Romania Clasa a XII-a Romanian Language and Literature

Chapters: 4

1. Language and communication

Correct and nuanced expression · Types of discourse · Dialogue and public debate · Writing

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Interwar poets · Modernism vs traditionalism · Avant-garde · Diversity in interwar poetry

Avant-Garde Movements in Art and Literature – Avant-garde (French for "front guard") names the artists and writers who, from about 1905 to 1970, broke the old rules of art on purpose. Futurism praised speed and machines; Expressionism showed inner feeling; Dada used nonsense, chance and protest after the shock of the First World War; Surrealism explored dreams and the unconscious with automatic writing; Constructivism built clean, useful forms for a new society. Between the wars, avant-garde poets dropped rhyme and fixed metre, played with the shape of words on the page and wrote about cities and machines. After 1945, neo-avant-garde groups such as Fluxus turned art into events and everyday actions.

Literature serving communist ideology · Post-war novel · Post-war drama and poetry · Postmodernism · Literature and music

Philosophy of Art: What Is Art, and Why Does It Matter? – The philosophy of art (part of aesthetics) asks: what is art, what is beauty, is taste only personal, what makes a creator, and can art show truth? Answers have changed from "art copies nature" to "art expresses feeling" to "the idea is the art".

Reading and interpretation · Romanian literature in universal context

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