LITERARY MOVEMENTS: A COMPLETE ATLAS - Classicism through Digital Literature
Book 13 of The Literary Atlas Series Dr. Bismi Sainudeen
The definitive single-volume guide to every major literary movement in English - from Classical Antiquity to Digital Literature - designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students and aligned to UGC NET/JRF examination patterns.
What This Book Covers
Forty-eight literary movements across eight historical parts, each examined through a structured seven-section chapter format:
- Historical, social, political, and cultural context
- First principles deconstruction - what each movement rejected and proposed
- Defining characteristics with detailed explanations
- How to identify the movement in any literary text (essential for unseen passage questions)
- Key writers and representative works - full biographical profiles and in-depth work analyses
- Key critical terms defined and illustrated from primary texts
- 10-12 UGC NET/JRF pattern MCQs per chapter with full explanations, plus short answer and long essay models
The Eight Parts
- Part One: The Ancient and Classical Foundations - Homer, Sophocles, Aristotle, Longinus
- Part Two: Medieval to Early Modern - Chaucer, Langland, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell
- Part Three: Restoration to Romanticism - Swift, Pope, Defoe, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley
- Part Four: The Victorian Age - Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Wilde, Pater
- Part Five: Modernism and Its Variants - Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Hughes, Owen, Bloomsbury
- Part Six: Mid-Twentieth Century - Beckett, Larkin, Osborne, Pinter, Plath, Ginsberg
- Part Seven: Postmodernism and Theory - Rushdie, Carter, Achebe, Walcott, Heaney, Rhys
- Part Eight: Contemporary and Digital - McEwan, Ishiguro, Mantel, Adichie, Roy, Hamid
Comprehensive Back Matter
- Key Works Summaries - plot synopses and critical context for all major texts discussed
- Glossary of Literary Terms - 120+ entries, alphabetically arranged, each defined with textual examples
- Critical Frameworks Quick Reference - nine major critical schools (New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Feminist Criticism, Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, Ecocriticism), each with core method and three fully worked examples of applied literary analysis
- What Comes Next - a reading guide to all thirteen volumes of The Literary Atlas Series
- References and Further Reading - primary and secondary texts organised by period and movement
About the Critical Frameworks Section
Each of the nine critical frameworks includes three fully worked examples demonstrating exactly how to apply the framework to a specific literary text - from New Criticism applied to Donne's The Flea and Eliot's Prufrock, to Postcolonial Theory applied to Conrad, Achebe, and Rhys; from Feminist Criticism applied to Jane Eyre, Woolf, and Plath, to Psychoanalytic Criticism applied to Frankenstein, Hamlet, and Kubla Khan. These are complete model analyses, not summaries - they show students precisely how critical thinking is performed.
Designed For
- UGC NET/JRF aspirants - every chapter is structured around examination requirements; the MCQ banks, identification guides, and critical term definitions are calibrated to the NET/JRF pattern
- Undergraduate (BA) students - comprehensive coverage of every movement
