After romanticism.9781433103520 After romanticism romanticism, term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent. Characteristics of Romanticism Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had . Eisenhauer, Robert G. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2008 210 pages $69.95 Hardcover Studies on themes and motifs in literature; v.98 PN701 Independent scholar An independent scholar is anyone who works outside traditional academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge. The status of independent scholar is often an amateur rather than a professional although this is not always a matter of choice. Eisenhauer points out that the similarities and links between American modernism
adj. 1. Of, relating to, or able to engage in imaginative invention. 2. Of, relating to, or being fiction; fictional. 3. Not genuine; sham. renegotiation of literary history. In five essays he brings the work of Capote to that of Novalis and Schlegel as an expression of Baroque mysticism mysticism (mĭs`tĭsĭzəm) [Gr.,=the practice of those who are initiated into the mysteries], the practice of putting oneself into, and remaining in, direct relation with God, the Absolute, or any unifying principle of life. , pulling in Shelley's Triumphe of Life for good measure. He further expands on Capote, the signifiers "Cristal and "crystal" and metahistory, then analyzes cinematic treatments of Rattigan's The Browning Version and their relationship to Aeschylus, Browning, Golding and Adorno as well as to the tyranny of "the same." Fellini's strange and far-reaching revision of a Poe story is his next subject, and he closes by examining the complexities of a translation of a poetic text by modernist Gertrude Stein. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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