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The Baroque Literature Of Baroque Period

Posted on:2009-03-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245481005Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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The Europe's Baroque Time, the science had made the significant progress, the Capitalist economy obtained to develop, human's field of activity and the spirit had the long-term expansion, the world was opposite and dynamic, in which the society fell into ruin, the faith changed and lost. The Counter-Reformation obtained the artistic magnificent achievement-to be called "the Renaissance". "Thirty years' war" had the huge influence to European's spirit. Hedonism and Religious Mysticism appeared interweaving. The Baroque Time appeared this kind of situation, which religion and non-religion, the religious faith and the scientific spirit, Hedonism and the religious belief opposed mutually and also coexisted. The Baroque literature was the product of Counter-Reformation,development of the science and the developmental Humanism.The Baroque literature broke through the rules of the Renaissance Time, emphasized the change vigorously and changed the literature form. Writers were fond of perceptual expression, conceit, exaggeration and metaphor. The Baroque literature appeared"Conceptism", "Culturism" and "Metaphysical poetry".The religious theme still occupied the dominant position in the literature, " the life like dream " became the subject. Realism techniques obtained further strengthened, the writers paid attention to the character' innermost feelings .The Baroque literature had embodied the modernistic characteristic. Allegory theory was an original creation of Benjamin's Literary theory, through studying the German tragic drama in the Baroque period. T·S·Eliot , representative of the Modernism poet obtained "the revival" in the 20th century. The Baroque literature had the important influence to the Modernism literature.
Keywords/Search Tags:baroque, change, creation, Allegory, modernistic literature
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