Classicism

First published in 1972, this book provides an overview of Classicism in literature. After an informative introduction to the term, it explores some of the periods and places in which Classicism has been prominent: the Italian Renaissance, England before and during the Restoration, Renaissance France and eighteenth-century Germany. In avoiding a rigid definition of Classicism, this book demonstrates its multiplicity and changeability across time periods, as well as its limits.

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Dominique Secretan

Summary

First published in 1972, this book provides an overview of Classicism in literature. After an informative introduction to the term, it explores some of the periods and places in which Classicism has been prominent: the Italian Renaissance, England before and during the Restoration, Renaissance France and eighteenth-century Germany. In avoiding a rigid definition of Classicism, this book demonstrates its multiplicity and changeability across time periods, as well as its limits.

Product details

• Authors: Dominique Secretan, Secretan Dominique
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.01.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781138283763
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28376-3
• Pages: 92
• Series: The Critical Idiom Reissued > 26; The Critical Idiom Reissued
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, Lope de Vega, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Renaissance Literature, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism, Restoration Period, Neoclassicism, Cambridge university, Samson Agonistes, romantic elements, French alexandrine, eighteenth-century German literature, French literary movements, historical perspectives on classicism, Closed Couplet, Heinsius, Guez de Balzac, Perfect Antiquity, Mental Developments, Bel Esprit, Poeta Nascitur, Early English Classicism, English Heroic Verse, Hamburgische Dramaturgie, Kafka’s Castle, La Princesse De Cleves, Augustan Classicism, Seventeenth Century French Literature, Madame De Rambouillet