Post-romanticism

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Post-romanticism or Postromanticism refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after the period of Romanticism.

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In literature

The period of post-romanticism in poetry is defined as the mid-to-late nineteenth century, [1] but includes the much earlier poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon [2] and Tennyson. [3]

Notable post-romantic writers

In music

Post-romanticism in music refers to composers who wrote classical symphonies, operas, and songs in transitional style that constituted a blend of late romantic and early modernist musical languages. Arthur Berger described the mysticism of La Jeune France as post-Romanticism rather than neo-Romanticism. [6]

Post-romantic composers created music that used traditional forms combined with advanced harmony. Béla Bartók, for example, "in such Strauss-influenced works as Duke Bluebeard's Castle ", may be described as having still used "dissonance ['such intervals as fourths and sevenths'] in traditional forms of music for purposes of post-romantic expression, not simply always as an appeal to the primal art of sound". [7]

Other notable post-romantic composers

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References

  1. Faith Lagay (August 2006). "Hawthorne's 'Birthmark': Is There a Post-Romantic Lesson for the 'Men of Science'?". Virtual Mentor . 8 (8): 541–544. doi:10.1001/virtualmentor.2006.8.8.mhum1-0608.
  2. Sybille Baumbach, Birgit Neumann  [ de ], Ansgar Nünning  [ de ] (eds). A History of British Poetry, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2015. ISBN   978-3-86821-578-6. Section 19: "Poetic Genres in the Victorian Age I: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's and Alfred Lord Tennyson's Post-Romantic Verse Narratives" by Anne-Julia Zwierlein  [ de ].
  3. Richard Bradford, A Linguistic History of English Poetry, New York: Routledge, 1993, p. 134. ISBN   0-415-07057-0.
  4. 1 2 Robert Milder, Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 41. ISBN   0-19-514232-2
  5. Stephen Heath, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 13. ISBN   0-521-31483-6.
  6. Virgil Thomson. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 268. ISBN   0-415-93795-7.
  7. Daniel Albright. Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 243–244. ISBN   0-226-01267-0.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Period: Late– Post-Romantic", Nolan Gasser, Classical Archives

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