Romanticism Flashcards

Flashcards about the Romanticism literary movement.

Romanticism

Artistic, cultural, and literary movement that emerged in England and Germany in the late 18th century and spread to other countries in Europe and America. It emphasizes the incredible, the dreamlike, and the implausible for artistic creation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author who helped originate Romanticism in Germany.

Brothers Grimm

German authors who helped originate Romanticism in Germany.

Alexandre Dumas

French author who brought Romanticism to France after the French Revolution.

Victor Hugo

French author who brought Romanticism to France after the French Revolution.

Edgar Allan Poe

American author who brought Romanticism to the United States.

James Cooper

American author who brought Romanticism to the United States.

Washington Irving

American author who brought Romanticism to the United States.

Mariano José de Larra

Spanish writer and exponent of Romanticism in Spain.

Enrique Gil y Carrasco

Spanish writer and exponent of Romanticism in Spain.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Spanish writer and exponent of Romanticism in Spain.

Francisco José de Goya

Spanish painter and exponent of Romanticism in Spain.

Esteban Echeverría

Latin American author who highlighted indigenism and the national past.

Andrés Bello

Latin American author who highlighted indigenism and the national past.

José Mármol

Latin American author who highlighted indigenism and the national past.

Individualism

Characteristic of Romanticism that exalts the figure of the individual as the center of creation.

Originality

Characteristic of Romanticism that seeks to establish subjective expression as the center of creative production.

Nationalism

Characteristic of Romanticism that exalts the values, history, and identity of a people's culture prior to neoclassicism.

Emotionality

Characteristic of Romanticism that highlights emotions, passion, imagination, and feelings over reason.

Rejection of Neoclassicism

Characteristic of Romanticism that abandons the traditions of the previous era and seeks to break with classical and academic norms.

Exaltation of the self

Theme of Romanticism that focuses on individualism and subjectivism in art. Man is interested in his interior, individual taste is taken, and not universal beauty.

Rebellious hero

Theme of Romanticism focused on the idealist, nonconformist, and dreamer.

Melancholy

Theme of Romanticism that reflects an internal breakdown.

Evasion

Theme of Romanticism that serves as a means of escape from a life of disappointment (hence the taste for the gothic, the exotic, and medieval ruins).

Love and death

Theme of Romanticism in which the romantic appreciates love for love itself but also remembers the finitude of life and proximity of death.

Poet as demiurge

Theme of Romanticism describing the poet as a creator.

Sturm und Drang

Literary movement created by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder that gave rise to German Romanticism with ideas such as individuality, the subjectivity of the artist, and emotionality.