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R to M
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dates of Romanticism | 1770-1850 |
| R was a Reaction to: | rationalism, objectivity, refinement, social posturing, middle-class materialism |
| R Invented: | Childhood and nature |
| Precedents of R: | Goethe; Schiller; Walpole; "sentimental fiction"; ancient poetry; |
| Themes of R: | Nature; childhood; unrequited love; exiled hero; individualism; self-fulfillment; growth through experience; liberty; dissatisfaction with (urban) society; the exotic |
| First Generation Romantics: | William Black; Robert Burns; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Second Generation Romantics: | Lord Gordon/George Byron; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelly; |
| Symbol | is "actually there" but has meaning |
| Implied/ Implicit Metaphor | Tenor is not mentioned |
| bound v unbound | intuitive v. abstract |
| tense/ creative metaphor | contradictions/ just a few, interesting, similarities |
| M is about | increasing productivity |
| Results of M | Integration; Nationalism; Secularism; Egalitarianism; Individualism; |
| Contributors to M | Darwin; Marx; Freud; Einstein |
| Themes of M | Disillusionment; Alienation; Deracination; Fragmentation; Identity Crisis; Nihilism; Impotence; Solipsism; |