The Essential Characteristics of the Romantic and Classical Styles
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ISBN13: 9780217889568
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. STYLE AS FORMALLY AFFECTED (l) BY EMOTION. 16. ALLES Lyrische, says Goethe, musz im G..ui/i'ii sehr vernunftig, im Einzelnen ein Biszchen unverniinftig sein. It has the touch of irrationality which belongs to the expression of imaginative passion. It may appear strange to associate, however remotely, with what is meaner than man, a mode of ufterance which has given him the noblest poetry: nevertheless, it is true that the purely emotional element in lyric expression connects it, in so far, with that rude language of feeling which belongs to the lower animals rather than with the articulate language of thought which is confined to man. Doubtless the form in which these characteristics appear is complicated and disguised by the high development of articulate language. It is not indeed the actual means of expression which are analogous; for the high development of articulate language has almost wholly substituted the symbolic implication for the direct expression of feeling, and left to interjectiona, which alone now represent that function, merely a last despised chapter of grammar. It is rather in the characteristics which accompany the expression than in the means consciously adopted to mark it that the resemblance lies. These may be denned as incoherence and iteration: two features which doubtless often arise from other causes than strong feeling, but, on the other hand, are conspicuously avoided in the language of calm reason. To a large extent no doubt these disappear in all articulate language, which, so to speak, carries off the stress of feeling by giving it abundant scope: still, when the stream is strong it finds the artificial channel too narrow, and if it does not break out along the old ' bed it at any rate overflows the new: the utterance may no..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217889568 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217889565 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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