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BritLit movements
Literary movements described in BritLit + terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Romanticism | A literary period active from the late 18th century until the early 19th century. It affected all of Europe. It's intentions were - freedom of self-expression - rejecting ordered rationality of Englightenment - personal experience and imagination |
| 2d Generation Romantics | The second generation of Romantics deserted the radical values. Wordsworth became a tax collector and Coleridge a conservative --> no longer working class. The new generation mourned Wordsworth |
| ode | elaborately formal lyric poem, always in serious tone |
| apostrophe | adressing a person that can't respond |
| pindaric ode | celebratory, poem of public praise |
| horatian ode | medetative, personal, rather then public |
| abolitionist | Anti-slavery association was founded in 1823. They wanted to outlaw slavery. Their main strategies were releasing ship prints and the "am I not a man and a brother" merchandise. Slave trade was abolished in 1807, Slavery itsself was abolished in 1833. |
| victorian Formats | three volumes, serial part for instalment, magazine serialization, affordable |
| realism | middle of 18th century. problems of ordinary people in unremarkable circumstances. |
| Byronic hero | boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. |
| gothic | loose set of convertions and recurring themes through 19th and 20th century literature. haunted, supernatural, stock characters, obsession with the past, curses and family lineage. |
| modernism | some kind of moral deterioration after high point of Modern Victorian era. Spiritual and moral perversity, weary contempt for social conventions |
| Astheticism | people who wanted to pursue the beatiful. Senses, personal responses to art and life. |
| Fin-de-Siècle Britain | 20th century, highpoint of British naval supremacy, colonial domination. also urban degradation, industiral, repression of women's rights, rising international tentions |
| The Georgian mode | main genre of poetry before WWI. Celebration of English landscapes. propaganda posters, referrals to King George. Tranquil, innocent. |
| Modernism & Avant-Garde | cultural responses to the perceived fragmentation of stable worldviews. very experimental & cosmopolitan. |
| Avant-Garde | embraces fragmentation, sees it as good. Seeks to destroy old certainties |
| Modernism | sorrowful about the loss of those sertainties, fears "the great divide" between high and mass cultute as death blow to Western society. Masses are threatening. |
| Realism | world is knowable & stable and we can acces it |
| vorticism | Founder Ezra Pound. Art should embody a whirling mass of energy. internal world and consciousness |
| the bloomsbury group | bohemian activists, "free spirits", very privileged backgrounds, shared interest in radical philosophy, art and politics. advocating for free love and queer sexualities. critical of capitalism and imperialism |
| existentialism | philosophy moves away from traditional concerns and becomes radically different. individual central, no core to our being. |
| absurdist drama | indefinite, unspecific characters. settings are stange and nondescript. loads of room for interpretation. dialogue in play does not progress, repetative actions. |
| postcolonialism | all the culture affected by the imperial proces from the moment of colonization to the present day. contesting and challenging ideas of imperialism. About mindsets, impact, shifts in attitudes about empires. |
| three ways to postcolonialism | 1. read cultural works by people from countries with colonial history 2. reading cultural texts produced by those who have migrated from countries with a history of colonialism 3. re-reading text produced during colonial period, often colonising nations |
| postcolonial melancholia | both immigrants and their descendants are unwanted and feared precisely because they are unwitting bearers of the imperial and colonial past |
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