Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present Series)
“This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is—there is no way to overemphasize this—an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring...
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The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. 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 18th-century aesthetics.
PrefaceIntroduction11Greece and the Invention of Culture: Winckelmann162The Silence of Greece: Keats523The Choice of Tragedy: From Keats to Schelling854The History of Freedom: From Aeschylus to Shelley1085The Time of Judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound1346The Recall of Thought: Holderlin158Notes201Index243
\ From the Publisher"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is—there is no way to overemphasize this—an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." —Carol Jacobs,State University of New York, Buffalo\ \
