Download or read book Europ ischer Philhellenismus written by Evangelos Konstantinou and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Rezeption der antiken griechischen Literatur, die bei den Römern begann, wird bis heute in allen europäischen Ländern fortgesetzt. Sie ist nicht als passives Lernen oder rezeptive Grundhaltung im Gegensatz zur schöpferischen zu verstehen. Sie bildet vielmehr die Grundlage zum Erkennen und Schaffen von etwas Neuem, das den jeweils neuen Bedürfnissen entspricht. Mit der Rezeption der antiken Literatur wurden die Altgriechen als Lehrmeister der europäischen Nationen gefeiert. Aus dieser Bewunderung erwuchs später ein tatkräftiger europäischer Philhellenismus. Die hier veröffentlichten 24 Beiträge liefern das Zeugnis für die schöpferische und formende Kraft der klassischen Literatur in unserer Zeit, und damit beweisen sie die Kontinuität der europäischen Literatur von Homer bis heute.
Download or read book Imagining Europe written by Michael J. Wintle and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this research collection are not so much interested in what Europe thinks of itself, but rather what others think of it. They take a number of scenarios from recent history and examine how Europe has appeared to people in other parts of the world: America, China, the Arab world, for example.
Download or read book Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism written by Martin Vöhler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key aspects of philhellenism – political self-determination, freedom, beauty, individual greatness – originate in antiquity and present a complex reception history. The force of European philhellenism derives from ancient Roman idealizations, which have been drawn on by European movements since the Enlightenment. How is philhellenism able to transcend national, cultural and epochal limits? The articles collected in this volume deal with (1) the ancient conceptualization of philhellenism, (2) the actualization and politicization of the term at the time of the European Restoration (1815–30), and (3) the transformation of philhellenism into a pan-European movement. During the Greek struggle for independence the different receptions of philhellenism regain a common focus; philhellenism becomes an inextricable element in the creation of a pan-European identity and a starting point for the regeneration and modernization of Greece. – It is easy to criticize the tradition of philhellenism as being simplistic, naïve, and self-serving, but there is an irreducibly utopian element in later philhellenic idealizations of ancient Greece.
Download or read book The Hero and Hero Making Across Genres written by Amar Singh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are constructed across genres, mediums, and traditions. The essays in this volume present fresh perspectives for readers to conceptualize the myriad possibilities the term ‘Hero’ brings with itself. They examine the making and unmaking of the heroes across literary, visual and social cultures —in religious spaces and in classical texts; in folk tales and fairy tales; in literature, as seen in Heinrich Böll’s Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Thomas Brüssig’s Heroes like Us, and in movies, like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and in the short film like Dean Potter's When Dogs Fly. The volume also features nuanced takes on intersectional feminist representations in hero movies; masculinity in sports biopics; taking everyday heroes from the real to the reel, among others key themes. A stimulating work that explores the mechanisms that ‘manufacture’ heroes, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, film studies, media studies, literary and critical theory, arts and aesthetics, political sociology and political philosophy.
Download or read book Imagology written by Manfred Beller and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagologyis intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.
Download or read book That Greece Might Still be Free written by William St. Clair and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sympathy of the world. As Byron wrote, 'I dreamed that Greece might Still be Free'; and he died at Missolonghi trying to translate that dream into reality. William St Clair's meticulously researched and highly readable account of their aspirations and experiences was hailed as definitive when it was first published. Long out of print, it remains the standard account of the Philhellenic movement and essential reading for any students of the Greek War of Independence, Byron, and European Romanticism. Its relevance to more modern ethnic and religious conflicts is becoming increasingly appreciated by scholars worldwide. This new and revised edition includes a new Introduction by Roderick Beaton, an updated Bibliography and many new illustrations.
Download or read book Placing Modern Greece written by Constanze Guthenke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscape imagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether Greece as a modern entity in the making can be represented at all. Offering readings from German and contemporaneous Greek authors, Guthenke supplies a commentary on the translation and crossings of representational models and their limits.
