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- proper noun 18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed
emotion , freedom and individual imagination.
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Examples
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That so many remained selectively interested in Romanticism is clear evidence of a persistent commitment to the historical outlook that keeps haunting the textual analyses as their bad conscience.
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Romanticism is the atmosphere of a soulful life, and civility and gracefulness create a deeper style of living.
Thomas Moore: The Cultural Warming of America Thomas Moore 2010
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Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism (2006) and
About This Volume 2008
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Just as one might say that "ah" inheres in as well as preceding the word "Mama," so, in this leading genre of Romanticism, is there always a phantasmal "Oh" embedded in the address of every odic shorthand "O."
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Romanticism is filled with such uncanny encounters with otherness (think of how many times something like the Specter of the Brocken appears in Romantic literature).
Introduction 2008
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Pleasures of Verse, Studies in Romanticism 40 close window
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The dialectical operations of the creative imagination in Romanticism locate Jung's notion of the unconscious within consciousness itself as what
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As David Knight notes, in Romanticism's time the sciences still "lacked sharp and natural frontiers," and disciplinary boundaries were as yet indistinct.
Introduction 2008
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Because of the nature of music, this sort of thinking doesn't necessarily imply any progressive timeline, either: there are still composers who find that the inherent conflicts in Romanticism, or serialism, or what have you, provide the appropriate drama for their expressive goals.
No problem Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Because of the nature of music, this sort of thinking doesn't necessarily imply any progressive timeline, either: there are still composers who find that the inherent conflicts in Romanticism, or serialism, or what have you, provide the appropriate drama for their expressive goals.
Archive 2007-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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