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    Romanticism and Realism

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    Romanticism and Realism Romanticism: [pic] Francisco De Goya. “The Third of May 1808” Oil on Canvas - Imagination and emotion are more valuable than reason. The romantics championed the struggle for human liberty. They celebrated nature‚ rural life‚ common people‚ exotic subjects in art and literature. - Era: Industrial and French Revolutions - Technique: Dramatic scenes of nature or man and ideal landscapes. - Artists: Goya‚ Delacroix‚ Constable‚ Duncauson

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    The Fourteen Characteristics of Romanticism 1. Medievalism - looking on the past to a simpler lifestyle (the good ole days). ’’Written in the Close of Spring’’ by Charlotte Smith 2. Orientalism - (exotic locales) places that everyday people would not venture. Mystery - emotional stimulus. 3. Primitivism - belief that man was born inherently good. (Noble Savage - writing by people of primitive cultures - Africa‚ Native American) Society makes them bad. 4. Progress - Romantics were not against

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    style and structure‚ ideologies and unbridled optimism for society and mankind made way for departures from Romanticism towards a new movement; Modernism. Thomson Gale writes that Modernism can be "defined by its rejection of the literary conventions of the nineteenth century and by its opposition to conventional morality‚ taste‚ traditions‚ and economic values." (Thompson Gale). Literary modernism focuses on breaking away from traditional rules and conventions; to search for new perspectives and points

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    Baroque and Romanticism

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    com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/baroque.htm) An example of Baroque art is The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew . This painting is about what was going on in that time. The artist‚ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio‚ painted about what was going on in that time in society. Romanticism was big on individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect. Romantic artists were more interested in things like inner struggle and passion‚ not on things that were going

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    Modernism in Paul Rand

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    Modernism in Paul Rand Topic 1 Fabrizia Corsi Critical and Cultural Studies Dawn Correia (23rd April 2013) ‘Modernism’ is derived from ‘modo’‚ a Latin word which means “just now”( Philosophy Basics. n.d.). Modernism‚ in its broad explanation includes the different movements related to art in the Europe‚ initiating from the end of the 19th century till the beginning of 20th century (Design History Mashup‚ Philip S. ‚ 2008). These latest European movements developed

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    W.B. Yeats Poetry Analysis

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    Children In "Among School Children"‚ Yeats speaks to an upcoming generation that is too preoccupied with preparation. The philosophy of this work suggests that life prepares us for what never happens. Consistent with Yeats’ message in other works‚ it follows the dogma: ignorance brings innocence‚ whereas knowledge brings chaos. With acquired wisdom‚ consciousness produces a chaotic state within the individual‚ causing conflict within the soul and mind. Yeats’ main focus is ignorant bliss in this

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    Modernism Short Note

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    Question: Write a short note on Modernism with special reference to Literature Almost every generation of society has a habit of reacting against the past by declaring itself “modern.” This quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is a cyclical phenomenon. Modernism was a similar trend that spanned all of the arts and even spilled into politics and philosophy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Anyone who looks at the evolution of western culture must note a distinct change

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    Modernism kills humanity………. You who think the meaning of life is in the click of the keys on your laptop‚ the beep of your pager in the firm grasp of business’s opponents handshake. You who thinks life means clinching contracts or looking the best in your friends party. will you think the same for thirty‚ forty years? Wheeling for the breath in the death bed. which thing will give us comfort?.designer clothes stashed away at your back of your closet or the quiet satisfaction at the life well

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    Pre-Romanticism

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    Pre-romanticism - preceded by Neoclassicism (1660-1780) - 1660 John Dryden - 1780 – deterioration‚ Johnson died - Prescribed forms‚ language – all artificial William Blake (1757-1827) - London - After Neoclassicism - Earlier than other writers - Left London only once in life - Son of lousier - Self-taught ; painter‚ illustrator for a living - Attended Royal Academy if Arts (not wanting to succumb ro tules Sir John Reynolds who set the rules for painters‚ WB didn’t obey‚ left)4 -

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    Yeats Essay titles 2

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    blent… Into the yolk and white of the one shell.’ Discuss ways in which Yeats presents the tensions between youth and old age in ‘Among School Children.’ In your answer‚ explore the effects of language‚ imagery and verse form‚ and consider how this poem relates to other poems by Yeats that you have studied. A shudder in the loins engenders there/ The broken wall‚ the burning tower and roof/ And Agamemnon dead Discuss how Yeats presents myth in its relation to extreme human emotions in ‘Leda and

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