Download or read book European Investment in Greece in the Nineteenth Century written by Korinna Schönhärl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers’ deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation. This book shows that the decision-making processes of nineteenth-century bankers contemplating high-risk financial markets like Greece are just as complex as present-day investment decisions. The book, now published in English after a first German edition, offers in-depth studies of decision making in concrete historical situations, considering political and economic circumstances and also the individual background of the actors concerned, including a reflection on the influence of cultural movements such as Philhellenism. Employing methodological inspirations from the field of behavioural finance, the book analyses a broad range of published and unpublished English, French, Greek, German and Swiss sources on European investment in Greece between 1821 and the Balkan wars. Additionally, rich insights into Greek economic history, the economic integration of the country into Europe and long-lasting European stereotypes of Southern Europe and Greece are provided; this furthers understanding of the historical background of the Greek financial crisis after 2009. In combining the perspectives of financial, economic, political and cultural history, this book is primarily significant for students of various fields of historiography. Due to its strong awareness of methodological questions, it is also of great interest to academic historians. In addition, the strong public interest in the Greek financial crisis after 2009 and its consequences for Europe will, thirdly, attract the interest of a broader public.
Download or read book German Literature History and the Nation written by Christian Emden and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole of the modern period. This volume highlights the connections between cultural identity and the sense of nationhood which are to be found in literary writing, the history of ideas, and the interaction between European cultures from the late Middle Ages to the present day. It focuses particularly on the way myths of cultural identity are passed on and transformed historically; on the fashioning of various models of modern German identity with reference to the cultures of Greece, France, England and Renaissance Italy; on the reflection of 19th-century nationalism in literary writing and ideas about language; and on the ways in which cultural values have asserted themselves in relation to moments of catastrophe and abrupt political change in the 1920s, the 1940s, and the 1990s.
Download or read book European Modernity and the Passionate South written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated.
Download or read book August Myhrberg and North European Philhellenism written by Petra Pakkanen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Graecomania written by Gilbert Hess and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seit der Klassik und Winckelmanns wirkmächtigen Studien zur Kunstgeschichte bilden die drei Topoi "Griechische Antike", "Kunst" und "Freiheit" eine imaginäre Einheit, die geradezu divinatorische Züge annehmen konnte und ein Modell des klassisch inspirierten Kulturstaates zu begründen half. Im Umfeld des griechischen Freiheitskampfes verband sich dieses ästhetische Ideal mit einer virulent politischen Dimension: Der 1821 ausbrechende Aufstand gegen die Osmanen schürte die Hoffnung, ein neues und freies Griechenland als europäischen Modellstaat errichten zu können. Im Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Diskurse gelegen, konnten die Ereignisse im Zeichen des Philhellenismus in gleicher Weise als Glaubenskrieg des Christentums gegen den Islam, als Aufbegehren eines unterdrückten Volkes gegen die Obrigkeit (und damit als Projektionsfläche demokratischer Wunschvorstellungen im bürgerlichen Vormärz) sowie als vermeintliche Renaissance eines antiken Idealzustands gesehen werden. Die Verbindung klassizistischer und romantischer Ideale initiierte ebenso wie der gezielte Einsatz unterschiedlicher Medien eine stände- und schichtenübergreifende Wirksamkeit und ermöglichte eine bislang ungekannte Massenmobilisierung, die in einer kaum überschaubaren Menge literarischer und künstlerischer Erzeugnisse ihren Niederschlag fand. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band mit Beiträgen aus Frankreich, Italien, den USA und Deutschland analysiert die Bedeutung des Philhellenismus für die Ausbildung eines ästhetisch-kulturellen Europagedankens und untersucht vergleichend seine Rezeptionsgeschichte in den europäischen Ländern.
