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Description
Mind Map by Natasha Fix, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Natasha Fix
over 7 years ago
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ROMANTICISM
- originated in Europe toward
the end of the 18th century
(Germany: "Sturm und
Drang")
- Characteristics
- emphasis on intense emotion
and individualism
- glorification of
past/nature
- reaction to Industrial
Revolution (1820-1840)/Age
of Enlightenment (focus on
reason)/scientific
rationalization of nature
- heroic individualists and artists
- content of the art had to come
from imgaination of the artist ->
concept of genius
- distrustful of the human
world -> close connection
with nature is healthy -> inspiration for poetry
- favor of intuition and
emotion -> also Poe's
characters are dominated
by their emotions
- setting: obscure or
unknown place ->
timelessness
- ordinary speech
- Greek and Roman ruins
- rebellion
- sense and sensuality (not the mind)
- emphasis on intense emotion
and individualism
- Dark Romanticism
- literary sub-genre
- fascination with melancholia,
insanity, crime, ghosts, irrational
- self-destruction and human fallibility
- nature in a sinister light
-> Transcendentalism:
nature is universal, divine
- death, supernatural force,
loss of love, flawed society,
evils of human nature
- literary sub-genre
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