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What did the Romantic School of Criticism emphasize in place of the moral function of literature?
Aesthetic pleasure
What was increasingly displaced by an emphasis on individual experience in the Romantic School of Criticism?
Decorum and order
What supplanted the primacy of imitation of classical authors or nature in the Romantic School of Criticism?
Originality and genius
What is theoretically conceived as a 'pleasurable subjective experience directed toward an object' in the Romantic School of Criticism?
Aesthetic pleasure
What was increasingly counterbalanced by an emphasis on aesthetic pleasure and the psychology of the reader's response in the Romantic School of Criticism?
The moral function of literature
What does Transcendental Philosophy analyze?
The conditions which determine the possibility of knowledge
According to Kant, what does the transcendental interpretation deal with?
A priori principles and the conditions which determine the possibility of knowledge
How does Kant differentiate transcendental interpretation from psychological theory?
By emphasizing a sharp division and focusing on a priori principles
Discover the main premises of the Romantic School of Criticism in this quiz. Explore the response to and reaction against neoclassicism, as well as the key ideals and principles of proto-romanticism. Test your knowledge of 18th-century aesthetics and the transition to romanticism.
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