From Romanticism to Tolkien

Question 1

The movement is identified as a “deliberate rejection” of…

Answer 1

Rationalism (rejection of science) and neoclassicism (revival fo classical style)

Question 2

The movement used the same key terms as English Romantics: “a literature that would celebrate…”

Answer 2

Nature and the Spirit, and above all else, the Imagination

Question 3

In the context of the “rise of…”

Answer 3

German nationalism

Question 4

Called themselves “romantic in honor of…”

Answer 4

the great medieval legends written in the vernacular

Question 5

It is “no suprise” that this vernacular tradition was identified with “Marchen… the German equivalent of…”

Answer 5

“fairy tale”

Question 6

“Volk” means…

Answer 6

folk (people)

=ethnicity

Question 7

The movement is part of the “_________ revolutionary” movement.

Answer 7

Conservative

Question 8

Also considered “fascist,” where “groups” are considered “essentially preformed by ______.”

Answer 8

blood

=inherited traits

Question 9

“Origins in the 19th Century”

a. “ The movement combined…”
1. “sentimental…”
2. “back to the…”

Answer 9

patriotic intrest in Germanic folklore

land (anti-urban, back to country)

Question 10

“national community came more and more to exclude…”

Answer 10

Jews