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The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be ac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Barbarism revisited Leiden, Netherlands
Otros Autores: Boletsi, Maria (Editor ), Moser, Christian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2015.
Colección:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 29.
Temas:
Civilization > Congresses.
Outsiders in art > Congresses.
Outsiders in literature > Congresses.
Civilisation > Congrès.
Étrangers dans la littérature > Congrès.
Civilization
Outsiders in art
Outsiders in literature
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material / Maria Boletsi and Christian Moser
  • Introduction / Christian Moser and Maria Boletsi
  • Barbarians: From the Ancient to the New World / François Hartog
  • Towards a Cultural History of Barbarism from the Eighteenth Century to the Present / Markus Winkler
  • Laughing (at the) Barbarians: On Barbarism and Humor in Homer and Herodotus / Daniel Wendt
  • On the Evil Side of Creation: Barbarians in Middle Dutch Texts / Clara Strijbosch
  • Naked Indians, Trousered Gauls: Montaigne on Barbarism / Paul J. Smith
  • The Conceptual History of Barbarism: What Can We Learn from Koselleck and Pocock? / Peter Vogt
  • Sublime Barbarism?: Affinities between the Barbarian and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics / Reinhard M. Möller
  • Staging the Barbarian: The Case of Voltaire's Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prophète / Madeleine Kasten
  • Liminal Barbarism: Renegotiations of an Ancient Concept in (Post-)Enlightenment Social Theory and Literature / Christian Moser
  • "The Seat of the Young, Loving Feelings, thus Delusionally, Barbarically -": Barbarism and the Revolutionary State in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea / Steven Howe
  • Trusting Barbarians?: Franz Grillparzer's The Golden Fleece and the Challenge to the Mythography of Empire / Tim Albrecht
  • Des künic Etzelen man: The Huns and their King in Fritz Lang's Classic Silent Film Die Nibelungen and in the Nibelungenlied / Elke Brüggen and Franz-Josef Holznagel
  • Barbarians and Their Cult: On Walter Benjamin's Concept of New Barbarism / Georgios Sagriotis
  • Barbarians Betwixt and Between: Figurations of the Barbarian in Elfriede Jelinek's The Children of the Dead / Anna-Maria Valerius
  • The Limes Mexicanicus or the 'Barbarians at the Gate': The Depiction of 'Southern Invaders' in American Film of the Twenty-First Century / Heidi Denzel de Tirado
  • Writing Designed Anxieties on Barbarism, Ornament, / Marjan Groot
  • Organizing Cultuur?Barbaar!: Some Problems of Creating Concepts Through Art / Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Looi van Kessel
  • Ultimi Barbarorum: Eloquence and Subjectivity in Twenty-First-Century Social Movements / Nikos Patelis
  • Waiting for the Barbarians after 9/11: Functions of a Topos in Liminal Times / Maria Boletsi
  • The Politics of Barbarism / Terry Eagleton
  • The Contributors / Maria Boletsi and Christian Moser
  • Index / Maria Boletsi and Christian Moser.

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