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tragedy
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in drama refers to particular kind of play, the defintion of which was established by Aristotle's Poetics; in narrative, particularly in the Middle Ages, it refers to a body of work recounting the fall of persons of high degree; exemplifies "the tragic sense of life"; the sense is that human beings are inveitably doomed through their own failures or even the ironic action of their virtues; illustrated by Greek plays such as "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles
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pastoral
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a poem treating of shepards and rustic life; after the latin word for "shepard"; began in third century b.c. when Theocritus included poetic sketches of rural life in his Idylls; Greek pastorals existed in three forms: the dialogue or singing-match called the eclogue, the monologue, or the elegy or lament
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regionalism
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fidelity to a parituclar geographical area; representation of its habits, speech, manners, history, folklore, or beliefs. cannot be moved without major loss or distortion to other geographical settings i.e. Thomas Hardy and Wessex
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nature (romanticism)
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romanticists followed Nature; found justification for their enthusiasm for wildness in external nature and for individualism in human nature; romantics had a tendency to regard the primitive as "natural"--a conception that justified the disregard of rules and the exaltation of individual freedom
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romanticism
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a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that marked the reaction in literature from the neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of the preceeding period; arose gradually; Victor Hugo's Franco believed that romanticism is "liberalism in literature"; aspects of romantic movement include sensibility, primitivism, love of nature, sympathetic interest in the past, especially the medieval, mysticism, indivdidualism, romantic criticism, and a reaction against whatever characterized neoclassicism; abandoned heroic couplet in favor of blank verse, sonnet, and spenserian stanza; experimentalism encouraged; idealization of rural life, wild life
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pantheism
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a philosohpic-religious attitude that finds the spirit of God manifest in all things and that holds that wheras all things speak the glory of God, it is equally true that the glory of God is made up of all things; finite objects are at once both God and the manifestation of God; ardent faith in nature; the word was first used in 1705 by deist John Toland; plays important role in Christian and Hebraic doctrine; common in ancient Greece
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victorian era
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used to designate broadly the literature during the reign of queen victoria (1837-1901); more narrowly refers to complacency, hypocrisy, or squeamishness assumed to characterize Victorian attitudes; a certain prudery led to egregious exaggeration in costume, furnishings, architecture, and industrial design; pride in the growing power of England, optimism born of the new sicnece, the dominance of Puritan ideals, and the example of a royal court scrupulously adhereing to high standards of decency and respectability; writers were cautious when dealing with profanity and sex
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