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Professing Classics : Between Germanosphere and Anglosphere (mid-19th-21st C. ).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Briggs, Ward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical philology.
- Educational exchanges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book, 'Professing Classics Between Germanosphere and Anglosphere', edited by Ward Briggs and Danuta Shanzer, explores the historical and academic exchanges between the German and English-speaking worlds in the field of Classics. Through a collection of 13 essays, it examines the journeys and contributions of classicists, philologists, and scholars over a period of 170 years. The book highlights how these scholars navigated academic landscapes across North America, the UK, and Europe, often in the face of political turmoil and persecution. It also discusses the impact of German academia on American scholarship and the evolution of classical studies through biographies and historical accounts. The volume is intended for an academic audience interested in classical studies, philology, and the history of scholarship. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Schliemann’s American Training?
- Teutonomania: Gildersleeve, Goethe and the Southern Experience in Germany
- Eduard Wölfflin and his amerikanische Schule
- Germanic Perspectives on Ben-Hur
- “Na nous verrons” – Alfred Gudeman and the Imagines Philologorum
- The Impact of Viennese Scholarship on Medieval Latin Research in Ireland: Ludwig Bieler
- Facts, Simulacra, and Pluralistic Theories: The Transplanted Career of Otto Brendel (1901–1973)
- Eduard Fraenkel in Germany, England, Italy, and Almost in the US
- Viktor Pöschl’s Virgil and Fascist Aesthetics
- Fluchtpunkt Italien – Hoffnung USA: Deutsche Altertumswissenschaftler im italienischen Exil
- Jochem Schindler: Wien – Harvard – Wien
- Mein Iter Americanum – Erfahrungen mit der Philologie und mit Universitäten auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks
- Changing Places
- Afterword
- List of Illustrations
- Index to the English-Language Contributions
- Index to the German-Language Contributions Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9783111432892
- 3111432890
- OCLC:
- 1458589741
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