Neo-classical and Romantic Influences

Flashcards about neoclassical and romantic influences

Epistolary Novel

A novel told through a series of letters, often with a personal and confessional tone.

Picaresque Novel

A novel that follows the adventures of a roguish hero, often set against a backdrop of lower-class society.

Didactic Novel

A novel that aims to teach a moral or philosophical lesson, often expressing theories of education or politics.

Comedy of Manners

A play or novel that satirizes the behavior and social conventions of a particular social group.

Gothic Novel

A novel that includes the element of horror created by the use of apparitions, supernatural manifestations, chains, dungeons, tombs, and nature in its more terrifying aspects.

Renaissance Humanism

A focus on human potential and achievement, often drawing inspiration from classical antiquity, with MAN IN THE CENTER.

Medieval Quest for Self-Sublimation

A thematic influence involving the seeking of higher spiritual or moral states, such as the quest for the Holy Grail.

Medieval Temptation of Sin

A thematic influence exploring the attraction to immoral or forbidden actions.

Renaissance Hellenism

An admiration and emulation of ancient Greek culture, art, and philosophy.

Renaissance Sensuous Aestheticism

An emphasis on the enjoyment of beauty and sensory experiences as a path to knowledge and fulfillment.

Renaissance Religious Fragmentation

The division and diversification of religious beliefs and practices, particularly during the Reformation.

Neoclassical Society

Society seen as a mechanism in which human beings are (mechanical) parts for the whole device to run well.

Victorian Literary Medievalism

Use of medieval elements. Literature & art made use of medievalism--religious and secular.

Chartist Movement

The medieval Gothic style in defence of the Chartist movement: the 19th c worker should be a creative thinker, not a machine, a tool.

Inscape

For this unified pattern of essential attributes (often made up of various sense data) he coined the word ‘inscape’; and to that energy or stress of being which holds the ‘inscape’ together he gave the name ‘instress’.

Hebraism

Strictness of consciousness; obedience and proper consciousness; becoming conscious of sin (Medievalism).

Hellenism

Spontaneity of consciousness; see things as they really are; avoidance of sin (Renaissance )

Darwinian Theory

The Darwinian theory : man at the top of the animal kingdom. The British man- the conqueror of civilisations, the tamer of wilderness, the elitist leader.

Renaissance Utopianism

Man creating the perfect society. Examples: Thomas Morus’ Utopia (1516)

Carpe Diem

the world should be explored through the power of the senses so that the moment could be fully felt.

Renaissance Titanism

The Renaissance turns man into a creator, a Titan who dares challenge God, sometimes playing God.

Arts and Crafts Movement

Art movement of the last half of the 19th century that strove to revitalize handicrafts and applied arts during an era of increasing mass production

Pre-Raphaelite Movement or Brotherhood

Movement initiated in 1848 by three painters: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais