Author: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Soldier and Scholar
Author: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond
Author: Eric Adler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130153
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130153
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s
All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way
Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazines Michael O'Brien assembles fourteen pieces that effectively challenge the long-prevailing notion that the mind of the Old South was superficial, unintellectual, and obsessed with race and slavery. In this book are discourses on subjects ranging from English empirical thought to neoclassical aesthetics, from the enfranchisement of women to transcendental theology, from the works of Hawthorne and Emerson to the social system of Virginia.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazines Michael O'Brien assembles fourteen pieces that effectively challenge the long-prevailing notion that the mind of the Old South was superficial, unintellectual, and obsessed with race and slavery. In this book are discourses on subjects ranging from English empirical thought to neoclassical aesthetics, from the enfranchisement of women to transcendental theology, from the works of Hawthorne and Emerson to the social system of Virginia.
The Classical Commentary
Author: Gibson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary practice and theory, with special emphasis on Galen, Tzetzes, and La Cerda; the relationship between the author of the primary text, the commentary writer, and the reader; special problems posed by fragmentary and spurious texts; the role and scope of citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and revision; the practical future of commentary-writing and publication; and the way computers are changing the shape of the classical commentary. With a genesis in discussion panels mounted in the UK in 1996 and the US in 1997, the volume continues recent international dialogue on the genre and future of commentaries.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary practice and theory, with special emphasis on Galen, Tzetzes, and La Cerda; the relationship between the author of the primary text, the commentary writer, and the reader; special problems posed by fragmentary and spurious texts; the role and scope of citation, selectivity, lemmatization, and revision; the practical future of commentary-writing and publication; and the way computers are changing the shape of the classical commentary. With a genesis in discussion panels mounted in the UK in 1996 and the US in 1997, the volume continues recent international dialogue on the genre and future of commentaries.
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 83
Author: Albert Henrichs
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674379305
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume of fourteen articles includes "The Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes," by Susan Scheinberg; "Eleatic Conventionalism and Philolaus on the Conditions of Thought," by Martha Craven Nussbaum; "The Basis of Stoic Ethics," by Nicholas P. White; "New Comedy, Callimachus, and Roman Poetry," by Richard F. Thomas; "On Cicero's Speeches," by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and "Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii," by Ronald Syme.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674379305
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume of fourteen articles includes "The Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes," by Susan Scheinberg; "Eleatic Conventionalism and Philolaus on the Conditions of Thought," by Martha Craven Nussbaum; "The Basis of Stoic Ethics," by Nicholas P. White; "New Comedy, Callimachus, and Roman Poetry," by Richard F. Thomas; "On Cicero's Speeches," by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and "Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii," by Ronald Syme.
Wisdom's Workshop
Author: James Axtell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691247587
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of preāCivil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691247587
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of preāCivil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.
Joseph Scaliger: Textual criticism and exegesis
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198148500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of the late Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods. Volume I of this study was published in 1983, and received wide critical attention.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198148500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of the late Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods. Volume I of this study was published in 1983, and received wide critical attention.
A.E. Housman at University College London
Author: Naiditch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004663657
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004663657
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Rationalist Criticism of Greek Tragedy
Author: James E. Ford
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739112199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Literary critical revolutions-radical shifts in interpretation and evaluation of literary works and their authors-are among the most interesting of cultural phenomena. In order to gain greater understanding of the mechanisms of all critical revolutions, Rationalist Criticism in Greek Tragedy examines the late nineteenth-century 'rehabilitation' of Euripides. Some of the factors which contributed to the Euripidean revolution are well known, but one which is not-one which has been generally forgotten, when it has not actually been denied-is the role of Rationalist Criticism. Rationalist Criticism, founded and dominated by infamous Cambridge University Classicist and English scholar A. W. Verrall, was generally deprecated by mainstream classicists when it first appeared, and those who happen to come upon it today tend to treat it dismissively-a tendency the great classicist Eduard Fraenkel thought 'should be strongly resisted.' The influence of Rationalist Criticism-inside and outside of classical studies-has been much greater than has been generally supposed. James E. Ford makes the case for the larger significance of what Verrall and the Rationalist Critics were doing within the history not just of Euripidean criticism but of literary studies generally. Ford reads the rationalists on their own terms, drawing on the disciplines of the history of scholarship and the history and theory of literary criticism making this study unique. It should appeal to anyone interested in intellectual history, especially instances of significant intellectual changes (a la Kuhnian revolutions), and, especially, changes in the interpretation and evaluation of authors and their works. The work should be of specific interest to classicists, academic historians, and critical theorists.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739112199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Literary critical revolutions-radical shifts in interpretation and evaluation of literary works and their authors-are among the most interesting of cultural phenomena. In order to gain greater understanding of the mechanisms of all critical revolutions, Rationalist Criticism in Greek Tragedy examines the late nineteenth-century 'rehabilitation' of Euripides. Some of the factors which contributed to the Euripidean revolution are well known, but one which is not-one which has been generally forgotten, when it has not actually been denied-is the role of Rationalist Criticism. Rationalist Criticism, founded and dominated by infamous Cambridge University Classicist and English scholar A. W. Verrall, was generally deprecated by mainstream classicists when it first appeared, and those who happen to come upon it today tend to treat it dismissively-a tendency the great classicist Eduard Fraenkel thought 'should be strongly resisted.' The influence of Rationalist Criticism-inside and outside of classical studies-has been much greater than has been generally supposed. James E. Ford makes the case for the larger significance of what Verrall and the Rationalist Critics were doing within the history not just of Euripidean criticism but of literary studies generally. Ford reads the rationalists on their own terms, drawing on the disciplines of the history of scholarship and the history and theory of literary criticism making this study unique. It should appeal to anyone interested in intellectual history, especially instances of significant intellectual changes (a la Kuhnian revolutions), and, especially, changes in the interpretation and evaluation of authors and their works. The work should be of specific interest to classicists, academic historians, and critical theorists.
Selected Offprints
Author: Henry Washington Prescott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description