صفحه 1:
Classicism
صفحه 2:
. * The Golden Age of Greece
Classicism
* The age of Cicero and Augustus in
Rome
* The Enlightenment periods of France,
England and Germany
* the periods most associated with Classicism are the fifth and
fourth centuries
صفحه 3:
Greeks : clarity
French : stressed reason and intellect
English : interest in form
German : not only to imitate but to surpass the
grandeur of the original classics.
صفحه 4:
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS
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صفحه 5:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe( 1749-
1832, has been called a shaping force in German literature
* He was a scientist, philosopher, musician and artist
™ Goethe's drama Faust is an important piece of Romantic
literature
= When hi was 16 he managed to write an epistolary novel in six
different languages( German, French, Italian, English, Latin and
Yiddish)
Some of his earliest works
Buch Annette
* Die Laune das Verliebten
* The sorrows of Young Werther
* Herman and Dorothea
صفحه 6:
Homer (c.750 B.C)
* The language of his works was a blend of lonic and Aeolic
* His Most important work was Iliad and the Odyssey
Jean Racine (1639-1699)
His first play was La thébaide, ou les fréres ennemis
Second play was Alexandre le grand
+ In 1689 he wrote the biblical story of Esther and biblical
drama Athaliah
Racine followed Aristotle’ s view that a cast of characters was
inherently more important than any one figure within a
drama
صفحه 7:
Vergil (19-70 B.C)
+ He used a classical Greek conventions in his works
Some of his + The Eclogues (37-42)
works
* Vergil’s Georgics. A treatise on
farming
* Aeneid
صفحه 8:
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
* Iliad
+ Andromaque + Medea
* Aeneid
* Faust
صفحه 9:
THEMES
History
+ According to Finley, the Greeks were interested in history but did not
take the pains that a historiographer would to report the past.
+ The literature of the time, was often to provide an explanation for a
current cult practice or ritual
+ the events of such historical accounts do not offer a context of time
or place
+ Faust and Aeneid are examples of this theme
صفحه 10:
Order
symmetry, continuity, refinement, harmony, and logic were all
characteristic classical writers would strive for in their works.
The unities are an example or an outgrowth of need for
structure and for order.
Poetics is an example of order
a play first must have a single plot with a beginning, middle,
and an ending.
Second, the action of a play should be restricted to the events
of a single day.
Finally, the scene should be restricted to a single location.
صفحه 11:
Reason versus
Passion
* Greeks loved to talk and listen
* The art of conversation fed the value the Greeks placed on the
process of determining the basis for an action, decision, or
conviction.
٠ The Greeks, like classicists who followed, feared the effects of
unrestrained emotion
+ Andromaque and Medea are examples of preferring passion to
reason
صفحه 12:
STYLE
Pastoral
٠ A pastoral is defined as a literary composition on a rural theme.
+ The convention originated with classical Greek poet Theocritus
during the third century BC
+ Ina pastoral, the characters are shepherds
٠ Vergil’s Eclogues is an example of this style
صفحه 13:
Tragedy
The tragic form is usually a drama in prose or poetry involving a
noble, courageous hero who due to a character flew brings ruin
upon himself or herself.
* Andromaque is an example of Tragedy
In this play's end either die or go mad as a result of their
passionate natures.
صفحه 14:
Epic
+ An epic is a long narrative poem dedicated to the adventures of a
hero
+ Hero is a person of great national, historic, or legendary
importance
+ Aeneid is an example of Epic
+ Aeneid is in some respects, an imitation of Homer's odyssey and
Iliad.
