Tag Archives: Mario Praz

wayfaring: complicity with the wanderer

Is man a wayfarer? A wanderer between two worlds? His destiny that of an outsider, eve an outlaw to the laws of nature; man asĀ  wayfarer, restless and unable to settle and establish roots . He reaches a fork in … Continue reading

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REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD

The main claim is that the Romantics turned the agenda of the Enlightenment on its head with a vengeance; it was crisis in an age of reason, the somewhat logical and not unexpected reaction to a scientific age. It was … Continue reading

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THE ROMANTIC AGONY: FATAL ATTRACTION

It was while he was still a student that Berlioz discovered Shakespeare; ”Shakespeare and Goethe! The mute witness of my torments, who have explained my whole life to me”, and he simulataneously fell in love with the blond Irish actress … Continue reading

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