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Romanticism
Romanticism Period of music history lasting from
c.1800–1910. It is characterized by the importance given to emotional expression and imagination, in contrast to the restraint and strict forms of the
Classical era. Orchestras expanded as composers experimented with unusual and colourful orchestration to express extra-musical influences. Leading romantic composers include
Wagner,
Berlioz,
Mendelssohn,
Schumann,
Chopin and
Liszt.
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Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity.
Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...between the great events of European romanticism and the origins of white Australian...is `romantic' and what kind of romanticism is involved? The literary mode which finds the exact nature of this romanticism to be most pressing is poetry...
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Inside and outside Romanticism.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender; Romanticism by Marc Redfield. Stanford: Stanford...long eighteenth century that subsumes Romanticism within non-Romantic literary-historical...period. Identifying something called Romanticism, always a risky enterprise (Arthur...
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Burke's higher romanticism: politics and the sublime.
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...over the "romantic"; he considers romanticism's ethical and political implications...Rousseau as his prime representative of romanticism and of all that is wrong with it, and...or for anyone with an interest in romanticism, not just in the English-speaking...
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Aesthetics, theory, and the profession of literature: Derrida and Romanticism.(Jacques Derrida)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; "DERRIDA AND ROMANTICISM": THE BRACE OF NOUNS THAT CONTRIBUTORS to this special issue of Studies in Romanticism have promised to discuss form a conjunction...thought because the phrase "Derrida and Romanticism" grants access to compelling questions...
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The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Kenneth Daley. The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin...cataloguers and websearchers--Romanticism, Pater and Ruskin--the volume...The operative criterion here is Romanticism, the virtues of which, it is...
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Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain. Philip W. Silver Nashville...more work about the poetics of Spanish romanticism, but one of those rare books which...contemporaries as the embodiment of romanticism--an extended commonplace that prompted...
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Moscovici, Claudia. Romanticism and Postromanticism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Moscovici, Claudia. Romanticism and Postromanticism. Lanham: Lexington...ISBN 978-9-7391-1674-6 Romanticism and Postromanticism undertakes an...for the continuing importance of Romanticism in the arts, even after modernism...
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Q or, Heine's Romanticism.
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...accusation of "Germanism" can perhaps be translated as a charge of Romanticism. (2) The charge of Romanticism as Germanism brings out a certain redundancy in German Romanticism, a doubleness that doesn't really say anything yet cannot be...
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Maureen N. McLane. Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population and the Discourse of the Species.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Maureen N. McLane. Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry...might have said, is literature. Romanticism, in particular, plays a crucial...might call literary humanism. For romanticism (to summarize somewhat schematically...
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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Humanities; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre. Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity. Trans...offers two central hypotheses: that Romanticism is best defined as a sustained and variegated...against capitalist modernity and that Romanticism has flourished since the second half...
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romanticism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
romanticism term loosely applied to literary and...18th and 19th cent. Characteristics of Romanticism Resulting in part from the libertarian...rules of classicism . The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and...
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Romanticism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
ROMANTICISM ROMANTICISM. According to most definitions, Romanticism begins sometime around or after 1789, the terminal date of this encyclopedia and the moment of the French Revolution. 1789 has been the key date in a good many historical narratives...
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Romanticism in Literature and Politics
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE AND POLITICS. Romanticism is perhaps the richest and certainly the most vexed of...as a later Romantic sui generis. In Germany, "early Romanticism" ( Fr ü hromanti ) meant the Jena Circle of Friedrich...
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German Romanticism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
GERMAN ROMANTICISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Romanticism, according to Thomas Mann, was "the most revolutionary...in his writings. If Freud was ambivalent with regard to romanticism, this may have to do with his disillusionment, during...
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Neo-Romanticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Neo-Romanticism. A movement in British painting and...to certain aspects of 19th-century Romanticism , particularly the ‘visionary...Brandt and Edwin Smith. The term Neo-Romanticism has also been applied to certain painters...
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