U11 MODERN AESTHETIC AND POETIC THOUGHT

Question 1

Horatian main Loci

Answer 1

1. Docere delectare
2. Res Verba
3. Ars Ingenium

Question 2

Neoclassicism

Who founded L’Académie Française

Answer 2

Richelieu

Question 3

What book does Boileau write?

Answer 3

L’Art Poétique

Question 4

What author is the main modern? What did he write?

Answer 4

Corneille, Le Cid.

Question 5

Neo-classicism in England

Answer 5

Enlightment. The age of reason introby Newton’s Optics

Question 6

Neo-classicism in England

What wrote Alexander The Pope?

Answer 6

Esssay on Criticism (1711)

Question 7

Neo-classicism in England

What did Addison write?

Answer 7

“Pleasures of the Imagination”, The Spectator: Satire on how aesthetic pleasing is benefitial

Question 8

Pre-Romanticism

Answer 8

Focus on the individual and how subjectivity determines taste.

Question 9

Sturm Und Drag Movement

Answer 9

Influenced by Shakespeare’s plays, and Goethe and Schiller’s concept of beauty. Interested in challenging reality, so mimesis is replaced by EXPRESSION!!

Question 10

Romanticism

Answer 10

ingenium over everything. The primitive state with no education.
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800): Poetry book. Preface clarify the writing style

Question 11

Realism + Naturalism

Answer 11

Victorian novel. Focus on explainin human being through art. Again, art is an imitation.
Charles Dickens, George Elliot (industries, exploitation)
Realism is the transparent reality

Question 12

Modernism