Part (4 1) literary movements

1. Literary
Movements
Section (1)
Part (4)

2. Major Literary Movements
1- Neoclassicism
• (c. 1660–1798)
2- Romanticism
• (c. 1798–1832)
3- Realism
• (c. 1830–1900)
4- Naturalism
• (c. 1865–1900)

3. Main
Literary
Movements
Surrealism
Symbolists
Aestheticism
Gothic fiction
Magic realism
Metaphysical poets
Literature of the Absurd
Angry Young Men
Lost Generation

4. Neoclassicism
Romanticism

5. Neoclassicism
• Read the introduction page (48) and answer:-
1. What is the date of the beginning of Neoclassicism?
2. What is the event of the end of Neoclassicism?
3. What are the periods of Neoclassicism?
4. How did the writers of Neoclassicism derive their
esthetic values?
5. What are the main values of Neoclassicism?

6. Neoclassicism
• Neoclassicism (c. 1660–1798) is a major literary
movement. It is inspired by the rediscovery of classical
works of ancient Greece and Rome that emphasized
balance, restraint, and order. Neoclassicism roughly
coincided with the Enlightenment, which espoused reason
over passion.

7. Neoclassicism
Major writer are
Edmund Burke,
John Dryden,
Samuel Johnson, Alexander
Pope,
and Jonathan Swift.

8. Romanticism
• Read the introduction page (52) and answer:-
1. What is the event of the beginning of Romanticism ?
2. What is the period of end the of Romanticism ?
3. What are the political, social and cultural events that
accompanied Romanticism ?
4. What are the shift that Romanticism was one of its
features ?
5. What are the main characteristics of Romanticism ?

9. Romanticism
Romanticism (c. 1798–1832) is a major literary movement. A
literary and artistic movement that reacted against the
restraint and universalism of the Enlightenment. The
Romantics celebrated spontaneity, imagination, subjectivity,
and the purity of nature.

10. Romanticism
Major writer are Jane Austen, William
Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and William Wordsworth.

11. The Classic
Vs
The Romantic

12. Characteristics of Neoclassicism
It emphasis upon the classical values of objectivity, rationality, decorum, balance, harmony,
proportion, and moderation.
It adheres to the Aristotelian ideas of “Probability” and the “Unities”: action, time, and place.
The neoclassical writers reaffirmed literary composition as a rational and rule-bound process,
requiring a great deal of craft, labor, and study.
The neoclassicists tended to insist on the separation of poetry and prose, the purity of each
genre, and the hierarchy of genres.
Two of the concepts central to neoclassical literary theory and practice were imitation and
nature, which were intimately related.

13. Characteristics
of
Romanticism
Romanticism has an intense focus on human subjectivity and its expression.
It holds an exaltation of nature, which was seen as a vast repository of symbols.
It gives a great role to “imagination” as a more comprehensive and inclusive faculty
than reason.
The Romantics often insisted on artistic autonomy and attempted to free art from
moralistic and utilitarian constraints.
The Romantics exalted the status of the poet as a genius.
The most crucial human faculty for such integration was the imagination, which most
Romantics saw as a unifying power, one which could harmonize the other strata of
human perception such as sensation and reason.

15. Question
1. What are the Major Literary Movements?
2. What are the Main Literary Movements?
3. Compare between the “classic” and the “romantic” as two different styles of
poetry.
4. Write about:
1. Neoclassicism
2. Romanticism