The American Renaissance: A Period of Literary Awakening in US History, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica The American Renaissance: A Period of Literary Awakening in US History e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Periodo storico in breve THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE The American Renaissance period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War in which American literature, in the wake of the Romantic movement, came of age as an expression of a national spirit. The America Renaissance was inspired in the 1830s by the writings of Emerson and came into its own in the 1850s with such major works as Hawthorne ’s The Scarlet Letter , Melville ’s Moby Dick , Thoreau ’s_ Whitman ‘s They were a group of New England writers: aristocrats, steeped in foreign culture, active as professors at Harvard College, and interested in creating a genteel American literature based on foreign models. Contemporary with these writers but outside the New England circle was the Southern genius Edgar Allan Poe ( The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe). PURITANISM > HOWTORN AND MELVILL TRASCENDENTALISM > PRINCIPIO DELL'ANIMA UNIVERSALE CHE COLLEGA TUTTO DECADENTISM 1900 asa reaction against the utilitarianism and the moral restrictions of the Victorian Society . slogan “Art for Arts sake”, the aestheticism broke with the conventions of the time and gave free rein to imagination and fantasy. The early members of the movement chose to live and extravagant “vie de Bohème”: a life spent in the pursuit of sensation and devoted to the cult of art and beauty, sometimes marked by excesses, but always rich in creative energy. In painting, the Aesthetic theories led (ha portato) to impressionism, where the artists chose what they called “pure painting” where sentiment or moral judge were subordinated to colour and the pattern (modello) of light and shadow. decadentism was characterized by a sort of extremism, because the main traits (i tratti principali) of Aestheticism underwent a process of refinement (subirono un processo di raffinmamento) which developed until it got into the absurd, the distasteful (nel cattivo gusto) and the futile. Decadentists felt totally different from the mass and were attracted by the unusual. Decadentists found beauty even in evil and decay, according to the poems of boduler MODERISM TRA LE 2 GUERRE MONDIALI