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Ancients Against Moderns
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Author : Joan DeJean
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-03-15
Ancients Against Moderns written by Joan DeJean and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-15 with Education categories.
As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - the time of a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns.
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Author : Joan DeJean
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-02-15
Ancients Against Moderns written by Joan DeJean and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
As the end of the century approaches, many predict our fin de siècle will mirror the nineteenth-century decline into decadence. But a better model for the 1990s is to be found, according to Joan DeJean, in the culture wars of France in the 1690s—the time of a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. DeJean brilliantly reassesses our current culture wars from the perspective of that earlier fin de siècle (the first to think of itself as such), and rereads the seventeenth-century Quarrel from the vantage of our own warring "ancients" and "moderns." In so doing, DeJean shows that a fin de siècle taking place in the shadow of culture wars can be more a source of constructive cultural revolution than of apocalyptic gloom and doom. Just as the first fin de siècle's battle of the books served as the spark that set off the Enlightenment, introducing radically new sexual and social politics that laid the groundwork for modernity, so can our current culture wars result in radical, liberating changes—if we take an active stand against our own "ancients" who seek to stifle such reforms.
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Author : Joan E. DeJean
language : en
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Release Date : 1997
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The Shock Of The Ancient
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Author : Larry F. Norman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
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The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed the expression of cultural differences, the ancient world presented a disturbing face of otherness. Larry F. Norman explores how the authoritative status of ancient Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. The Shock of the Ancient surveys the diverse array of aesthetic models presented in these ancient works and considers how they both helped to undermine the rigid codes of neoclassicism and paved the way for the innovative philosophies of the Enlightenment. Broadly appealing to students of European literature, art history, and philosophy, this book is an important contribution to early modern literary and cultural debates.
Ancients And Moderns
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language : en
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Release Date : 1964
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Ancients And Moderns In Europe
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Author : Paddy Bullard
language : en
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Release Date : 2016
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The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, or Battle of the Books as it was known in England, famously pitted the Ancients on the one side and the Moderns on the other. This book presents a new intellectual history of the dispute, in which authors explore its manifestations across Europe in the arts and sciences, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. By paying close attention to local institutional contexts for the Querelle, contributors yield a complex picture of the larger debate. In intellectual life, authors uncover how the debate affected the publication of antiquarian scholarship, and how it became part of discussions in London coffee houses and the periodical press. Authors also position the Low Countries as the true pivot for a modernistic realignment of intellectual method, with concomitant rather than centralised developments in England and France. The volume is particularly concerned with the realisation of the Querelle in the realm of artistic and technical practice. Marrying modern approaches with ancient sympathies was fraught with difficulties, as contributors attest in analyses on musical writing, painting and the 'querelle du coloris', architectural practice and medical rhetorics. Tracing the deeper cultural resonances of the dispute, authors conclude by revealing how it fostered a new tendency to cultural self-reflection throughout Europe. Together, these contributions demonstrate how the Querelle acted as a leading principle for the configuration of knowledge across the arts and sciences throughout the early modern period, and also emphasise the links between historical debates and our contemporary understanding of what it means to be 'modern'.
The Eternal Feud
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Author : Neal Ward Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-01-13
The Eternal Feud written by Neal Ward Gilbert and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-13 with History categories.
While the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns became a famous topic in the seventeenth century, debate about the relative merits of ancient and modern figures has been a feature of Western culture since the Greeks. Up through the Middle Ages the term “ancient” was ambiguous with respect to historical time. It was Petrarch, the great Humanist of the early Italian Renaissance, who gave the Greeks and Romans of the pre-Christian era their fixed and prestigious status as capitalized Ancients.In this wide-ranging work of extraordinary scholarship, historian of philosophy Neal Ward Gilbert explores the Renaissance pre-history of the Quarrel. He traces the ancient/modern contrast through poetry, oratory, philosophy, science, the fine arts and other fields of intellectual achievement.As Gilbert demonstrates, “The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns was much more than a mere scribblers' feud: what was at stake was not simply literary reputations and stylistic preferences but ways of looking at history, at the development of the arts and sciences, and at the prospects for their future contribution to man's welfare.”
The Liberty Of Ancients Compared With That Of Moderns
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Author : Benjamin Constant
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
The Liberty Of Ancients Compared With That Of Moderns written by Benjamin Constant and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Fiction categories.
This is an essay by Benjamin Constant. In this essay, Constant contrasted two views on freedom: one held by "the Ancients," particularly those in Classical Greece, and the other by members of modern societies. He investigates the dangers of attempting to impose ancient liberty in a modern context, as well as the risks associated with each type of liberty. The danger of ancient liberty was that men, preoccupied with securing their share of social power, might place too little value on individual rights and pleasures. The danger of modern liberty is that we will give up our right to participate in political power too easily, absorbed in the enjoyment of our independence and the pursuit of our particular interests." Constant believes that the two types of liberty must eventually be combined.
Literary Imagination Ancient And Modern
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Author : Todd Breyfogle
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-11
Literary Imagination Ancient And Modern written by Todd Breyfogle and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11 with Education categories.
Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and illuminating the human condition. Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of translation, and in English history, these essays include discussions of the Odyssey and Ulysses, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarmé's English and T. S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the first time the contours of Grene's own thought. Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of their themes. Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle, Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N. Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Françoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy
The Ancients And The Moderns
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Author : Stanley Rosen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Ancients And The Moderns written by Stanley Rosen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.