Neoclassic

Entertainment / Literature / Neoclassic: An adjective referring to the Enlightenment. See Enlightenment for further discussion, or click here for a PDF handout that places the Neoclassic period in chronological order with other intellectual movements.
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Neoclassical

Entertainment / Music / Neoclassical: Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct. MORE

Neoclassicism

Entertainment / Literature / Neoclassicism: The movement toward classical architecture, literature, drama, and design that took place during the Restoration and Enlightenment. See Enlightenment for further discussion about its influence in lite MORE

Humors

Entertainment / Literature / Humors: (alias bodily humors) In ancient Greece, Hippocrates postulated that four bodily humors or liquids existed in the body corresponding to the four elements existing in matter. These four liquids determi MORE

Deism

Entertainment / Literature / Deism: (From Latin Deus, 'God') An intellectual religious movement en vogue through the late seventeenth century up to the late eighteenth century concerned with rational rather than faith-based approaches t MORE

Romantic

Entertainment / Music / Romantic: A period in history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional, expressive, and imaginative style. MORE

Three Unities

Entertainment / Literature / Three Unities: In the 1500s and 1600s, critics of drama expanded Aristotle's ideas in the Poetics to create the rule of the 'three unities.' A good play, according to this doctrine, must have three traits. The first MORE