1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009330640403321

Autore

Siewierska, Anna

Titolo

Person / Anna Siewierska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004

ISBN

0521772141

Descrizione fisica

XX, 327 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics

Disciplina

415

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

415 SIE 2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524866603321

Autore

Baird James

Titolo

Ishmael / James Baird

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

0-8018-0049-8

1-4214-3563-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 445 pages )

Soggetti

Symbolism in literature

Religion

Primitivism in literature

Literature, Modern

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Originally published in 1956.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1956. In Ishmael, Professor James Baird responds to the increasing secularization of Western civilization and the creation of what he calls "authentic primitivism." For Baird, the aesthetic austerity of Protestantism undermined the structure of symbols created by Catholicism. In the absence of a meaningful structure of cultural authority in Western civilization, "primary art" took on a quasi-religious role by connecting humans to a transcendent being. Ishmael describes a new system of art, beginning around 1850, that supplanted Christian symbolism. Baird examines writers who helped to create a modern authentic primitivism, with emphasis on Herman Melville, whom Baird sees as a locus of change for the cultural significance of primary art. Baird provides a social history and biography of writers who participated in the primary art movement from 1850 to 1950