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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226289532
ISBN-13
9780226289533
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70967160
Product Key Features
Book Title
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Archaeology, Europe / Western, General, Aesthetics, Ancient & Classical, Historical, History / General
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Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
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Hardcover
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0.1 in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
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0.6 in
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LCCN
2008-053986
Dewey Edition
22
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Fascinating and consistently entertaining. . . . It is a tribute to the wit and clarity of Gere's style that she is able to explain all this without making the reader's brain ache., This is a simply wonderful book, expertly researched, written with panache, and consistently eye-opening. It brilliantly uncovers how the high priests of modernism--from Freud to Robert Graves to H.D.--were deeply engaged not just with the new discoveries of archaeology but also with a fantasy of ancient Crete--pacifist, sexually free, matriarchal--inaugurated by Sir Arthur Evans's dig at Knossos. This is cultural history at its very best., "In this original, most readable, and at times mesmerizing book, Cathy Gere provides an historical and intellectual context for Arthur Evans''s discovery and reconstruction of Knossos and Minoan civilization. . . . I think there is something of this wondrous quality in Gere''s ability to discovr links, connections, and underlying meanings in a dazzling array of aechaeological, literary, and artistic works as well as between past, present, and future."Nicoletta Momigliano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "[A] brilliant study of the role of Knossos in twentieth-century culture. . . . Gere writes with clarity and wit, but she never sacrifices the fascinating complexity of her tale to a simple story line."Mary Beard, New York Review of Books, "Cathy Gere writes with verve and clarity, and with Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism she offers a surprising juxtaposition of individual personalities and themes that gives us a new way of thinking about the cultural origins of some of the most interesting aspects of modern culture."<Robert Nye, Oregon State University, "Fascinating and consistently entertaining. . . . It is a tribute to the wit and clarity of Gere's style that she is able to explain all this without making the reader's brain ache."--Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement, "Cathy Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous."Benjamin Moser, Harper''s, "This is a simply wonderful book, expertly researched, written with panache, and consistently eye-opening. It brilliantly uncovers how the high priests of modernismfrom Freud to Robert Graves to H.D.were deeply engaged not just with the new discoveries of archaeology but also with a fantasy of ancient Cretepacifist, sexually free, matriarchalinaugurated by Sir Arthur Evans's dig at Knossos. This is cultural history at its very best."Simon Goldhill, "This is a simply wonderful book, expertly researched, written with panache, and consistently eye-opening. It brilliantly uncovers how the high priests of modernism-from Freud to Robert Graves to H.D.-were deeply engaged not just with the new discoveries of archaeology but also with a fantasy of ancient Crete-pacifist, sexually free, matriarchal-inaugurated by Sir Arthur Evans's dig at Knossos. This is cultural history at its very best."-Simon Goldhill, "Gere develops a stunning study of the cultural impact of Evans's interpretation of Minoan society as a pacifist haven inhabited by immigrants from Anatolia, Egypt, and Libya. . . . . Gere's aim is not to criticize or defend them. Instead, she attempts to understand the archaeologists, architects, artists, classicists, writers, and poets who reconstructed Minoan Crete in our time. And she does so brilliantly."-- Library Journal, "This is a wonderful, important, elegant, and well-written book. It constitutes a radical rereading of the archaeological process from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and it sheds new light both on the nature of archaeology at the time and on modernism as a philosophical and literary project. Different readers will be drawn to different aspects of Cathy Gere's story but all will find it exciting and worthwhile."Yannis Hamilakis, author of The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece, In this original, most readable, and at times mesmerizing book, Cathy Gere provides an historical and intellectual context for Arthur Evans's discovery and reconstruction of Knossos and Minoan civilization. . . . I think there is something of this wondrous quality in Gere's ability to discover links, connections, and underlying meanings in a dazzling array of archaeological, literary, and artistic works as well as between past, present, and future., "In this original, most readable, and at times mesmerizing book, Cathy Gere provides an historical and intellectual context for Arthur Evans''s discovery and reconstruction of Knossos and Minoan civilization. . . . I think there is something of this wondrous quality in Gere''s ability to discovr links, connections, and underlying meanings in a dazzling array of archaeological, literary, and artistic works as well as between past, present, and future."-Nicoletta Momigliano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "This is a wonderful, important, elegant, and well-written book. It constitutes a radical rereading of the archaeological process from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and it sheds new light both on the nature of archaeology at the time and on modernism as a philosophical and literary project. Different readers will be drawn to different aspects of Cathy Gere's story but all will find it exciting and worthwhile."--Yannis Hamilakis, author of The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece, "[A] brilliant study of the role of Knossos in twentieth-century culture. . . . Gere writes with clarity and wit, but she never sacrifices the fascinating complexity of her tale to a simple story line."--Mary Beard, New York Review of Books, "Overall, this is an important contribution to our understanding of the role of archaeology and related fields in shaping the modern image of the past."