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Leisure in Art and Literature: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities

Autor Tom Winnifrith Editat de Michael Mallett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1992
The description or depiction of leisure activities has formed part of the subject matter of art and literature for a long time. This volume looks at funeral games in Homer, leisure as depicted in painting, and the part that literature played in promoting athleticism in public schools and Oxbridge.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349113552
ISBN-10: 1349113557
Pagini: 159
Ilustrații: XII, 159 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 1992
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Warwick Studies in the European Humanities

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; C.Barrett - Funeral Games of Homer and Vergil; T.J.Winnifrith - Leisure and Civilization in English Literature; E.Larrissy - Up Tails All: Leisure, Pleasure and Paranoia in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; G.Hyde - P.G.Wodehouse: The Case of Leisure as the Sole Topic of an Author's Output; S.J.S.Ickringill - Leisure in Western Painting; C.Barrett - Audiences, Art and Theatre: The Justification of Leisure and Images of the Eighteenth Century English Stage; S.West - Harold Abrahams: Athlete, Author and Amateur; J.Bromhead - 'To the Glory that was Greece': Classical Images in Public School Athletics; M.Tozer - Lamentable Barbarians and Pitiful Sheep: Rhetoric of Protest in Late Victorian and Edwardian 'Oxbridge'; J.A.Mangan