Classicism (literature)
In literary studies, classicism is understood as a commitment to a literary language that is considered to be classic. Literary classicism consists in the preference for the style and vocabulary of individual authors, who are admired and imitated as the only authoritative models. The works of these authors are considered the culmination of language and literature development. The best known example is Ciceronianism . In an extreme classicism, words, expressions and stylistic devices that do not appear in the authors defined as classic are strictly avoided.
The neoclassicism (also neoclassicism or neoclassical) was a literary direction of German literature after 1900, which saw itself as conscious withdrawal of modernity. One representative was the late Gerhart Hauptmann .
The neoclassicism of the 18th century in Spain was influenced by the French classicism , the term is to be equated here with that of classicism.
