#asianism

• Anti-romantic — Opposed to romanticism, the romantic spirit, or excessive sentimentalism; characterized by realism, pragmatism, critical lucidity, and irony. In the history of arts and literature, the term describes writers, works, or cultural movements (such as Parnassianism, naturalism, or early modernism) that reject idealization, melancholy, and escape into fantasy, instead promoting an objective, rational, and direct representation of the human condition.
• Anti-romantic — The feminine form of antiromantic; a woman, literary work, attitude, or cultural orientation that opposes romanticism, rejecting excessive sentimentalism, idealization, and escape into fantasy. In a critical context, it characterizes literary and artistic manifestations structured on pragmatism, lucidity, raw realism, and irony, aiming for a direct and rational representation of reality.
• Art for art's sake — An aesthetic and philosophical doctrine that emerged in 19th-century France (l'art pour l'art), asserting that art possesses autonomous intrinsic value and should not be subordinated to any utilitarian, moral, political, didactic, or social function. Initially promoted by writers such as Théophile Gautier and later adopted by Parnassians and Symbolists, this concept holds that the only legitimate purpose of artistic creation is the attainment of pure beauty and perfection of form.
• Asianism — A rhetorical and literary style that emerged in the schools of eloquence of Asia Minor during the 3rd century BC, characterized by highly ornamental, artificial expression, rich in figures of speech, rhythmic, and often bombastic. In the history of ancient oratory, this structural current opposed the severe and sober classicism represented by Atticism, emphasizing pathos, sound effects, and an ample phraseological construction designed to auditively impress the audience.
• Asianism — A bookish form or academic variant synonymous with 'asianism'; it designates the highly ornate, florid, and bombastic rhetorical and literary style promoted by the orators of Asia Minor in antiquity. It can also describe a linguistic feature, a structural expression, or a set of cultural traits specific to Asian peoples transposed into another cultural environment.
• Atticism — A literary and stylistic movement that arose in the 1st century BC, promoting the imitation of the simple, elegant, clear, and correct language of classical Attic writers, as opposed to Asianism, which was seen as ornate and bombastic. Broadly, it denotes refinement of wit, conciseness, and perfect elegance of expression.