romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Latin American romanticism was not only a literary school but a patriotic flag. From Wordnik.com. [Miguel Angel Asturias - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Influence and The Fate of Reading a certain form of romanticism is at once summarized and surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Levinson, our alienation from romanticism is an index of our modernity and hence our critical agency. From Wordnik.com. [Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism] Reference
For Levinson, our alienation from romanticism is an index of our modernity and hence our critical agency; for. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Suchwas Goethe (for all that he called romanticism a “sick - ness”); Herder for his new views of history; and. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
I will attempt to translate this one but need a little more time to sift all the romanticism from the sweetness of its flavor. From Wordnik.com. [Amor y romanticismo 3] Reference
In Bloom's and Quinney's conversation, romanticism is not so much the focus but rather a constant presence, signaled by references to Blake. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
And, thanks to its constitutive relationship to modernity, romanticism is invested in secularism, not least in those moments typically coded as. From Wordnik.com. [About This Volume] Reference
On at least one traditional understanding, at any rate, romanticism is but a short step away from a freethinking deism pitched toward pantheism. From Wordnik.com. [Byron and Romantic Occidentalism] Reference
He was most interested in German romanticism, but also looked at other members of the larger movement he referred to as the ˜Counter-Enlightenment™. From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah Berlin] Reference
Augusto's romanticism is criticized as an affectation, an imitation of fashionable mannerisms made popular by French novels, and as an excuse for his inconstancy. From Wordnik.com. [Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel] Reference
I do not feel qualified to articulate it and, as far as the general question of romanticism is concerned, I must leave the task of its historical definition to others. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
Where Abrams had sought in romanticism a cure for modernity, McGann revealed romanticism as a textual and historical moment marked by difference and ideological contestation. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
"Legacies of Paul de Man" is a most appropriate topic for a publication specializing in romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
Harmony) and an exemplary autobiographical account of the study of romanticism from the 1950s to the. From Wordnik.com. ['At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'] Reference
The new romanticism, which is exemplified by the dreamy poetry of Maeterlinck, was even less able than naturalism to produce. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
My difficulty is with the kind of romanticism which. From Wordnik.com. [On missing the point] Reference
Any kind of romanticism, of ideal ization, or quasi-mystical ardor is excluded. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE] Reference
But she ignored him, continuing, 'We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
It is a kind of romanticism, unfettered by clamoring masses, or, regulation. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
But, as a matter of fact, most 'romanticism' is of very inferior workmanship, nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod] Reference
"Maybe because there's some kind of romanticism in writing fan fiction," Duckie suggests. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
I hate what is called 'strong' poetry; that seems to me to be generally the coarsest kind of romanticism -- melodrama in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference
If Fred had said, "Come away with me," Esther would have obeyed the elemental romanticism which is so fixed a principle in woman's nature. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Waters] Reference
True, that can include being cynical and viewing the world through a nightmarish lens, but even that is a kind of romanticism by inversion. From Wordnik.com. [Storytellersunplugged] Reference
(or phenomena) we call "romanticism," but that they need to bail out of the plane periodically really to get the lay of the land. From Wordnik.com. [Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn] Reference
The part is tailor-made for Redford's brusque romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [A Lesson In Star Chemistry] Reference
His evocation of the Pakistani landscape bears the romanticism of an expatriate. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruits Of Tyranny] Reference
Some argue that the blindness to Palestinian blame is merely misplaced romanticism, not anti-Semitism. From Wordnik.com. [A Question Of Anti-Semitism] Reference
A bricks-and-mortar glimpse of Irish romanticism, "A Star Called Henry" is Doyle's most ambitious book. From Wordnik.com. [The Myths Of Rebellion] Reference
His philosophy was a radical Caribbean romanticism, surcharged with the Biblical cult of Rastafarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Marley's Ghost In Babylon] Reference
In fact, the critic and poet Randall Jarrell once argued that modernism is simply an exfoliation of romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [The New New Thing: Same As It Ever Was] Reference
As wild-child fables go, I'll take the unashamed romanticism of "The Jungle Book" over the pseudoseriousness of "Nell" any day. From Wordnik.com. [A Wild Child Revisited] Reference
Director Martin Campbell knows his way around a formula, never letting the tongue-in-cheek style altogether undermine the romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [Playing To The Crowds] Reference
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