Part 1 Romanticism: a new knowledge of my real self and my character - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Reveries of a Solitary Walker", 1782; the vital roots of genius - Edward Young conjectures on original composition, 1759; touched by divinity - Johann Gottfried Herder "Shakespeare", 1773; irresistible simplicity and nature -James Macpherson "The Works of Ossian", 1765; the Nordic imagination - Madame de Stael "On Literature", 1800. Part 2 Realism: the pathetic fallacy - John Ruskin "Modern Painters", 1856; moral emotion - George Eliot worldliness and other-worldiness - the poet Young, 1857; the art of copying from nature - Scott review of Jane Austen's "Emma", 1815; French society is the real author - Balzac foreword to the Human Comedy, 1842; the mission of art today - Sainte-Beuve "The Hopes and Wishes of the Literary and Poetic Movement", 1830. Part 3 Modernism: to shake off preconceived ideas, to break through the limits of the novel -Huysmans preface to second edition of "Against Nature", 1903; the "fatal idiom" of decadence - Gautier preface to Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil", 1868; a literature in which the visible word is no longer a reality, and the unseen world no longer a dream -Symons "The Symbolist Movement in Literature", 1899; to arrive at the unknown through a derangement of all my senses - Rimbaud letter to "Georges Izambard", 1871; the sumptuous robes of external analogies - Moreas "Symbolist Manifesto", 1886. Part 4 The literature poltical engagement: the moral scandals provoked by the surrealists do not necessarily presuppose the overthrow of intellectual and social values - Naville "The Revolution and the Interlectualls", 1926; a change of attitude - MacNeice "Modern Poetry", 1938; and so the poltiical can be intellectual, and the intellectual can act! - Heinrich Mann "Zola", 1917; the categorical standard of being for or against the revolution -Trotsky "Literature and Revolution", 1924. Part 5 Postmodernism: a literature of war, of homecoming and of rubble - Boll "In Defence of Rubble Literture", 1952; neo-realism - Calvino preface to "The Path to the Nest of Spiders", 1964; the feeling of absurdity -Camus "The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942; to be "bludgeoned into detachment from our banal existences, from Habit" - Ionesco "Notes and Counter Notes", 1962.
