This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something new in literature, the visual and performing arts, and many other cultural practices. It discusses the role that Aegeomania can play in our understanding of the Aegean Bronze Age and illustrates this with examples from the 1870s to the present, which include, among many others,
poems by Emma Lazarus, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Giorgos Seferis; novels by Kristmann Gudmundsson, Mary Renault, Don DeLillo, Zeruya Shalev, and Sally Rooney; Freudian psychoanalysis; sculptures by Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso; music by Harrison Birtwistle and the rock band Giant Squid; films by Robert Wise and Wolfang Petersen; elegant textiles and garments created by Josef Frank and Karl Lagerfeld. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
By:
Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Weight: 274g ISBN:9781009538930 ISBN 10: 1009538934 Series:Elements in The Aegean Bronze Age Pages: 94 Publication Date:21 November 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active