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Chapter 14: 17th – 18th Century

Chapter 14: 17th – 18th Century. 1. CLASSIC, CLASSICAL, & CLASSICISM How do classic and classical differ? What is classicism ? 14 th -19 th Century a . any creative work of, or bearing the value of, Greco-Roman literature ;

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Chapter 14: 17th – 18th Century

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  1. Chapter 14: 17th – 18th Century 1.CLASSIC, CLASSICAL, & CLASSICISM How do classic and classical differ? What is classicism? 14th-19th Century a. any creative work of, or bearing the value of, Greco-Roman literature ; b. any style or period of creative work related to Greco-Roman culture; c. The imitation or use of the style of Greco-Roman art and literature;

  2. 2.AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT What is the Age of Enlightenment? Emergence from ages of darkness ignorance into an age enlightened by reason, science, respect for humanity.

  3. 2.AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT How is enlightenment supposedly related to the American and French Revolution?The American Revolution signaled the initial attempt to put enlightened ideas into practice, as it encouraged attacks on European regimes then; the French Revolution while embodying the ideals, in its more violent stages, served to discredit the enlightened ideas in the eyes of many European thinkers and writers.

  4. 3.ROMANTICISM What are the features, origins & inspiration of Romanticism (1750- 1870) in literature? a. reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature. b. Original inspiration for the romanticism first came from French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau & German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as against classical conventions.

  5. 3.ROMANTICISM What are the great romantic themes in literature? a. Libertarianism-the desire to be free of tyranny & convention, by criticism of urban society; b. nature-Delight in unspoiled scenery, innocent life of rural dwellers, as transcendentalism in America later accepted; c. the lure of exotic and lastly d. the supernatural -disillusioned with rationalism, & rediscovery of older literature—folktales and ballads民谣

  6. 3.ROMANTICISM What were the backgrounds and the significance of Romanticism in art ？ a. trend to resemble fanciful medieval romances, with the taste for wild scenery, ruins, reflected in the aesthetic emphasis on sublimevastness, obscurity, and a capacity to inspire terror as against the beautifuldelicacy and harmony. b. Itsartistic freedom, originality, self-expression fill expressionism, impressionism, symbolism..

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