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sturm und drang
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Sturm und Drang
n.
(from German) national literary movement in Germany at the end of the 18th century that viewed literature as a storm of one individual's emotions and opposed formalism in thought and society;turmoil
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Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang (, literally "Storm and Drive", "Storm and Urge", though conventionally translated as "Storm and Stress") is a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that took place from the late 1760s to the early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements. The period is named for Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's play Sturm und Drang, which was first performed by Abel Seyler's famed theatrical company in 1777.
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Sturm und Drang
Noun
1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
(synonym) turbulence, upheaval
(hypernym) disorder
(hyponym) agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest
(classification) politics, political science, government
