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The Classical Tradition
Ingo Gildenhard, Michael Silk, Rosemary Barrow, et al.
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Altertum
Beschreibung
The classical tradition--the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome--is a large, diverse and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, 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 - English-speaking, French, German and Italian - from a classical perspective. Encompassing almost two millennia of developments in art, literature, and thought, the authors provide an overview of the field, a concise point of reference, and a critical review of selected examples, from Titian to T. S. Eliot, from the hero to concepts of government. They engage in current theoretical debate on various fronts, from hermeneutics to gender. Themes explored include the Western languages and their continuing engagement with Latin and Greek; the role of translation; the intricate relationship of pagan and Christian; the ideological implications of the classical tradition; the interplay between the classical tradition and the histories of scholarship and education; the relation between high and low culture; and the myriad complex relationships--comparative, contrastive, and interactive--between art, literature, and thought themselves. Authoritative and accessible, The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought offers new insights into the powerful legacy of the ancient world from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day.
Rezensionen
"It conducts, to its great benefit and ours, a properly theoretical enquiry....The book's structure and contents are highly innovative, with short, packed chapters, in the main driven by ideas not data, jointly written throughout by the three authors with their complementary expertise (so giving an intellectual consistency that a multi-authored volume necessarily lacks)... It belongs in the library of anyone who seriously cares about Western culture."
"The authors are able to write a most readable book that has the merit to summarize the topic of the afterlife of antiquity with a variety not common in other books on the same subject. The emphasis on architecture, and not only on visual arts, and the references to political and aesthetic thought are most welcome."
"Reorganizes the field and challenges our preconceptions in both familiar areas and in disciplines that are not usually treated in studies on the classical tradition. A must read."
--Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University
"An exciting read: energetic, considered, sparklingly written. One gets the feeling that all angles have been properly covered. An ambitious project brilliantly realized."
--Matthew Bell, King'
"The authors have pulled off the seemingly impossible task of fusing their three voices into a single, urgently argued discourse, and for that reason among many others, this will be a wonderful book to read and to use, for all kinds of readers."
--Terence Cave, St John'
"I found the text very readable and I particularly enjoyed the post-post-modernist take on many issues. It is hugely stimulating and intriguing throughout."
--Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge
"I think this is an absolutely splendid text, unique in conception, elegant and ingenious in design, and extremely 'user-friendly' in styling and presentation."
--David Hopkins, Bristol University
Kundenbewertungen
Antike u. klassische Literatur, Art History & Criticism, Rezeption der Antike, Reception of the Ancient World, Art & Applied Arts, Humanistische Studien, Kunstgeschichte, Ancient & Classical Literature, Classical Studies, Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst, Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik