Tom Winnifrith

Leisure in Art and Literature

Herausgegeben:Mallett, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The description or depiction of leisure activities has formed part of the subject matter of art and literature for a long time. This volume looks at funeral games in Homer, leisure as depicted in painting, and the part that literature played in promoting athleticism in public schools and Oxbridge.

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Produktdetails

• Warwick Studies in the European Humanities
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-11355-2
• 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 159
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9781349113552
• ISBN-10: 1349113557
• Artikelnr.: 44458349

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; C.Barrett - Funeral Games of Homer and Vergil; T.J.Winnifrith - Leisure and Civilization in English Literature; E.Larrissy - Up Tails All: Leisure, Pleasure and Paranoia in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; G.Hyde - P.G.Wodehouse: The Case of Leisure as the Sole Topic of an Author's Output; S.J.S.Ickringill - Leisure in Western Painting; C.Barrett - Audiences, Art and Theatre: The Justification of Leisure and Images of the Eighteenth Century English Stage; S.West - Harold Abrahams: Athlete, Author and Amateur; J.Bromhead - 'To the Glory that was Greece': Classical Images in Public School Athletics; M.Tozer - Lamentable Barbarians and Pitiful Sheep: Rhetoric of Protest in Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Oxbridge'; J.A.Mangan