Silent urns

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"The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in eighteenth-century aesthetics. He argues that Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art (1764) produced this reconciliation by developing a concept of culture that effectively defined our modern understanding of the term, as well as our sense of what it is to be modern. From this reconciliation, Greece emerges as the form in which culture is first conceptualized as a historically and politically defined category."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: English poetry,  German literature,  Greece,  Greek influences,  Greek literature,  Hellenism,  History and criticism,  In literature,  Knowledge,  Modernism (Literature),  Mythology, Greek, in literature,  Romanticism,  Theory,  Greece, in literature,  Schelling, friedrich wilhelm joseph von, 1775-1854,  Holderlin, friedrich, 1770-1843,  Knowledgekeats, john , 1795-1821,  Knowledgeshelley, percy bysshe , 1792-1822,  Knowledgewinckelmann, johann joachim , 1717-1768,  Knowledgehölderlin, friedrich , 1770-1843,  Schelling, friedrich wilhelm joseph von , 1775-1854,  English poetry--history and criticism,  English poetry--19th century--history and criticism,  Greek literature--history and criticism--theory, etc,  German literature--greek influences,  English poetry--greek influences,  Pr127 .f47 2000,  821/.7093238,  Classicism,  Civilization,  Greek influence,  Criticism and interpretation

People: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843),  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854),  Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768),  John Keats (1795-1821),  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Places: Greece

Times: 19th century