Silent Urns - Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity

"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is--there is no way to overemphasize this--an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." --Carol Jacobs, State University of New York, Buffalo

About the author

David Ferris is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Theory and the Evasion of History and the editor of Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Essays (Stanford, 1996).

Summary

The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: David Ferris, David S. Ferris
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780804735834
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3583-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies