Contents: Introduction romanticism in the American Literature

CONTENTS:


Introduction …………………………………………..……..……2

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   Romanticism in the American Literature
   

1.1. Romanticism and its basic characters..….……………..………4
1.2. American Romanticism ……………………………………….10
1.3. Characters of The American Literature …………....................15
Conclusion ………………………………………………….…….21
Bibliography………………………………………………............22


Introduction
The actuality of the course paper
As literature travelled through the different movements, the effect of these movements started to be more witnessed in the literary works. One of the biggest influences was when authors shifted from all what was reasoning and real to the imagination, feelings and escaping to nature. These changes in literature did not stop only in themes or style of writing, but rather affected also the length of the literary works by making them smaller and more concise which helped introducing a new genre of literature known as the short story.
The Romantic era is a movement that spread as a soft wind through all different cultures and societies, French, Spanish, British and American, leaving behind a great influence on different fields such as Music, Art and, especially literature. This latter is full of different novels and literary writings.
The aim of the course paper
Through the study of Romanticism as a movement in literature, and by focusing on this era from the American scope, the huge influence of the characteristics of this period over poets and authors is witnessed. The way writers present their literary works creates a special relationship between the readers and the books; the wonderful choice of words together with the smart usage of setting and the detailed description of characters all help establish a specific imaginary world known as the story or plot.
The practical value of the course paper
Literature from the beginning of time passed through several different eras, each with its own characteristics that differ it from the other. Among these movements, there is Romanticism, the movement that placed intuition and imagination over reason. The analysis will follow the Formalistic Literary Approach, as an approach that considers close reading the key to understanding any literary work in which all the interpretations and necessary information are found in the text with no consideration of any external disciplines like historical and social once surrounding the literary text.
The structure of the course paper
In this chapter the focus will be on what romanticism is, especially in America, in addition to the darkness in society presented through literary genre known as Gothic Literature in both novels and short stories; and shedding light on the history of the short story by analyzing how this new genre turned from being a way of telling fairytales to be an established genre of literature.