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| ====== Literature Q2P02 ====== | ====== Literature Q2P02 ====== | ||
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| + | ===== Testi ===== | ||
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| + | A new sensibility pag 250\\ | ||
| + | Early romantic poetry pag 252\\ | ||
| + | The gothic novel pag 251\\ | ||
| + | Romantic poetry pag 259\\ | ||
| + | Romantic fiction pag 264\\ | ||
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| + | Thomas Grey: | ||
| + | * elegy written in a country church yard | ||
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| + | Wordsworth: | ||
| + | * The solitary reaper | ||
| + | * She dwelt among untrodden ways | ||
| + | * Daffodils | ||
| + | * Composed upon Westminster bridge | ||
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| + | Coleridge: | ||
| + | * Death and life-in-death | ||
| + | * The killing of the albatross | ||
| + | * The water snakes | ||
| + | * A sadder and wiser man | ||
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| + | William Blake: | ||
| + | * London | ||
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| + | Mary Shelley: | ||
| + | * The creation of the monster | ||
| + | * Walton and Frankestein | ||
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| + | Percy Shelley: | ||
| + | * Ode to the west wind | ||
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| + | John Keats: | ||
| + | * La belle dame sans merci | ||
| + | * Ode on a grecian urn | ||
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| + | Jane Austen: | ||
| + | * Mr and Mrs Bennet | ||
| + | * Darcy proposes to Elisabeth | ||
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| + | Walter Scott: | ||
| + | * Saxons and Normans | ||
| ===== A new sensibility ===== | ===== A new sensibility ===== | ||
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| * The industrialization greatly influenced this movement | * The industrialization greatly influenced this movement | ||
| * People living in the city sought diversion and serenity, which only the countryside could offer | * People living in the city sought diversion and serenity, which only the countryside could offer | ||
| - | * Humility and elements of everyday life rather than elevated | + | * Humility and elements of everyday life rather than elevated |
| * New locations described: | * New locations described: | ||
| * Castles, graveyards, ruins (reminds of the past) | * Castles, graveyards, ruins (reminds of the past) | ||
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| * Thomas Grey - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | * Thomas Grey - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | ||
| * Edward Young - Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality | * Edward Young - Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality | ||
| - | * Blake anticipated Romantic poetry due to his involvement with social issues and his symbolism | + | * William |
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| + | ===== The Gothic novel ===== | ||
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| + | * The growing interest in individual consciousness reflected itself onto new genres of fiction. | ||
| + | * Strange and mysterious | ||
| + | * The fight between the forces of good and evil | ||
| + | * A desire to escape from an ugly global landscape | ||
| + | * Walpole was the first to designate the term " | ||
| + | * //Castle of Otranto - A Gothic Story// | ||
| + | * Features: | ||
| + | * Attempts to instill fear in the reader | ||
| + | * Exploring the sinister limits of the human mind, gore | ||
| + | * The Sublime | ||
| + | * Mystery | ||
| + | * Ancient, abandoned settings (abbeys, castles, dungeons, convents) | ||
| + | * Time of day: **night** | ||
| + | * Complex plots & narratives | ||
| + | * Supernatural creatures and monsters | ||
| + | * Gothic hero | ||
| + | * Ends up isolated for one reason or the other | ||
| + | * Perpetual exile (can be seen as punishment by a deity) | ||
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| + | ===== Romantic poetry ===== | ||
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| + | * The main category within late 18th century English literature | ||
| + | * The expression of internal feelings and personal experiences | ||
| + | * Beyond reason and rationality | ||
| + | * The individual over the collective | ||
| + | * Unconstrained individuals live in better harmony with the world | ||
| + | * The "noble savage" | ||
| + | * The poet is a " | ||
| + | * Brings attention to social issues and elevates freedom, beauty and truth | ||
| + | * Children are completely pure (not corrupted by civilization) | ||
| + | * Increased proximity to God | ||
| + | * Childhood is not a temporary phase or just a " | ||
| + | * Appreciation for the exotic (whatever is far away in space and time) | ||
| + | * A pantheistic vision of nature and God, and the source of happiness and thought, which directly fuels inspiration for poetry | ||
| + | * Choosing language that is most appropriate for poetry, by dropping preexisting aesthetic conventions and giving birth to new styles based on a need to let the inner side of the poet express itself through language | ||
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| + | ==== Generations ==== | ||
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| + | There were two main generations of romantic poets | ||
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| + | - William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Lyrical Ballad | ||
| + | * Tried to theorize poetry | ||
| + | * Splitting roles | ||
| + | * Wordsworth: has to write about beauty in the ordinary | ||
| + | * Coleridge: the supernatural, | ||
| + | - Bryon, Shelley, John Keats | ||
| + | * Conflict between the ideal and reality (disillusionment) | ||
| + | * Individualism, | ||
| + | * Bryon: cynical " | ||
| + | * Shelley: stubborn hope of Prometheus | ||
| + | * Keats: classical beauty | ||
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| + | ===== Romantic fiction ===== | ||
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