The Culture Of Classicism

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801878896

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The Culture of Classicism by Caroline Winterer Pdf

Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, language-based subject to a broader study of civilization, persuasively arguing that we cannot understand both the rise of the American university and modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation.

Author : Anthony Grafton,Glenn W. Most,Salvatore Settis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0674035720

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The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton,Glenn W. Most,Salvatore Settis Pdf

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Author : John Onians,Professor of Visual Arts School of World Art Studies and Museology John Onians
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300075332

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Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome by John Onians,Professor of Visual Arts School of World Art Studies and Museology John Onians Pdf

An inquiry into the foundations of European culture. The account ranges from the Greek Dark Ages to the Christianisation of Rome, revealing how the experience of a constantly changing physical environment influenced the inhabitants of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400840076

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Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity by Simon Goldhill Pdf

How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

Author : Brian K. Etter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351735070

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From Classicism to Modernism by Brian K. Etter Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. The last century has witnessed the ascendancy of the avant-garde in music. From Schoenberg to Boulez to Stockhausen, the avant-garde has defined the modern conception of musical creativity. Contemporary serious music demands the "new" in terms of style, form and ways of listening and hearing. Implicit in this approach is the rejection of the "old", from the baroque to the music of the later 19th-century symphonists. Paradoxically, however, it is this "old" repertoire which contiues to dominate concert programmes. An exploration of this dichotomy lies at the heart of this book. Drawing on a wealth of European philosophical and musical texts, the author examines the origins of the avant-garde and its relation to modernity in tandem with the history of the tonal tradition.

Author : John Levi Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190663599

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Empire of Ruin by John Levi Barnard Pdf

Introduction: Black classicism in the American empire -- Phillis Wheatley and the affairs of state -- In plain sight: slavery and the architecture of democracy -- Ancient history, American time: Charles Chesnutt and the sites of memory -- Crumbling into dust: conjure and the ruins of empire -- National monuments and the residue of history

Author : Paul B. Niell,Stacie G. Widdifield
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826353771

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Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910 by Paul B. Niell,Stacie G. Widdifield Pdf

The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need to “revive” buen gusto (good taste) are the themes of this collection of essays. The contributors provide new insights into neoclassicism and buen gusto as cultural, not just visual, phenomena in the late colonial and early national periods and promote new approaches to the study of Latin American art history and visual culture. The essays examine neoclassical visual culture from assorted perspectives. They consider how classicism was imposed, promoted, adapted, negotiated, and contested in myriad social, political, economic, cultural, and temporal situations. Case studies show such motivations as the desire to impose imperial authority, to fashion the nationalist self, and to form and maintain new social and cultural ideologies. The adaptation of classicism and buen gusto in the Americas was further shaped by local factors, including the realities of place and the influence of established visual and material traditions.

Author : Robert Ralph Bolgar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9780521078429

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Classical Influences on European Culture, A.D. 500-1500 by Robert Ralph Bolgar Pdf

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691225395

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Classical Pasts by James I. Porter Pdf

The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current understanding of the term. The book seeks not to arrive at a final definition, but rather to provide a cultural history of the concept by exploring how the meanings of "classical" have been created, recreated, and rejected over time. The book asks questions that have been nearly absent from the scholarly literature. Does "classical" refer to a specific period of history or to the artistic products of that time? How has its definition changed? Did those who lived in classical times have some understanding of what the term "classical" has meant? How coherent, consistent, or even justified is the term? The book's introduction provides a generous theoretical and historical overview. It is followed by eleven chapters in which the contributors argue for the existence not of a single classical past, but of multiple, competing classical pasts. The essays address a broad range of topics--Homer and early Greek poetry and music, Isocrate, Hellenistic and Roman art, Cicero and Greek philosophy, the history of Latin literature, imperial Greek literature, and more. The most up-to-date and challenging treatment of the topic available, this collection will be of lasting interest to students and scholars of ancient and modern literature, art, and cultural history.

Author : Brian K Etter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138736740

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From Classicism to Modernism by Brian K Etter Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Drawing on a wealth of European philosophical and musical texts, the author examines the origins of the avant-garde and its relation to modernity in tandem with the history of the tonal tradition.

Author : Philip Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521584906

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Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England by Philip Ayres Pdf

This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.

Author : Jeroen Vanheste
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047420088

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Guardians of the Humanist Legacy: The Classicism of T.S. Eliot's Criterion Network and its Relevance to our Postmodern World by Jeroen Vanheste Pdf

The T.S. Eliot of the 1920s was a European humanist who was part of an international network of like-minded intellectuals. Their ideas about literature, education and European culture in general remain highly relevant to the cultural debates of our day.

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801441633

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The Mirror of Antiquity by Caroline Winterer Pdf

In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time--the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society--this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.

Author : Marshall Fishwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135797843

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Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture by Marshall Fishwick Pdf

Learn why Cicero is considered one of the most important individuals in all of Western culture! Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a poet, philosopher, writer, scholar, barrister, statesman, patriot, and the linguist who helped make Latin into a universal language. His many influences in rhetoric, politics, literature, and ideas are seen throughout Western civilization. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture explores the fascinating man behind the eloquence and his monumental effect on language, morality, and popularity of Western culture. One of the leading authorities on popular culture, Dr. Marshall Fishwick discusses the multifaceted man who may be, besides Jesus, the central figure in all of Western civilization. The author recounts his own personal quest of traveling the land and ancient cities of Italy, gleaning insights from people he met along the way who have knowledge about Cicero’s life and times. However, Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is more than a simple search for the man and his accomplishments, a man whose mere words changed the way people think. This book shows in each of us the roots of our own ideas, beliefs, and culture. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture discusses: Cicero’s rise to acclaim his affect on the language of popular culture common traits Cicero shared with Thomas Jefferson rhetoric, the art of oratory community two pivotal essays on friendship and old age vision of his reputation the search for peace Marshall McLuhan, Ciceronian Cicero’s Rome Cicero’s ancestral home of Arpinum Julius Caesar, politics, and the influences of Cicero the Roman republic and its downfall America as the new Rome much more! Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is a startling, entertaining examination of the man who made Western culture what it is today. The book is insightful reading for educators, students, or anyone interested in one of the major forces in popular culture.

Author : Michael Silk,Ingo Gildenhard,Rosemary Barrow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405155502

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The Classical Tradition by Michael Silk,Ingo Gildenhard,Rosemary Barrow Pdf

The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images