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单词 romanticism
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Definition of romanticism in English:

romanticism

noun rə(ʊ)ˈmantɪsɪz(ə)mroʊˈmæn(t)əˌsɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

    Romanticism was a reaction against the order and restraint of classicism and neoclassicism, and a rejection of the rationalism which characterized the Enlightenment. In music, the period embraces much of the 19th century, with composers including Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, and Wagner. Writers exemplifying the movement include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; among romantic painters are such stylistically diverse artists as William Blake, J. M. W. Turner, Delacroix, and Goya

    Often contrasted with classicism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is this embattled romanticism that surfaces in Orwell's text in the form of paranoia.
    • The strange thing about his enthusiasm was that it was for one of the great works of 20th century romanticism and by the greatest romantic writer of the century.
    • The nineteenth century brought romanticism and realism.
    • Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid.
    • Throughout his life he read voraciously about the great figures of European romanticism and symbolism.
    • Literary romanticism and cultural nationalism informed the historical consciousness of regional raconteurs like Hall who looked for American themes within the history of the West.
    • Her argument about romanticism - which is one of the primary thrusts of the book - is based on the period's celebration of inwardness and the notion of an essential authorial subject.
    • However, Symphony #1 holds up quite well to the Haydn and Mozart models, and the 2nd Symphony is close to being a masterpiece of early romanticism.
    • Though natural history does not privilege the individual moment of perception in quite the way that romanticism does, it does rely on a process of imaginative synthesis.
    • He exaggerates both romanticism's sense of the expansive subject and modernism's sense of the subject suspended within a complex web of signs.
    • In common with other early nineteenth century literature, Emily Brontë's novel contains elements of romanticism, gothic, and fantasy.
    • This involved a step from classicism towards romanticism - which was also a shift from civilisation towards barbarism.
    • Was it this, the sense of art as supreme sacrifice, which appealed so strongly to Western romanticism and the avant-garde?
    • As the natural art of commemoration, sculpture took heart from romanticism, which fostered the remembrance of piety, power, talent, loyalty, or valour.
    • I'm fascinated by the period of early romanticism, when the composers of the time continued to inhabit some classical conventions but work outwards from within those.
    • Marx detested romanticism, emotionalism, sentimentalism and humanitarianism of any kind.
    • British romanticism transformed the landscape aesthetic towards seeing mountains as sublime and picturesque.
  • 2The state or quality of being romantic.

    her sisters would temper that romanticism with a large pinch of realism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He also had a certain romanticism and thrill about him which made me feel breathless and like I was ten feet above the ground, floating in the air.
    • Maggie saw it, too, and with all the romanticism in a young woman's heart, she welcomed it.
    • ‘There was a romanticism about it and a mystery,’ he says.
    • It's got a certain romanticism, the radio does.
    Synonyms
    mawkishness, over-sentimentality, sentimentalism, emotionalism, overemotionalism
 
 

Definition of romanticism in US English:

romanticism

nounrōˈman(t)əˌsizəmroʊˈmæn(t)əˌsɪzəm
  • 1A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

    Romanticism was a reaction against the order and restraint of classicism and neoclassicism, and a rejection of the rationalism which characterized the Enlightenment. In music, the period embraces much of the 19th century, with composers including Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, and Wagner. Writers exemplifying the movement include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; among romantic painters are such stylistically diverse artists as William Blake, J. M. W. Turner, Delacroix, and Goya

    Often contrasted with classicism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Literary romanticism and cultural nationalism informed the historical consciousness of regional raconteurs like Hall who looked for American themes within the history of the West.
    • However, Symphony #1 holds up quite well to the Haydn and Mozart models, and the 2nd Symphony is close to being a masterpiece of early romanticism.
    • Throughout his life he read voraciously about the great figures of European romanticism and symbolism.
    • Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid.
    • The strange thing about his enthusiasm was that it was for one of the great works of 20th century romanticism and by the greatest romantic writer of the century.
    • This involved a step from classicism towards romanticism - which was also a shift from civilisation towards barbarism.
    • Was it this, the sense of art as supreme sacrifice, which appealed so strongly to Western romanticism and the avant-garde?
    • The nineteenth century brought romanticism and realism.
    • Her argument about romanticism - which is one of the primary thrusts of the book - is based on the period's celebration of inwardness and the notion of an essential authorial subject.
    • In common with other early nineteenth century literature, Emily Brontë's novel contains elements of romanticism, gothic, and fantasy.
    • Though natural history does not privilege the individual moment of perception in quite the way that romanticism does, it does rely on a process of imaginative synthesis.
    • British romanticism transformed the landscape aesthetic towards seeing mountains as sublime and picturesque.
    • He exaggerates both romanticism's sense of the expansive subject and modernism's sense of the subject suspended within a complex web of signs.
    • Marx detested romanticism, emotionalism, sentimentalism and humanitarianism of any kind.
    • As the natural art of commemoration, sculpture took heart from romanticism, which fostered the remembrance of piety, power, talent, loyalty, or valour.
    • I'm fascinated by the period of early romanticism, when the composers of the time continued to inhabit some classical conventions but work outwards from within those.
    • It is this embattled romanticism that surfaces in Orwell's text in the form of paranoia.
  • 2The state or quality of being romantic.

    her sisters would temper that romanticism with a large pinch of realism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He also had a certain romanticism and thrill about him which made me feel breathless and like I was ten feet above the ground, floating in the air.
    • Maggie saw it, too, and with all the romanticism in a young woman's heart, she welcomed it.
    • It's got a certain romanticism, the radio does.
    • ‘There was a romanticism about it and a mystery,’ he says.
    Synonyms
    mawkishness, over-sentimentality, sentimentalism, emotionalism, overemotionalism
 
 
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