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-isms & realism
-isms & realism coywalley
Term | Definition |
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rationalism | the belief that humans can arrive at the truth by using reason rather than relying on the authority of the past,on religious faith of intuition in the revolutionary period |
romantisism | a revolt against rationalism that affected literature & other parts of the arts ,beginning in the late 18th century & continuing through out most of the 19th century |
transcendentalism | a 19th century movement in the romantic traditions which held that every individual can reach ultimate truth through spiritual intuition which transcends reason and sensory expenses |
realism | a style of writing developed in the 19th century that attempts to depict life as it really is without idealism or Romanticizing it 1861-1914 |
naturalism | a 19th century movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life as if it were being examined exactly through a scientists microscope |