4-513: The New Puritans was a literary movement ascribed to the contributors to a 2000 anthology of short stories entitled All Hail the New Puritans , edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne . The project is said to have been inspired by the Dogme 95 manifesto for cinematic minimalism and authenticity. The young writers in the anthology deliberately eschewed many of the devices favoured by
8-456: The members themselves, while other terms (for example, the metaphysical poets) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question. Further, some movements are well defined and distinct, while others, like expressionism, are nebulous and overlap with other definitions. Because of these differences, literary movements are often a point of contention between scholars. This is a tablelist of modern literary movements: that is, movements after
12-464: The pre-eminent British literary generation exemplified by Julian Barnes , Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie . The 10-point manifesto reads: The 15 contributors to the anthology included Geoff Dyer , Alex Garland , Daren King , Toby Litt , Tony White , Rebecca Ray, Simon Lewis , Ben Richards and Scarlett Thomas . Reviews for the book were mixed, with some critics confused as to the intentions of
16-682: The project. New Puritanism has not been espoused by any well-known writers since the book's publication, and the contributors have not collaborated since, although several of them contributed to the literary magazine Zembla (2003–2005). Literary movement Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies . Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by
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