What happens to the experience of community when communal life collapses? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream. Freud has pictured the human ego as living a harassed life between the conflicting claims of the instinctive, ...

Culture.pl is here to explain what makes Poland’s version of romanticism unique. The beginning of the Romantic period in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is thought to be 1822, the year when ...

B. J. Robinson, Ph.D. Bonnie J. (B.J.) Robinson, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of North Georgia Press and a professor of English at the University of North Georgia (UNG). She has published ...

In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody contains chromatic notes as well as accompanying chords. These dissonances usually resolve to ...

From failed revolutions in Hungary, France, and Austria (1848) to the formal establishment of Italy (1861) and Germany (1871), the Romantic period was one of both political upheaval and unforgettable ...