Toward a Theory of Romanticism

Peckham, Morse

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“…However, he found his way in his second book, though (omitted the semi-colon) he is not totally aware of its ending. In this regard, Morse Peckham(1962) describe this situation as the time when " A man moves from a trust in the universe to a period of doubt and despair of any meaning in the universe, and then to a re-affirmation of faith in cosmic meaning and goodness, or at least meaning"(p.243). In "Death of Colors", Sepehri lost his faith in the universe but he regained his faith in the "The Life of Dreams".…”

Section: Negative Romanticism In Sohrab Sepehrimentioning

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Sohrab Sepehri's Imaginative Voyage from Negative Romanticism to Positive Romanticism in his Cycles of Poems

Oroskhan

Zohdi

2014

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Romanticism extended to different countries around the Europe in eighteenth and nineteenth century. This school not only includes European countries but also countries outside the continent like Iran. Similarly, Romanticism developed some of its features out of Iranian contemporary literature. Sohrab Sepehri, the contemporary Iranian poet, has always been at the center of Romanticism investigation in Iran. Regarding Morse Peckham's view of Romanticism, this could be inferred that Sepehri has made a voyage from the "static mechanism" to "dynamic organicims". Sepehri's change of view causing this journey was his acquaintance with the Far Eastern mysticism. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate this phase shifting by focusing on its effect on his poems.

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Section: Negative Romanticism In Sohrab Sepehrimentioning

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“…"(p.238) Furthermore, Peckham (1962) discusses two different states that one experiences and how one is replaced with another. "Romanticism is the revolution in the European mind against thinking in terms of static mechanism and redirection of the mind to thinking in terms of dynamic organicism"(p.240).…”

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Sohrab Sepehri's Imaginative Voyage from Negative Romanticism to Positive Romanticism in his Cycles of Poems

Oroskhan

Zohdi

2014

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“…In this way, he maintained, romanticism as a literary movement tried to make sense of the hidden dimensions of modernity. Peckham (1951), another important name in romantic theory, defined romanticism as a cultural movement associated with the rise of a criticism of mechanical philosophy. In his view, romanticism represents a style of thinking associated with dynamism and vitalism, two cultural perspectives based on a diversified reality in a perpetual movement of change.…”

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“…Examples like these introduce renewed intellectual imagery to romantic science, changing the negative preconception of the impacts resulting from the romantic conception of life (Dettelbach, 1996;Frye, 1991;Ho, 1991;Nichols, 2004;Peckham, 1951;Riskin, 2002). Initially viewed as an "anti-scientific" or even as a "pseudo-scientific" movement, romanticism in science is currently acknowledged as a cultural movement which presented interesting critiques of the limits of Cartesian and Baconian sciences, especially those limits concerning the impossibility of an isolated "scientific reason" providing valid ideas on the "totality" of nature.…”

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Negotiating boundaries: Encyclopédie, romanticism, and the construction of science

Fetz

2017

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

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Natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been widely debated in the field of the social sciences. This paper explores the social negotiation of boundaries in the Encyclopédie and romantic science. Highlighting the importance of imagination and aesthetics to the scientific realms, we perceive a different comprehension of the scientific field through the empirical study of how scientific demarcation is constructed. Works by Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, and Humboldt illustrate how reliable science was performed through atypical scientific methods. After pointing out the links between literary, artistic, and scientific works, we then debate a series of changes that framed the scientific imagery of romantic and encyclopaedic sciences.

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“…In this article, Peckham tries to bring forward Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being as a monumental work for understanding the change in the thought of the mind. Then, he mentions the distinction between two dynamic and static mechanisms by saying that the shift in European thought was a shift from conceiving the cosmos as a static mechanism to conceiving it as a dynamic organicism [4,5].…”

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Negative Romanticism: An Exploration of a Sense of Isolation in Yushij's <i>Afsaneh</i>

Oroskhan

Zohdi

2016

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From its beginning in the academic studies during the later nineteenth century, Romanticism has provoked ongoing debates over the nature of its definition. Nonetheless Morse Peckham has satisfactorily settled this matter by indicating that romanticism has dramatically altered the way of thinking therefore it should be distinctively met. For this purpose, he proposed that dealing with the concept of romanticism necessitate dividing it into two concepts of negative and positive romanticism in which a transition is occurred from negative romanticism to positive romanticism however in some cases this transition may not become completed and is lead to the obscure origin of the sense of isolation among various romantic poets. To clearly illustrate Peckham's notion of negative romanticism, it is tried to explore Nima Yushij's Afsaneh who is known to be the most romantic poet of Persian literature. Based upon Peckham's notion of negative romanticism, Nima's sense of despair and isolation in Afsaneh is fully justified and it is highly suggested that Peckham's new perspective toward romanticism can eventually settle the conflicting views on the subject of Romanticism.

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Toward a Theory of Romanticism

Abstract: Can We Hope for a theory of romanticism? The answer, I believe, is, Yes. But before proceeding further, I must make quite clear what it is that I propose to discuss.

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Sohrab Sepehri's Imaginative Voyage from Negative Romanticism to Positive Romanticism in his Cycles of Poems

Sohrab Sepehri's Imaginative Voyage from Negative Romanticism to Positive Romanticism in his Cycles of Poems

Negotiating boundaries: Encyclopédie, romanticism, and the construction of science

Negative Romanticism: An Exploration of a Sense of Isolation in Yushij's <i>Afsaneh</i>

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