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    A Dialectical Perspective on the Concept of Romanticism: Multiple Ideologies in an Infinitely Expanding Framework
    A Dialectical Perspective on the Concept of Romanticism: Multiple Ideologies in an Infinitely Expanding Framework
    A Dialectical Perspective on the Concept of Romanticism: Multiple Ideologies in an Infinitely Expanding Framework
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    A Dialectical Perspective on the Concept of Romanticism: Multiple Ideologies in an Infinitely Expanding Framework

    By Nicklas Skovgaard Petersen

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    In this book, I present and discuss a dialectical rethinking of the concept of Romanticism. The viewpoint on the concept has undergone a significant transformation since Jerome McGann first challenged the traditional definition of Romanticism.

    This perspective expands the framework of the concept by generating a forum for further study on the literary canon of Romanticism. Instead of defining the concept solely on the similarities of the romantic writers, this book aims to step beyond theoretical limitations and provide an approach to the study of cultural theory which creates a continuous and evergrowing synthesis of thought.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateJan 26, 2020
    ISBN9788743063414
    A Dialectical Perspective on the Concept of Romanticism: Multiple Ideologies in an Infinitely Expanding Framework
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    Nicklas Skovgaard Petersen

    This book is the first publication by the danish writer Nicklas Skovgaard Petersen.

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      A Dialectical Perspective on the Concept of Romanticism - Nicklas Skovgaard Petersen

      Romanticism.

      Chapter 1

      The Evolution of the Concept of

      Romanticism

      As the focus on the internecine nature of literary periods is essential to understand the dynamic landscape of the literary scene, the focus of this paper will be on the Romantic Movement, as it is a powerful example of a literary scene characterised by sharp cultural conflict and historical differences. The case of the meaning of Romanticism as a concept has gathered much attention in recent times because the classic definitions of the concept seem to be too immobile to alterations of canon when provided with evidence for the need to do so. Jerome McGann called for a radical rethinking of the concept in 1996 in his renowned essay Rethinking Romanticism where he argues that the known generalisation of the concept based on a presupposed canon that already anticipates the core of the phenomenon does not accommodate fully the vast array of possibilities that truly lies within the meaning of the word. This line of thought, has in recent decades opened up for a debate on a more open meaning of the concept, as the literary critic Seamus Perry has mentioned "The difficulty is not just knowing what it really means, but knowing even how to go about deciding what it really means" (Perry, ‘A Companion to Romanticism’, p. 3). The dominant perspective until recent times has been the mentioned generalisation of the concept where one presupposes a canon through a return to the already known Romantics and then one defines a concept based on their similarities. What McGann here suggests with his radical rethinking, is to no longer try to define the period, but instead to explore and map the endless possibilities of the concept.

      In order to open up for the possibility of such an exploration, Perry clarifies that one needs to resign one’s claims of history and start a new without the boundaries of a presupposed canon, and instead begin with a pure concept of ‘Romanticism’, a Platonic Idea, quite free of any empirical basis, and then let that concept determine your choice of canonical texts (Perry, p. 3). In this way, the Romantic canon is no longer fixed on the works of an already anticipated set of known authors, but it is open to gradual development when presented with new evidence which calls for a change in emphases or an expansion of canon, as Perry also believes to be an important focus point The canon of works may always be changed, with new works added, or emphases changed, for all kinds of reasons (we should not expect a general rule there); and the new evidence offered by the reformed canon will, in turn, alter the concept subsuming that canon; and vice versa (Perry, p. 4). There is therefore an interest in a rethinking of the concept, as the concept of Romanticism needs to be able to accommodate a mutable canon of works.

      Jerome McGann’s essay is, along with being a call for a rethinking of the concept, a critique of the comparative literary critic Rene Wellek’s notion from 1949 of a unified concept of Romanticism based on the similarities of the poets across the borders of Europe. In his essay The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History Wellek convincingly attempts to define Romanticism based on three central criteria, which he believed the Romantic canon of works have in common across Europe imagination for the view of poetry, nature for the view of the world, and symbol and myth for poetic style (Wellek, p. 193). He places his focus on English Romanticism and goes on to describe in detail the outlook of the English Romantic poets within the elements of nature, imagination and symbol with the purpose of convincing the reader that the common traits of the poets are similar enough within these three criteria that one can define the very concept of Romanticism as one European movement. He does acknowledge differences between various romantic movements, differences of emphasis and distribution of elements, differences in the pace of development, in the individualities of the great writers (Wellek, p. 204), but even with these vast differences he believes the romantic views of nature, imagination and symbol to be coherent and mutual enough to create a complete definition of the

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