Abstract
In the globalization era characterized by the fusion of cultural traditions of different nations, there is an alternative tendency within the humanities: the increasing focus on the problem of national-stylistic specificity of the past and present artistic phenomena. Romanticism – an artistic style that dominated the European culture in the period of 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries that inspired the freedom of national spirit’s expression and artists’ interest in folklore and historical past of their nation is a demonstrative example of such phenomena. The article deals with the historiographical aspect of Romanticism research in the humanities (in particular, philosophical, cultural, musicology, and literature studies) basing on the works of European, American, Russian, and Ukrainian scholars of the 20th – 21st centuries. Much attention is given to the musicological conceptions of Romanticism that are considered in the broad context of the interdisciplinary field of Romantic historiography. Moreover, the analysis and evaluation of the scientific achievements of the Ukrainian scholars that examine this topic hold a valuable place in the research’s presentation. Basing on the analysis of these works, the causes of multiple interpretations of Romanticism are defined and their representatives’ common grounds are specified: the consideration of Romanticism as a multidimensional category, recognition of Romanticism’s national versions in different European cultures, perception of Romanticism as a dynamic system of multidirectional tendencies. Finally, the contemporary approaches in the Romanticism research are outlined.
Highlights
A thorough examination of cultural and art history reveals the new distinctive problems of academic research that were not clearly actualized in the previous epochs
It is an artistic style that occurred at the turn of the 19th century that dynamically developed alongside the national-patriotic movement of the European nations and was an embodiment of freedom of the creative individualism expression
Philosophical ideas of Romanticism, romantic imagery and stylistics that preconditioned the 19thcentury artistic landscape have influenced greatly the further cultural development of various European nations, especially those that did not possess their state and nationhood struggling for the national independence (Ukrainian, Hungarian, Czech, Serbian, Slovakian, and Croatian)
Summary
A thorough examination of cultural and art history reveals the new distinctive problems of academic research that were not clearly actualized in the previous epochs. Philosophical ideas of Romanticism, romantic imagery and stylistics that preconditioned the 19thcentury artistic landscape have influenced greatly the further cultural development of various European nations, especially those that did not possess their state and nationhood struggling for the national independence (Ukrainian, Hungarian, Czech, Serbian, Slovakian, and Croatian). In these nations’ art, Romanticism has evolved as a form of the national-cultural revival. Nowadays, developing their states within the European context, these nations have a deep feeling of correspondence of their patriotic strivings to the ideas of national self-consciousness and self-identification that were formulated, interpreted, and generalized in the Romantic era
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