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Download or read book Graecomania written by Gilbert Hess and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seit der Klassik und Winckelmanns wirkmächtigen Studien zur Kunstgeschichte bilden die drei Topoi "Griechische Antike", "Kunst" und "Freiheit" eine imaginäre Einheit, die geradezu divinatorische Züge annehmen konnte und ein Modell des klassisch inspirierten Kulturstaates zu begründen half. Im Umfeld des griechischen Freiheitskampfes verband sich dieses ästhetische Ideal mit einer virulent politischen Dimension: Der 1821 ausbrechende Aufstand gegen die Osmanen schürte die Hoffnung, ein neues und freies Griechenland als europäischen Modellstaat errichten zu können. Im Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Diskurse gelegen, konnten die Ereignisse im Zeichen des Philhellenismus in gleicher Weise als Glaubenskrieg des Christentums gegen den Islam, als Aufbegehren eines unterdrückten Volkes gegen die Obrigkeit (und damit als Projektionsfläche demokratischer Wunschvorstellungen im bürgerlichen Vormärz) sowie als vermeintliche Renaissance eines antiken Idealzustands gesehen werden. Die Verbindung klassizistischer und romantischer Ideale initiierte ebenso wie der gezielte Einsatz unterschiedlicher Medien eine stände- und schichtenübergreifende Wirksamkeit und ermöglichte eine bislang ungekannte Massenmobilisierung, die in einer kaum überschaubaren Menge literarischer und künstlerischer Erzeugnisse ihren Niederschlag fand. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band mit Beiträgen aus Frankreich, Italien, den USA und Deutschland analysiert die Bedeutung des Philhellenismus für die Ausbildung eines ästhetisch-kulturellen Europagedankens und untersucht vergleichend seine Rezeptionsgeschichte in den europäischen Ländern.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt by : Dana Villa
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt written by Dana Villa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her particular interests have made her one of the most frequently cited thinkers of our time. This Companion examines the primary themes of her multi-faceted work, from her theory of totalitarianism and her controversial idea of the 'banality of evil' to her classic studies of political action and her final reflections on judgment and the life of the mind. Each essay examines the political, philosophical, and historical concerns which shaped Arendt's thought, and which prompted her to become one of the most unapologetic champions of the political life in the history of Western thought.
Book Synopsis Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry by : Roland Mayer
Download or read book Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry written by Roland Mayer and published by British Academy. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g. alliteration, lexical and morphological archaism or grecism, and of course metaphor and word-order; and there were also less obvious resources in the technical vocabularies of law, philosophy, and medicine. The essays in this volume show how the poets in the classical period combined these elements, and so created a poetic medium that could comprehend satire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epics. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English by : Clive Upton
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English written by Clive Upton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, this is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. This second edition has been fully revised to include: a full reappraisal of the pronunciation models for modern British and American English; 2,000 new entries, including new words from the last decade, encyclopedic terms and proper names; separate IPA transcriptions for British and American English for over 100,000 words; information on grammatical variants including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and verb tenses. The most comprehensive dictionary of its type available, The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the essential reference for those interested in English pronunciation.
Book Synopsis A History of Greece by : Nicholas Doumanis
Download or read book A History of Greece written by Nicholas Doumanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek-speaking people have occupied the Aegean region continuously since the Bronze Age, while Greek culture has been a feature of the Eastern Mediterranean dating back to the Age of Alexander. But what do Greeks today have in common with Homer, Plato and Aristotle? What are the links between the people who built the Parthenon and those who currently conserve it? Drawing on the latest research into ancient, medieval and modern history, Nicholas Doumanis provides fresh and challenging insights into Greek history since early antiquity. Taking a transnational approach, Doumanis argues that the resilience of Greek culture has a great deal to do with its continual interaction with other cultures throughout the centuries. Ideal for the undergraduate student, or anyone keen to find out more about Greek history, A History of Greece provides a unique and fascinating account of the fortunes and many transformations of Greek culture and society, from the earliest times to the present.
Book Synopsis Germany from the Outside by : Laurie Ruth Johnson
Download or read book Germany from the Outside written by Laurie Ruth Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the inside-as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself “German” necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally considered “German”? Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging, Germany from the Outside explores new opportunities for understanding and shaping community at a time when many are questioning the ability of cultural practices to effect structural change. Located at the nexus of cultural, political, historiographical, and philosophical discourses, the essays in this volume inform discussions about next directions for German Studies and for the Humanities in a fraught era.
Book Synopsis Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One by :
Download or read book Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this volume seek to treat the modern history of the Balkans from a transnational and relational perspective in terms of shared and connected, as well as entangled, histories, transfers and crossings.
