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The Culture of Classicism

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801878893
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Classicism written by Caroline Winterer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Empire of Ruin

Author : John Levi Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190663596
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Ruin written by John Levi Barnard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Classical Tradition

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035720
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Tradition written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Mirror of Antiquity

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711555
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Antiquity written by Caroline Winterer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Celluloid Classicism

Author : Hari Krishnan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819578886
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Celluloid Classicism written by Hari Krishnan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of De La Torre Bueno First Book Special Citation, given by DSA, 2021 Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical perspective. The intertwined and symbiotic histories of these forms have never received serious scholarly attention. For the most part, historians of South Indian cinema have noted the presence of song and dance sequences in films, but have not historicized them with reference to the simultaneous revival of dance culture among the middle-class in this region. In a parallel manner, historians of dance have excluded deliberations on the influence of cinema in the making of the "classical" forms of modern India. Although the book primarily focuses on the period between the late 1920s and 1950s, it also addresses the persistence of these mid-twentieth century cultural developments into the present. The book rethinks the history of Bharatanatyam in the twentieth century from an interdisciplinary, transmedia standpoint and features 130 archival images.

Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome

Author : John Onians
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300075335
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome written by John Onians and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Classical Pasts

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225397
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Classical Pasts written by James I. Porter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840074
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity written by Simon Goldhill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Literature of Weimar Classicism

Author : Simon Richter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 157113249X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Weimar Classicism written by Simon Richter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.

Culture of Hope

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576851
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Culture of Hope written by Frederick Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner indicts both Left and Right for creating a cultural establishment that is philosophically empty and esthetically corrupt.

Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-century England

Author : Philip Ayres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-century England written by Philip Ayres and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Age of the Classics in America

Author : Carl J Richard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054490
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the Classics in America written by Carl J Richard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful study Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers. The Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system in a way that steadily eroded the preeminence of the classics.

From Classicism to Modernism

Author : Brian K. Etter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351735071
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book From Classicism to Modernism written by Brian K. Etter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910

Author : Paul B. Niell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826353770
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910 written by Paul B. Niell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

Author : Eric Adler
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130153
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond written by Eric Adler and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s

The Myth of Paganism

Author : Robert Shorrock
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519663
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Paganism written by Robert Shorrock and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored, as though it has no meaningful part to play within the late antique world. The Myth of Paganism sets out to deconstruct this view of two contrasting poetic traditions and proposes in its place a new integrated model for the understanding of late antique poetry. As the book argues, the poet of Christ and the poet of the Muses were drawn together into an active, often provocative, dialogue about the relationship between Christianity and the Classical tradition and, ultimately, about the meaning of late antiquity itself. An analysis of the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis, author of both a 'pagan' epic about Dionysus and a Christian translation of St John's Gospel, helps to illustrate this complex dialectic between pagan and Christian voices.

Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Author : Tessa Roynon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501670
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition written by Tessa Roynon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussion, she argues that Morrison's classical allusiveness is characterized by a strategic ambivalence. Adopting a thematic, rather than novel-by-novel approach, Roynon demonstrates that Morrison's classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American history and culture that her work effects. Building on recent developments in race theory, transnational studies, and Classical Reception studies, the volume positions Morrison within a genealogy of intellectuals who have challenged the purported conservative nature of Greek and Roman tradition, and who have revealed its construction as a 'white' or pure and purifying force to be a fabrication of the Enlightenment. Exploring the ways in which Morrison's dialogue with Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, and Ovid relates to her simultaneous dialogue with many other American literary forebears - from Cotton Mather to Willa Cather, or from Pauline Hopkins to F.Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner - Roynon shows that Morrison's classicism enables her to fulfil her own imperative that 'the past has to be revised'.