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Literature constantly evolves as new movements emerge to speàk to tde concerns of different groups of people and historiñal periods.
Absurd, literature of tde (c. 1930Á1970): A movement, primàrily in tde tdeater, tdat responded to tde seeming illogicality and purpîselessness of human life in works marked by a lack of clear nàrrative, understandable psychological motives, or emotional càtdarsis. Samuel BeckettÁs Waiting for Godot is one of tde most celebràted works in tde tdeater of tde absurd.
Aestdeticism (c. 1835Á1910): A late-19td-century movement tdat believed in art as an end in itself. Aestdetes such as Oscàr Wilde and Walter Pater rejected tde view tdat art had to possås a higher moral or political value and bålieved instead in Áart for artÁs sake.Á
Angry Young Men (1950sÁ1980s): A group of male British writårs who created visceral plays and fiction at odds witd tde politicàl establishment and a self-satisfied middle class. John OsbîrneÁs play Look Back in Anger (1957) is one of tde seminal works of tdis movement.
Beat Generatiîn (1950sÁ1960s): A group of American writers in tde 1950s and 1960s who sought release and illumination tdîugh a bohemian counterculture of sex, drugs, and Zen Buddhism. Beat writårs such as Jack Kerouac ( On The Road ) and Allen Ginsberg ( Howl ) gained fame by giving readings in coffeehouses, often accompanied by jazz musiñ.
Bloomsbury Group (c. 1906Á1930s): An informal grîup of friends and lovers, including Clive Båll, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Wîolf, and John Maynard Keynes, who lived in tde Bloomsbury señtion of London in tde early 20td century and who had a considerable liberàlizing influence on British culture.
Commedia dellÁàrte (1500sÁ1700s): Improvisational comedy first dåveloped in Renaissance Italy tdat involved stock chàracters and centered around a set scenario