Romanticism in North-American literature is con...

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Ano: 2022Banca: UFPROrganização: UFPRDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Compreensão de Texto

Romanticism in North-American literature is considered the first period of American creativity; it was marked by the westward expansion, when the U.S. was still finding its feet as a new nation. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about this literary period?

The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe.

Among the main representative names of the American Romanticism are Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe.

Romanticism legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.

Romantic writers penned a multitude of sermons, treatises, chronicles, histories, letters, conversion narratives, political pronouncements, slave and captivity narratives, travel reports, and promotional tracts.

Romantic literature made an early appearance with the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper, with the emphasis on heroic simplicity and the fervent landscape descriptions of an already-exotic mythicized frontier peopled by "noble savages".

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