The Hellenistic aesthetic / Barbara Hughes Fowler.

By:

Fowler, Barbara Hughes, 1926- [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Wisconsin studies in classicsPublication details: Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, c1989.Description: xix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0299120406
0299120449

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

881.0109

Contents:

Craft and elegance -- The sweetness of nature -- The baroque -- The burlesque -- The grotesque -- Passion -- Pathos -- The pathetic fallacy -- The creatures -- Eroticism -- Archaizing -- Skenographia, skiagraphia, and phantasia.

Summary: "Barbara Hughes Fowler introduces us to The Hellenistic Aesthetic by encouraging us to attend carefully to its "sparkle and music", Hellenistic poetry brought to Western literature many of the qualities which we think of as modern: an interest in animals (especially pets), babies, children, women, and grotesques; common or working people and the tools of their trades; landscapes; cities; the passions of romantic love and of sinning; pathos; burlesque. The literature parallels the subject matter of the visual arts, where we find fisherman, hunchbacks, dancing dwarfs, drunken old women, women who have died in childbirth, kitchen utensils, and the expression of emotion in the faces of creatures as well as people." -- Back cover.

List(s) this item appears in: Anne Stewart's Collection

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 4 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	881.0109 FOW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000011014		Hadji, Athena - Sculpture

Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 201-213.

"Barbara Hughes Fowler introduces us to The Hellenistic Aesthetic by encouraging us to attend carefully to its "sparkle and music", Hellenistic poetry brought to Western literature many of the qualities which we think of as modern: an interest in animals (especially pets), babies, children, women, and grotesques; common or working people and the tools of their trades; landscapes; cities; the passions of romantic love and of sinning; pathos; burlesque. The literature parallels the subject matter of the visual arts, where we find fisherman, hunchbacks, dancing dwarfs, drunken old women, women who have died in childbirth, kitchen utensils, and the expression of emotion in the faces of creatures as well as people." -- Back cover.