Literary power

Literary current (also called trend or literary direction) - literary historian narrower than literary period. This is an evolving set of artistic, ideological, compositional and stylistic-linguistic features that appear in literary works at a specific historical time. The birth of such a power can be a conscious activity of the creators of literature (proclamation of a manifesto or formulation of a literary program), or may have the character of a discourse. The elements that make up the new literary direction are common ideas or a converging view of artists, similar poetics (understood as a way of organizing a literary work), common themes or literary motifs and preferred artistic means (linguistic, stylistic and compositional). There are five phases of literary development: the initial phase (the first manifestations or the discursive discourse), the offensive (when the current occupies a position co-existing with the current), the peak phase, the late phase (when the current does not bring new quality to literary and cultural life) and the phasing-out phase - often linked to the biological end of the literary generation.

In the epoch of modern literature, literary currents coexist with each other (eg, classicism and sentimentalism in enlightenment). Bibliography

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