Download or read book Methodios und Kyrillos in ihrer europ ischen Dimension written by Ευάγγελος Κωνσταντίνου and published by Philhellenische Studien. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Europäische Zentrum für wissenschaftliche, ökumenische und kulturelle Zusammenarbeit mit seinem Sitz in Würzburg hat die Kyrillo-methodianische Forschung zu ihrem Anliegen gemacht. Die byzantinischen Slavenapostel Methodios (815-885) und Kyrillos (826-869) aus Thessaloniki können als Vorreiter einer kirchlichen und politischen Einheit der heutigen Diskussion über dieses Thema entscheidende Impulse geben. Die zehn Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit der europäischen Dimension des Missionswerkes der genannten Gebrüder, die aufgrund ihrer immensen Leistung 1980 von Papst Paul II. als Patrone Europas gefeiert wurden. Ihr Wirken in Mähren und Pannonien fiel in die Zeit einer höchst kritischen Wende der kirchlichen und politischen Beziehungen zwischen Ost und West. Als die politische und kirchliche Entfremdung begann, kamen Methodios und Kyrillos nach Südost- und Westeuropa als Boten einer ungetrennten Kirche und als Träger einer großen byzantinischen Kulturexpansion, welche die Fundamente einer eigenständigen Kulturtradition legen sollte. Die renommierten Referenten dieses Bandes sind allen Fragen, die mit Leben und Wirken dieser Slavenapostel zusammenhängen, auf den Grund gegangen und konnten neue Aspekte bezüglich des gesamten Fragenkomplexes aufzeigen.
Download or read book In Byron s Shadow written by David Ernest Roessel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bryon's Shadow draws on a wide range of sources to create a model for literary history that synthesizes literary investigation and cultural studies to develop a fuller understanding of the historical forces influencing the Anglo-American conception of modern Greece."--Jacket.
Download or read book Austrian Greek Encounters Over the Centuries written by Herbert Kröll and published by Studien Verlag, Austria. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian-Greek Encounters over the Centuries does not only look back to the past, but it also tries to develop perspectives for the future. It sheds new light on an incredible wealth and diversity of important links between Austria and Greece. Two highly visible expressions of this intense relationship, amongst many others, are the emblematic buildings of the Academy of Athens and the Austrian Parliament with the Athena Fountain in front. This is why these two buildings, which were both officially opened in 1883 and designed by the same architect, Theophil Hansen, are shown on the front cover of this book. They bear witness to the strong relationship between Austrian and Greek culture over the centuries and moreover testify to the continuing relevance of the Hellenic culture in the middle of Europe.
Download or read book Political Extremes written by Uwe Backes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western tradition of a sovereign state, which roots go back to antiquity, inherited a centre vouching for virtuous moderation. This book compares this tradition with what it quintessentially objects to: political extremes.
Download or read book Byzantinische Stoffe und Motive in der europ ischen Literatur des 19 und 20 Jahrhunderts written by Evangelos Konstantinou and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die 19 Beiträge dieses Bandes füllen eine große Lücke in der heutigen Literaturwissenschaft und Byzantinistik. Während die antike griechische Rezeption in der europäischen Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts seit langem Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen ist, bleibt die byzantinistische Komponente außer acht. Ohne Byzanz wäre das antike griechische Erbe undenkbar. Denn hier wurden die Werke der altgriechischen Autoren mit besonderer Vorliebe gelesen, studiert, kommentiert und kopiert. Die byzantinischen Stoffe und Motive, die in engem Zusammenhang mit der antiken griechischen literarischen Tradition stehen, begegnen uns auch in der Literatur der ost- und westeuropäischen Länder. Die Bedeutung Byzanz' für das kulturelle Erbe der Länder, die mit ihm in Berührung kamen, wird dadurch deutlich. Gleichzeitig wird das gemeinsame europäische kulturelle Erbe wiederentdeckt, das der heutigen Diskussion über ein multikulturelles Europa neue Anregungen geben kann.