Book Synopsis Tragedy's Endurance by : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Download or read book Tragedy's Endurance written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period. Philhellenism and theatromania took hold in this milieu amidst attempts to banish the heavily French-influenced German court culture of the mid-eighteenth century, and by 1800 performances of Greek tragedies had effectively become the German answer to the French Revolution. Tragedy's subsequent endurance on the German stage is mapped here through the responses of performances to particular political, social, and cultural milestones, from the Napoleonic Wars and the Revolution of 1848 to the Third Reich, the new political movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification. Images of ancient Greece which were prevalent in the productions of these different eras are examined closely: the Nazi's proclamation of a racial kinship between the Greeks and the Germans; the politicization of performances of Greek tragedies since the 1960s and 1970s, emblematized by Marcuse's notion of a cultural revolution; the protest choruses of the GDR and the subsequent new genre of choric theatre in unified Germany. By examining these images and performances in relation to their respective socio-cultural contexts, the volume sheds light on how, in a constantly changing political and cultural climate, performances of Greek tragedies helped affirm, destabilize, re-stabilize, and transform the cultural identity of the educated middle class over a volatile two hundred year period.
Book Synopsis Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy by : Kristian Larsen
Download or read book Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy written by Kristian Larsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has ancient Greek thought been received within phenomenology? The volume offers chapters on Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacob Klein, Hannah Arendt, Eugen Fink, Jan Patočka, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida.
Book Synopsis Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks by : Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Download or read book Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies. Nonetheless, until now little attention has been dedicated to the choice of the themes represented in the parks and the strategies of their representation. This is particularly interesting when the theme is a historical one, for example ancient Greece. Which elements of classical Greece find their way into a theme park and how are they chosen and represented? What is the “entertainment” element in ancient Greek history, culture and myth, which allows its presence in commercial structures aiming to people's fun? How does the representation of Greece change against different cultural backgrounds, e.g. in different European countries, in the USA, in China? This book frames a discussion of these representations within the current debates about immersive spaces, uses of history and postmodern aesthetics, and analyses how ancient Greece has been represented and made “enjoyable” in seven different theme parks across the world, providing an original and ground-breaking contribution to theme park studies and classical reception.
Book Synopsis Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing by : Paula Henrikson
Download or read book Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing written by Paula Henrikson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel genres, and languages, coherently integrated around the central theme of time and temporalities. Taken together, the contributions consider how temporal aspects evolve and change in regard to spatial, historical, and literary contexts. In a chapter-by-chapter account this volume thus offers various case studies that address the issue of temporality by showing, for example, how time is inscribed in landscape, how travellers’ encounters with other temporalities informed other disciplines; it interrogates the idea of "cultural temporalities" in regard to a tension between past and future, passivity and progression; and focuses on how time is entangled in identity construction proper to travelogues.
Book Synopsis Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism by : Martin Vöhler
Download or read book Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism written by Martin Vöhler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key aspects of philhellenism – political self-determination, freedom, beauty, individual greatness – originate in antiquity and present a complex reception history. The force of European philhellenism derives from ancient Roman idealizations, which have been drawn on by European movements since the Enlightenment. How is philhellenism able to transcend national, cultural and epochal limits? The articles collected in this volume deal with (1) the ancient conceptualization of philhellenism, (2) the actualization and politicization of the term at the time of the European Restoration (1815–30), and (3) the transformation of philhellenism into a pan-European movement. During the Greek struggle for independence the different receptions of philhellenism regain a common focus; philhellenism becomes an inextricable element in the creation of a pan-European identity and a starting point for the regeneration and modernization of Greece. – It is easy to criticize the tradition of philhellenism as being simplistic, naïve, and self-serving, but there is an irreducibly utopian element in later philhellenic idealizations of ancient Greece.
Book Synopsis Alexander's Empire by : John Pentland Mahaffy
Download or read book Alexander's Empire written by John Pentland Mahaffy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated 1887 work describes Alexander's conquests, the collapse of his empire after his death, and the rise of Rome.
Book Synopsis Readings in Interpretation by : Andrzej Warminski
Download or read book Readings in Interpretation written by Andrzej Warminski and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Euripideanism by : Kristi Michelle Wilson
Download or read book Euripideanism written by Kristi Michelle Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Goethe and His Age by : György Lukács
Download or read book Goethe and His Age written by György Lukács and published by New York : H. Fertig. This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heidegger's Roots by : Charles R. Bambach
Download or read book Heidegger's Roots written by Charles R. Bambach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a gap in the literature for an investigation of the shared themes between Heidegger's thought and that of the ideologists of National Socialism. The author reads Heidegger's writings from 1933-45 in historical context, showing his engagement with the National Socialists.
