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17 Cards in this Set
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Romanticism Waves
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2 Waves
-first was nobles like De Musset and Chateaubriand -regretted loss of Old Regime and belief in church and monarchy -2nd wave started with victor Hugo in 1830 w/ Harnani |
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Romanticism
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-preoccupation with past or future
-inability to confront the present -impossible love -nature as refuge against civilization -valuing individual -exploration of inner thoughts/feelings, nature mirrored emotions |
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Realisme
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-examine the present
-analyze society in anthorpological/socilogical way -DETAILS reveal larger picture -can be romanticism with ugly reality details |
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Naturalisme
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-more pessimistic and scientific than realism
-animalistic nature of society -sex, drugs, violence -words like sang and nerfs |
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Symbolisme
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-escape the present, but do not look to past or future, just invisible and unattainable realm
-language into magic formula -words like alchimi, magie, azure, and incantation -synthesthesia (mixing senses) |
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pre WWI
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-la belle epoque
-fairly prosperous and free from war, but dreyfus affair -points to political divisions and antisemitism |
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Chronological order of movements
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Romanticism
Realism Naturalism Symbolism Dadaism Surrealism La Négritude Existentialism Theater of the absurd Le nouveau roman |
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Victor Hugo
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-romanticism
-poem "demain, des llaube" that contains many romantic themes -notre dame de paris teaches french how to read architecture and value past rather than blindly accept the "Paris de platre" |
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Gustave Flaubert
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-realism
-Mme Bovary is romantic heroin in realist novel. has her dreams smashed by harsh reality. -our scene, realist details undermine any illusion of romanticism |
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Arthur Rimbaud
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-started with poety like le dormeur du val
-symbolist writer "voyelles" |
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Leon Damas
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-solde perspective of colonial subject to critize his opressors and to reveal own disgust at being a sell-out
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Leopold Senghor
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-"femme noir" praises africa as a woman that has shielded him in his infancy but that he has come to know and love through time. Images of light/dark are used to evoke mystery/ignorance (dark) or glory/revelation (light). The image of a pheonix suggests that africa can rise from the ahses, claim its own heritage, and regain hope
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Gabrielle Roy
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la detress de l'enchantement
marganilized french canadain -it is her role to learn english, but evena s an adult she feels marganilzed |
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Dadaism
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WWI attrocities of war
-anti-bougeoisie, anit-art, anti movement -didn't last long |
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Surrealism
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1924 Manifeste du Surrealisme.
-wanted to explore hidden realities that may be more real that reality |
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La Negritude
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1930s
pro black, anti colonial founded by colonial subject (Senghor and Cesaire |
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Existentialism
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focuses on present, rejects hope as destructive (future), and rejects god
-antigone |