Knossos and the Prophets of ModernismUniversity of Chicago Press, 15/09/2010 - 288 páginas In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism. |
Índice
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I The Birth of Tragedy 18221897 | 17 |
II Standup Tragedy 18511899 | 49 |
III Ariadnes Lament 19001913 | 75 |
IV The Concrete Labyrinth 19141935 | 105 |
V Psyches Labyrinth 19191941 | 141 |
VI The Rebirth of Comedy 19421949 | 177 |
VII The Birth of Farce 19502000 | 209 |
Conclusion | 227 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 261 |
271 | |