Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural ExpressionsStanford University Press, 1997 - 344 من الصفحات Through a combination of general reflections, studies of important critics, and both comprehensive and specific analyses of cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy, Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development. The book proposes that works do not timelessly abstract, retrospectively reflect, or passively express; instead, they promote and shape historical change. Moving rather than consolidating, cultural expressions advance cultures not through what they say (musical works, in particular, say nothing) but through inventing new ways of communicating. Styles and forms are the vessels imagined by cultural works to convey ideas, ideologies, and structures of feeling and society. Hence, in contrast to much recent work in cultural studies, Turning Points argues that works of the imagination anticipate and produce the intellectual contexts adduced to explain them. The book offers new insights into both the theory and the practice of cultural history by combining general meditations with studies of representative theorists and of works and periods in movement. Two framing chapters reflect on the constant flow of history as guided by the energy of form. Of the remaining nine chapters (two of which are previously unpublished), three chapters analyze important theorists: the concept of style in the work of Hippolyte Taine, expressive flux in the formalism of the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, and stylistic energy in the work of the Marxist literary critic Jerome J. McGann. Six critical studies sample works and periods ranging in time from the Renaissance through modernism, with close readings of passages and works by Coleridge, the neo-Latin poet Casimir Sarbiewski, Kant, Descartes, Thomas Parnell, and Mozart, and general considerations of style change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In sum, Turning Points presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the achievements of modern European culture that blends fine-grained examples with broad considerations of both intellectual history and trends in literary criticism. |
المحتوى
Errours Endlesse Traine | 3 |
The Lessons of Taines History | 33 |
On the Principle | 88 |
Whats in a Text? | 114 |
Deconstruction and Enlightenment | 131 |
The Revolution in Musical Consciousness | 138 |
Kants Misreading of Descartes | 156 |
Romanticism and Enlightenment | 195 |
Musical Structures | 220 |
The Force of Form | 239 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Antinous Art History artist baroque becomes Beethoven called century chapter Charles Rosen cogito Cogito ergo sum Coleridge Coleridge's concept consciousness contrast critical critique cultural dance deconstruction Descartes Descartes's dialectic English Literature Enlightenment Eroica Symphony essay example existence expression force formal French French Revolution Goethe Hegel Heinrich Wölfflin Hippolyte Taine History of English human imagination Kant Kant's Keats Keats's language lines literary logic Mallarmé McGann meaning ment milieu mind movement Mozart nature negation never object odes original painting passage past Philosophie de l'art phrase poem poet poetic poetry present Principles of Art pure Quartet remains Renaissance reverie revolution rhetoric Romantic Romanticism Sarbiewski says seems sense social speak spirit stanza structure style stylistic symphony Taine Taine's textual Textual Criticism things thought Tintern Abbey tion tive tonality translation true truth unheard melody voice Wölfflin word Wordsworth writing
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الصفحة xiv - When Loie Fuller's Chinese dancers enwound A shining web, a floating ribbon of cloth, It seemed that a dragon of air Had fallen among dancers, had whirled them round Or hurried them off on its own furious path...