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3 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
539 kr
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The Christian Revolutionary offers a profound and reflective exploration of the shifting perception of classical art, its cultural resonance, and its philosophical underpinnings. Through evocative descriptions of the Parthenon and its surrounding landscape, the text delves into the intricate interplay between historical reverence and contemporary disillusionment. The author examines how classical art, once heralded as the pinnacle of intellectual and artistic achievement, is increasingly seen as remote and academic by modern audiences. Against the backdrop of changing cultural values and a growing skepticism of idealism, the book invites readers to ponder the enduring relevance of Greek art and its unique commentary on life, intellect, and harmony.This work is more than a critique of cultural shifts; it is a meditation on the contrasts between ancient and modern worldviews. It juxtaposes the Greek aspiration for intellectual and aesthetic purity with the modern embrace of complexity, imperfection, and personal expression. Through the lens of the Parthenon—both as a physical structure and a symbol of philosophical ideals—the book challenges readers to consider how art reflects the spirit of its age and how the ideals of the past might illuminate the uncertainties of the present. The Christian Revolutionary is an intellectually rich and deeply poetic exploration that will captivate readers interested in philosophy, art history, and the timeless dialogue between antiquity and modernity.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 246 kr
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The Christian Revolutionary offers a profound and reflective exploration of the shifting perception of classical art, its cultural resonance, and its philosophical underpinnings. Through evocative descriptions of the Parthenon and its surrounding landscape, the text delves into the intricate interplay between historical reverence and contemporary disillusionment. The author examines how classical art, once heralded as the pinnacle of intellectual and artistic achievement, is increasingly seen as remote and academic by modern audiences. Against the backdrop of changing cultural values and a growing skepticism of idealism, the book invites readers to ponder the enduring relevance of Greek art and its unique commentary on life, intellect, and harmony.This work is more than a critique of cultural shifts; it is a meditation on the contrasts between ancient and modern worldviews. It juxtaposes the Greek aspiration for intellectual and aesthetic purity with the modern embrace of complexity, imperfection, and personal expression. Through the lens of the Parthenon—both as a physical structure and a symbol of philosophical ideals—the book challenges readers to consider how art reflects the spirit of its age and how the ideals of the past might illuminate the uncertainties of the present. The Christian Revolutionary is an intellectually rich and deeply poetic exploration that will captivate readers interested in philosophy, art history, and the timeless dialogue between antiquity and modernity.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Del 22 - Studies in Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed
A Spectator’s Role
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 088 kr
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Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies. Utilizing Shakespeare’s European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de Vega, and following forms such as Aristotle’s second, more popular style of tragedy (a double ending of punishment for the evil and honor for the good), Hugh Macrae Richmond elicits radical revision of traditional interpretations of the scripts. The analysis includes a major shift in emphasis from conventionally tragic concerns to a more varied blend of tones, characterizations, and situations, designed to hold spectator interest rather than to meet neoclassical standards of coherence, focus, and progression. This reinterpretation also bears on modern staging and directorial emphasis, challenging the relevance of traditional norms of tragedy to production of Renaissance drama. The stress shifts to plays’ counter-movements to tragic tones, and to scripts’ contrasting positive factors to common downbeat interpretations – such as the role of humor in King Lear and the significance of residual leadership in the tragedies as seen in the roles of Malcolm, Edgar, Cassio, and Octavius, as well as the broader progressions in such continuities as those within Shakespeare’s Roman world from Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra to Cymbeline. It becomes apparent that the authority of the spectator in such Shakespearean titles as What You Will and As You Like It may bear meaningfully on interpretation of more plays than just the comedies.