Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Baranczyk "Positivism and neo romanticism"

The defeat of the january insurection generated a distrust of the romantic ideology and undermined the authority of the romantic bards. There was a general shift away from poetry and toward realistic and naturalist fiction and drama. maria Konopnicka was one of the most vocal proponants of the social reform in the spirit of positivism. she wrote in defense of the oppressed and used folklore and speakers from the lower classes. The last decade of the 19th century gave way to poetry again - sometimes called young poland, modernism or neo-romanticism and was influneced by the western symbolism and philosophy. 958

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