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This book explores the history of the idea of genius from its origins in classical antiquity to its deconstruction in postmodernist criticism. Focusing mainly on the creative arts, the book examines certain key points in the development of the idea, and also addresses the problem of what constitutes genius in specific subject areas. Experts in different fields have contributed chapters on literature, art, music, mathematics, philosophy and psychiatry to produce a volume which illuminates an abiding obsession throughout the history of European culture.The contributors to this volume show how the ancient image of the inspired poet and the Renaissance conception of the divino artista both anticipate later notions of genius, developed into the 18th century around the central figures of Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. Romantic definitions of genius are analysed, as are the implications of Nietzsche's pronouncements on 'human greatness'. The historic conjunction of genius and madness is explored from the early belief in divine possession through the Renaissance notion of melancholy to the age of psychoanalysis.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- -Genius --- -Creative ability --- Intelligence levels --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- History --- Europe --- Intellectual life. --- -History --- Gifted persons --- Intellectual life --- Genius --- Génie --- Création (esthétique) --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle
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More wide-ranging in its implications than the English 'music', mousike lay at the heart of Greek culture, and was often indeed synonymous with culture. These essays analyse the theory and practice of musical performance in a variety of social contexts demonstrating the centrality of mousike.
Music, Greek and Roman --- Musique grecque et romaine --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Greece --- Grèce --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Performing arts --- Social aspects. --- History --- Grèce --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Greek music --- Music, Greek (Ancient) --- Music, Roman --- Roman music --- Music --- Music [Greek and Roman ] --- To 1500 --- To 146 B.C. --- Recreation & Sports --- Music Literature --- Social Sciences --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film
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The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media-oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges
Aesthetics, Ancient. --- Esthétique ancienne --- Aesthetics, Ancient --- Esthétique antique --- Esthétique ancienne --- Esthétique antique.
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Poetics --- Poétique --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Early works to 1800. --- Poetics - Early works to 1800.
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Theory of knowledge --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- -Philosophy --- History --- Philosophy
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An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context.
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Dossier : L’individu, objet de tous les regards : telle est la perspective adoptée par ce dossier. Si le vêtement occupe une place centrale dans cette enquête, l’histoire des apparences ne s’y réduit pas. Traits physiques et de caractère, tenue extérieure et nudité étudiée, parures et coiffures, odeurs et attitudes, constituent un large ensemble de significations, celui du « vêtement total ». Moyens de catégorisation et d’évaluation morale, modes d’intervention délibérée dans le champ des interactions sociales, les manières de s’habiller et de se déshabiller témoignent d’un contrôle visuel quasi permanent exercé sur les corps depuis les mondes archaïques grec et étrusque jusqu’à la Rome impériale. Varia : Une série d’articles suit ce dossier thématique et aborde des sujets très variés : parmi d’autres, le mythe des Lemniennes, la question du statut des Muses, celle de la discorde (éris) dans les récits de fondation, l’implication du stratège athénien Timothée dans une guerre civile à Zakinthos au ive siècle, la représentation divine en Nabatène, la procédure de la description des œuvres d’art – ekphrasis – chez Philostrate, ou encore, dans une perspective méthodologique et historiographique, la pratique de la méthode comparative par les historiens anthropologues de la Grèce ancienne.
Clothing and dress --- Vêtements --- History --- Histoire --- Vêtements --- History & Archaeology --- Anthropology --- identité --- vêtement --- parfum --- Grèce ancienne --- saleté --- sordes --- nudité --- corps --- sport --- acte de parole --- lemniennes --- muse --- Théogonie --- Diodore de Sicile --- Éris --- syncrétismes religieux --- philosophie présocratique --- mythe --- Philostrate --- polythéisme --- comparatisme --- Ancient Greece --- athlete --- body --- polytheism --- comparison --- Philostratus --- myth --- Theogony --- Diodorus Siculus --- clothing --- identity --- nudity
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