THE CITY AS FIGURE OF DARKNESS, STRESS, SADNESS…

 

 

1.HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ASPECTS THAT KEEP THE MOVEMENTŕ Horte Pla Blasco

 

 

2.ROMANTICISM: DEFINITION

 

Romanticism marked a profound change in both literature and though. Romanticism according to Webster’s Dictionary, is defined as ‘a literary movement (as in the early 19th century Europe) marked especially by an emphasis on the imagination and emotions and by the use of autobiographical material’. Although this may be true, there is no single commonly accepted definition of Romanticism, but it has some features upon there is a general agreement.

First, it emphasized upon human reason, feeling, emotion and expression while emphasizing the love of nature, beauty and liberty. Thompson defines Romanticism as a ‘major literary and cultural movement’ that was inspired by the imaginations, inner feelings, and emotions of the romantics.

 

‘Romantic’ is a term that covers the most distinctive writers who flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th c, ‘Romantic’ is indispensable but also a little misleading: there was no self-styled ‘Romantic movement’ at the time, and the great writers of the period did not call themselves Romantics.

 

The rise of Romanticism

A movement in philosophy but especially in literature, romanticism is the revolt of the senses or passions against the intellect and of the individual against the consensus. Its first stirrings may be seen in the work of William Blake (1757-1827).

The publication, in 1798, by the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coloridge of a volume entitled Lyrical Ballads is a significant event in English literary history.

This volume, a watershed in literary history, presented a liberating aesthetic: poetry should express, in genuine language, experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination.

Romanticism can be seen as a revolution in the arts, alongside the political, social and industrial revolutions of the age: all spheres of human activity were undergoing great change. Wordsworth and Coloridge were among the first British poets to explore the new theories and ideas that were sweeping through Europe

Lyrical Ballads, with its publication in 1798, is classically considered to have marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature.

 

 

3. FEATURES OF ROMANTICISM ŕ Vicente Nebot Pardo

4. THE CITY AS A FIGURE OF SADNESS, DARKNESS AND STRESSŕ Jordi Palacios Boix

5. AND WHAT IS DARK ROMANTICISM?ŕ Carmen Bernabeu Sanvictorino

6. EXAMPLESŕ Javi Moreno Estruch y Carmina Peiro Domenech