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{{Short description|Movement in literature}}
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'''Literary Impressionism''' is influenced by the European [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] art movement; as such, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Tachtigers]] explicitly tried to incorporate Impressionism into their prose, poems, and other literary works. Much of what has been called "impressionist" literature is subsumed into several other categories, especially [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]], its chief exponents being [[Charles Baudelaire|Baudelaire]], [[Stéphane Mallarmé|Mallarmé]], [[Arthur Rimbaud|Rimbaud]], [[Paul Verlaine|Verlaine]] and [[Jules Laforgue|Laforgue]], and [[Imagism]]. It focuses on a particular character's perception of events. The edges of reality are blurred by choosing points of view that lie outside the norm.<ref name="Baldick">{{cite encyclopedia |surname=Baldick |given=Chris |authorlink=Chris Baldick |entry=Impressionism |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms |edition=4th |format=Online Version |year=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191783234 |entry-url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198715443.001.0001/acref-9780198715443-e-587?rskey=MsgKuo&result=596 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198715443.001.0001/acref-9780198715443 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Greene">{{cite encyclopedia |editor-surname=Greene |editor-given=Roland |editor-link=Roland Greene |display-editors=etal |entry=Impressionism |entry-url= |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics |edition=4th rev. |year=2012 |url={{Google books|id=uKiC6IeFR2UC|plainurl=y|page=|keywords=|text=}} |place=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15491-6}}</ref><ref name=":0">[https://www.eng-literature.com/2016/05/meaning-of-literary-term-impressionism.html All about English Literature, ''What is the meaning of the literary term Impressionism'']</ref>
'''Literary Impressionism''' is influenced by the European [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] art movement; as such, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations. The Dutch [[Tachtigers]] explicitly tried to incorporate Impressionism into their prose, poems, and other literary works. Much of what has been called "impressionist" literature is subsumed into several other categories, especially [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]], its chief exponents being [[Charles Baudelaire|Baudelaire]], [[Stéphane Mallarmé|Mallarmé]], [[Arthur Rimbaud|Rimbaud]], [[Paul Verlaine|Verlaine]] and [[Jules Laforgue|Laforgue]], and [[Imagism|the Imagists]]. It focuses on a particular character's perception of events. The edges of reality are blurred by choosing points of view that lie outside the norm.<ref name="Baldick">{{cite encyclopedia |surname=Baldick |given=Chris |authorlink=Chris Baldick |entry=Impressionism |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms |edition=4th |format=Online Version |year=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191783234 |entry-url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198715443.001.0001/acref-9780198715443-e-587?rskey=MsgKuo&result=596 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198715443.001.0001/acref-9780198715443 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Greene">{{cite encyclopedia |editor-surname=Greene |editor-given=Roland |editor-link=Roland Greene |display-editors=etal |entry=Impressionism |entry-url= |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics |edition=4th rev. |year=2012 |url={{Google books|id=uKiC6IeFR2UC|plainurl=y|page=|keywords=|text=}} |place=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15491-6}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.eng-literature.com/2016/05/meaning-of-literary-term-impressionism.html|title=Impressionism in Literature &#124; Definition, Characteristics, Literary Example, Art|date=May 26, 2016}}</ref>


Impressionistic literature can be simply defined as when an author centers their story or attention on the character's mental life (such as the character's impressions, feelings, sensations and emotions) rather than trying to interpret them. Authors such as [[Virginia Woolf]] (''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'') and [[Joseph Conrad]] (''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' and "The Lagoon") are among the foremost creators of the form. These novels have been said to be the finest examples of a genre which is not easily comprehensible.<ref>{{cite book |surname=Fried |given=Michael |title=What was Literary Impressionism? |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9780674980792 |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980792}}</ref>
Impressionistic literature can be simply defined as when an author centers their story or attention on the character's mental life (such as the character's impressions, feelings, sensations and emotions) rather than trying to interpret them. Authors such as [[Virginia Woolf]] (''[[Mrs Dalloway]]'') and [[Joseph Conrad]] (''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' and "The Lagoon") are among the foremost creators of the form. These novels have been said to be the finest examples of a genre which is not easily comprehensible.<ref>{{cite book |surname=Fried |given=Michael |title=What was Literary Impressionism? |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9780674980792 |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980792}}</ref>


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The term is used to describe a work of literature characterized by the selection of a few details to convey the sense impressions left by an incident or scene. This style of writing occurs when characters, scenes, or actions are portrayed from a subjective point of view of reality.<ref name=":0" />
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In [[Russian literature]], the modernist novelist [[Aleksey Remizov]] is considered most impressionist author.
— Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, "Intermezzo" (1908)
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In [[Ukrainian literature]], [[Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky]] marked himself off with his short prose. In the novel ''Intermezzo'' the narrator goes to the countryside to "escape from the iron hand of the city" and spiritually recovers in nature. As in his play, [[Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky|Kotsiubynsky]] identifies a number of characters: my fatigue, the fields in June, the sun, three white sheepdogs, the cuckoo, the larks, the iron hand of the city, the human grief, and the narrator's soul, which appears to be a some kind of a stage filled with pains and joys, fatigue and hope.

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The term is used to describe a work of literature characterized by the selection of a few details to convey the sense impressions left by an incident or scene. This style of writing occurs when characters, scenes, or actions are portrayed from a subjective point of view of reality.<ref name=":0" />


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 12:37, 12 October 2024

Literary Impressionism is influenced by the European Impressionist art movement; as such, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations. The Dutch Tachtigers explicitly tried to incorporate Impressionism into their prose, poems, and other literary works. Much of what has been called "impressionist" literature is subsumed into several other categories, especially Symbolism, its chief exponents being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Laforgue, and the Imagists. It focuses on a particular character's perception of events. The edges of reality are blurred by choosing points of view that lie outside the norm.[1][2][3]

Impressionistic literature can be simply defined as when an author centers their story or attention on the character's mental life (such as the character's impressions, feelings, sensations and emotions) rather than trying to interpret them. Authors such as Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway) and Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness and "The Lagoon") are among the foremost creators of the form. These novels have been said to be the finest examples of a genre which is not easily comprehensible.[4]

The term is used to describe a work of literature characterized by the selection of a few details to convey the sense impressions left by an incident or scene. This style of writing occurs when characters, scenes, or actions are portrayed from a subjective point of view of reality.[3]

In Russian literature, the modernist novelist Aleksey Remizov is considered most impressionist author.

References

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  1. ^ Baldick, Chris (2015). "Impressionism". The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Online Version) (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191783234.
  2. ^ Greene, Roland; et al., eds. (2012). "Impressionism". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th rev. ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
  3. ^ a b "Impressionism in Literature | Definition, Characteristics, Literary Example, Art". May 26, 2016.
  4. ^ Fried, Michael (2018). What was Literary Impressionism?. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674980792.


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