![]() ![]() The word “Gothic” derives from “Goth,” the name of one of the barbaric Germanic tribes that invaded the Roman Empire). Interest in the gothicGothic literature derives its name from its similarities to the Gothic medieval cathedrals, which feature a majestic, unrestrained architectural style with often savage or grotesque ornamentation.Enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque in nature.Love of nature/ Enthusiasm for the uncivilized or “natural”.The predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules.A current definition: a psychological desire to escape from unpleasant realities.Walter Pater thought the addition of strangeness to beauty defined the Romantic movement.Victor Hugo called Romanticism “liberalism in literature.” It freed the artist and writer from restraints and rules.The Romantic Movement: A movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics to the formalism of the preceding (Neoclassic) period. Parnell and Young ‘value of reason was replaced by value of the sublime’Įdmund Burke: Origins of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 1757: ‘ Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger.is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.’ Challenged certainties of human progress. Graveyard poetry –attacked certainties of classical/ Augustanism- saw the future and cosmos as far less comprehensible. ‘The Gothic past –rather than being a barbarian civilisation became viewed as the site of a national, democratic and civilised heritage.’ A need for vigour, grandeur and a return to the pre- Roman-English roots was given new value. English culture appeared European/ Frenchified, cosmopolitan and imposed. ![]() ![]() Alexander Pope – classical poets should express old truths in increasingly beautiful ways. Writer must maintain cultural defences against encroachment. Augusanism: barabarians forever at the gate. NeoClassic PeriodWell ordered, simple, pure, rules, limits. Add the definitions of the three key terms you were given in a a comment below this post. ![]()
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