ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The European philosopher who influenced the “Sturm und Drang” movement more than any other was:
A
René Descartes.
B
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
C
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
D
George Berkely.
E
Francis Bacon.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The exponents of the Sturm und Drang were profoundly influenced by the thought of Rousseau and Johann Georg Hamann, who held that the basic verities of existence were to be apprehended through faith and the experience of the senses.

Detailed explanation-2: -The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is considered to be the ideologue of Sturm und Drang; other significant figures were Johann Anton Leisewitz, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, H. L. Wagner, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Detailed explanation-3: -Only Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was the follower, as he was also the friend, of Rousseau, and Paul et Virginie opens the great literary tradition of Rousseau.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sturm und Drang literary movement took its name from a 1776 play by Maximilian Klinger set against the background of the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”) was the name of a German literary movement that reached its apex in the 1770s-just as Goethe was writing The Sorrows of Young Werther.

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