Name: Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a fin de Siecle (en Inglés)
SKU: 1562850
Price: 77290.00 CLP
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Author: Joan Dejean
ISBN: 9780226141381

portada Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a fin de Siecle (en Inglés)

Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a fin de Siecle (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Joan Dejean

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

236

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0226141381

ISBN13

9780226141381

Categorías

Literatura: historia y crítica

Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a fin de Siecle (en Inglés)

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As the end of the century approaches, many predict our fin de siècle will mirror the nineteenth-century decline into decadence. But a better model for the 1990s is to be found, according to Joan DeJean, in the culture wars of France in the 1690s—the time of a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. DeJean brilliantly reassesses our current culture wars from the perspective of that earlier fin de siècle (the first to think of itself as such), and rereads the seventeenth-century Quarrel from the vantage of our own warring "ancients" and "moderns." In so doing, DeJean shows that a fin de siècle taking place in the shadow of culture wars can be more a source of constructive cultural revolution than of apocalyptic gloom and doom. Just as the first fin de siècle's battle of the books served as the spark that set off the Enlightenment, introducing radically new sexual and social politics that laid the groundwork for modernity, so can our current culture wars result in radical, liberating changes—if we take an active stand against our own "ancients" who seek to stifle such reforms.