--Yannis Galanakis,Art Newspaper, "In this original, most readable, and at times mesmerizing book, Cathy Gere provides an historical and intellectual context for Arthur Evans''s discovery and reconstruction of Knossos and Minoan civilization. . . . I think there is something of this wondrous quality in Gere''s ability to discover links, connections, and underlying meanings in a dazzling array of archaeological, literary, and artistic works as well as between past, present, and future."-Nicoletta Momigliano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Cathy Gere writes with verve and clarity, and with Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism she offers a surprising juxtaposition of individual personalities and themes that gives us a new way of thinking about the cultural origins of some of the most interesting aspects of modern culture., Overall, this is an important contribution to our understanding of the role of archaeology and related fields in shaping the modern image of the past., "Fascinating and consistently entertaining. . . . It is a tribute to the wit and clarity of Gere's style that she is able to explain all this without making the reader's brain ache."-Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement, "Cathy Gere writes with verve and clarity, and with Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism she offers a surprising juxtaposition of individual personalities and themes that gives us a new way of thinking about the cultural origins of some of the most interesting aspects of modern culture."-Robert Nye, Oregon State University, "Cathy Gere writes with verve and clarity, and with Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism she offers a surprising juxtaposition of individual personalities and themes that gives us a new way of thinking about the cultural origins of some of the most interesting aspects of modern culture."Robert Nye, Oregon State University, "Gere develops a stunning study of the cultural impact of Evans's interpretation of Minoan society as a pacifist haven inhabited by immigrants from Anatolia, Egypt, and Libya. . . . . Gere's aim is not to criticize or defend them. Instead, she attempts to understand the archaeologists, architects, artists, classicists, writers, and poets who reconstructed Minoan Crete in our time. And she does so brilliantly."--Library Journal, "Fascinating and consistently entertaining. . . . It is a tribute to the wit and clarity of Gere's style that she is able to explain all this without making the reader's brain ache."Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement, "Overall, this is an important contribution to our understanding of the role of archaeology and related fields in shaping the modern image of the past."--Yannis Galanakis, Art Newspaper, This is a simply wonderful book, expertly researched, written with panache, and consistently eye-opening. It brilliantly uncovers how the high priests of modernism-from Freud to Robert Graves to H.D.-were deeply engaged not just with the new discoveries of archaeology but also with a fantasy of ancient Crete-pacifist, sexually free, matriarchal-inaugurated by Sir Arthur Evans's dig at Knossos. This is cultural history at its very best., In this original, most readable, and at times mesmerizing book, Cathy Gere provides an historical and intellectual context for Arthur Evans's discovery and reconstruction of Knossos and Minoan civilization. . . . I think there is something of this wondrous quality in Gere's ability to discover links, connections, and underlying meanings in a dazzling array of archaeological, literary, and artistic works as well as between past, present, and future., This merger of past and present is at the heart of Cathy Gere's richly textured and well-written cultural history. . . . The implications of this fascinating book extend far beyond the island that is its focus., Gere develops a stunning study of the cultural impact of Evans's interpretation of Minoan society as a pacifist haven inhabited by immigrants from Anatolia, Egypt, and Libya. . . . . Gere's aim is not to criticize or defend them. Instead, she attempts to understand the archaeologists, architects, artists, classicists, writers, and poets who reconstructed Minoan Crete in our time. And she does so brilliantly., "Cathy Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a geniuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous."--Benjamin Moser, Harper''s, Cathy Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous., "In this original, most readable, and at times mesmerizing book, Cathy Gere provides an historical and intellectual context for Arthur Evans''s discovery and reconstruction of Knossos and Minoan civilization. . . . I think there is something of this wondrous quality in Gere''s ability to discovr links, connections, and underlying meanings in a dazzling array of aechaeological, literary, and artistic works as well as between past, present, and future."-Nicoletta Momigliano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "Cathy Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous."-Benjamin Moser, Harper''s, [A] brilliant study of the role of Knossos in twentieth-century culture. . . . Gere writes with clarity and wit, but she never sacrifices the fascinating complexity of her tale to a simple story line., This is a wonderful, important, elegant, and well-written book. It constitutes a radical rereading of the archaeological process from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and it sheds new light both on the nature of archaeology at the time and on modernism as a philosophical and literary project. Different readers will be drawn to different aspects of Cathy Gere's story but all will find it exciting and worthwhile.
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939/.18
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction I. The Birth of Tragedy, 1822-1897 An Archaeology of Heroes A Prophecy of Tragedy What Ariadne Is II. Stand Up Tragedy, 1851-1899 The Dry Smell of Time Eastern Questions The Road to the Labyrinth Greek Defeat Reconstructing the Nation III. Ariadne's Lament Ariadne's Throne The Great Cretan Mother Ariadne's Dancing Floor The Making of a Goddess The Villa Ariadne Cretan Victory Ariadne in Chirico City IV. The Concrete Labyrinth, 1914-1935 The Throne Room Complex Captain of the Blacks Court Ladies Priest-King and Cowgirls Lost Boys The Lady of Sports The Magic Ring The Psyche Element Little Souls V. Psyche's Labyrinth, 1919-1949 Mythical Method The Decline of Crete Achilles' Shield Freudian Archaeology Psyche's Muse Crete on the Couch The Battle of Crete VI. The Rebirth of Comedy, 1942-1949 Psyche Reborn Paradise before Eve Psyche Rewritten The Consort New Crete VII. The Birth of Farce, 1950-2000 Romantic Revivals The White Goddess Black Athena The Road Back to War Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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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., 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.
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