Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and other basic civilian freedoms were soon revoked after the government's attempt of destroying theliterarymovement.
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The modernistliterarymovementwas driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time.
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Crackanthorpe is usually associated with theliterarymovementof naturalism.
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He was one of the leaders of the progressiveliterarymovementof the 1950s and 60s.
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Modernisme was also aliterarymovement(poetry, fiction, drama).
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Naturalism is an extension of realism, and may be better understood by study of the basic precepts of thatliterarymovement.
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He has been called the doyen of the naveena saahitya chaluvali (the modernistliterarymovement).
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It was aliterarymovementthat broke with the social and committed literature of the period, and took a more dreamy and symbolic direction.
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His poetry spans several decades and transcended any particularliterarymovement.
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It played an important role in promoting theliterarymovementof the 1880s.
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Dalitliterarymovementalso gained strength due to the little magazine movement.
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Ostriker writes, that like everyliterarymovement, contemporary womens poetry in part perpetuates and in part denounces and renounces its past.
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