Potolsky

Coll Works Walter Pater V8 Cwwp C

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Produktbeschreibung

Classical Studies is the eighth volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. This volume presents Pater's classical studies, which offer revisionary accounts of Greek myths and undertake original interpretations of the history of Greek sculpture and tragedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198861928
• ISBN-10: 0198861923
• Artikelnr.: 59757229

Autorenporträt

Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de siècle in Britain and France and is the author of Mimesis (2006), The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013), and The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (2019), and is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Critical Introduction
Textual Introduction
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone
A Study of Dionysus
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture / I. The Heroic Age of Greek Art / II. The Age of Graven Images
The Marbles of Aegina
The Bacchanals of Euripides
The Age of Athletic Prizemen
Textual Variants
Explanatory Notes
Appendix A: Ancient Sources in Classical Studies
Appendix B: Shadwell's 'Preface' to Greek Studies (1895)