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Matthew Arnold and the Romantics
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Tragedy and the Younger Romantics
This thesis explores how tragedy was conceptualised in the Romantic period by focusing on the work of Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, and P. B. Shelley, and their contemporaries. It argues for the centrality of tragedy to the work of these writers, and to British Romantic literary culture. I contend …
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Poets of Freedom: The English Romantics and Early Nineteenth-Century Black Poets
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"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats
… prophecy in contradistinction to the first wave Romantics' aesthetic values and tenets. Over the course of this discussion, I look closely at Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Byron's The Vision of Judgment, Mary Shelley's The Last Man, and select lyrical pieces from Keats. Although Shelley in part …
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The Byronic Myth in Brazil: Cultural Perspectives on Lord Byron's Image in Brazilian Romanticism
… Nearly all of the well known Brazilian Romantics were not only influenced by him, but translated him. Their notion of what it meant to be "Byronic," however, differed from ideas held in Europe. The Brazilian Byronic hero was more extreme, macabre, and sentimental, lonelier, darker, and …
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Kant and religious passion.
… that decided Kant's fate in his fight with the romantics was his steadfast refusal to yield a place for religious passion in his moral thought. It was this subtle--often overlooked--trait that helped to stigmatize Kant's position as unemotional, unduly formalistic, and empty.
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"Die Willkuer der Ichsucht": Jean Paul's "Clavis Fichtiana" and the critique of German idealism
… of Kant's ideas. For the early German Romantics the most influential among Kant's successors was Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Much has been made of Fichte's speculative philosophy and its subjective foundations as being the major. factor that contributed to the unbridled subjectivity of the …
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Romancing the nation: the reconciliation of the individual and the collective in romantic nationalism
… the collective. However, in all those things the Romantics also focused on the importance of individuals: lauding historical heroes, the imaginative genius of the scholar, and the fulfilment of the individual through belonging to a community. It further argues that the Romantics were influenced by …
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Arnold and Pater on Wordsworth
… the excesses of the Romantic Movement and the Romantics' futile abhorrence of life; and he condemns literary criticism that does not teach men to dwell on excellence which in turn leads to perfection. Arnold constantly condemns mere Romantic expressionism and Romantic criticism because as he …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… also examines the relationships between the Romantics and the seventeenth-century poet, John Donne, proving that Romanticism and the metaphysical conceit both contain elements from the art of memory. The Romantics' affinity for memory also stems, in part, from the work of George Campbell, an …
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Romanticism in Print: Periodicals and The Politics of Aesthetics in Restoration Paris, 1814-1830
… particularly through the literary debate between romantics and classicists – the bataille romantique. The literary debates between classicists and romantics, with their conceptions of what was ‘French’ and what was not, became entangled with political debates between liberals and royalists, and …
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Marino Faliero : the function of digression.
… The thesis concludes that Byron seems unique for Romantics in both his heightened awareness of linguistic and psychological problems, as well as in his approach to them. This awareness makes Byron an anachronistic figure whose aesthetic seems more modern or even post-modern than Romantic.
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The Italianate Wordsworth
… has been devoted. Of all the first-generation Romantics, Wordsworth was the most influenced by Italian poetry and aesthetics. The roots of his passion for the Italian language stretch back to the earliest stages of his imaginative development and extend throughout his life. His voluminous …
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A Generic Approach To Confederation Romanticism
… thoroughly-examined influence of the English Romantics on these poets, this dissertation is organized in terms of the genres that best reflect both the Romantic influence and the achievements of the four poets: the commemorative poem, the return poem, and the greater Romantic lyric. Attention …
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… Catholicism as had been Novalis and the German Romantics, Tolstoj's works were most thoroughly shaped by German Idealism and the radical Protestant sects of the early nineteenth century. The poet's works are invested with a private mythology and a symbolic significance. The writer started as a …
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Gothic Views, Romantic Visions: The Spatial Dynamics of Modern Art and Literature
… art, and ultimately became the vehicles, for the Romantics and their successors, for defining more universal themes such as the relationship between man and society and the function of art and poetry in modern culture. To a large extent there was a mutually beneficial exchange, indeed a symbiosis, …
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The poetic self in the English ode, 1740-1820
… ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" are odes, and the Romantics, however experimental they may have been said to be, are very conscious of genre and very cautious about labeling their poems. In nine chapters I trace the poet's Self fashioning in the ode by pairing mid-eighteenth-century odes with …
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The Novel of Business and the Business of the Novel: W.D. Howells' Examination of Prosperity Archetypes
… by literary disputes between realists and romantics, and violent strikes between the labor class and the capital class.
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Den romantiska postmodernismen. Konstkritiken och det romantiska i 1980- och 1990-talets svenska konst
… not just refer to romanticism but are themselves romantics. The dispute on whether Billgren, Bengtsson and Book are authentic romantics or just using romanticism for another purpose extends beyond these particular artists. It gives us a picture of the positions vis-à-vis post-modernism in Swedish …
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