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Mass theatre in Interwar Europe
Flanders and the Netherlands in an international perspective
2014 || Hardcover || Thomas Crombez e.a. || Universitaire Pers Leuven
Ideological heterogeneity in mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands.
In many European countries mass theatre was a widespread expression of
'community art' which became increasingly popular shortly before the First
World War. From Max Reinhardt's lavish open-air spectacles to socialist
workers' Laienspiel (lay theatre), theatre visionaries focused on ever larger
groups for entertainment as well as political agitation.
Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from
the...
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Natural Spectaculars
aspects of plutarch’s philosophy of nature
2015 || Hardcover || Michiel Meeusen e.a. || Universitaire Pers Leuven
The value of Plutarch's perception of physical reality and his attitude towards the natural spectacle.
Plutarch was very interested in the natural world around him, not only in terms of its elementary composition and physical processes, but also with respect to its providential ordering and 'wonders'. His writings teach us a lot about his perception of physical reality and about his attitude to the natural spectacle. He found his greatest inspiration in the ontological and epistemological fr...
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Hisclass
a Historical international Social Class Scheme
2011 || Hardcover || Marco van Leeuwen e.a. || Universitaire Pers Leuven
Social class schemes, contemporary as well as historical, always involve something of a mystery. While this book does not claim to have solved that mystery completely, it does shed significant light on it.
For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes but to use old ones. Yet presenting a new class scheme - HISCLASS - is exactly what this book does. Unlike existing historical schemes, HISCLASS is international, created for the purpose of making comparisons a...
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Recognizing Music as an Art Form
Friedrich Th. Vischer and German music criticism, 1848-1887
Hardcover || Barbara Titus || Universitaire Pers Leuven
The impact of Hegelian philosophy on 19th-century music criticism.
Music's status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an unparalleled influence on the entire nineteenth century. Hegel insisted that the content of a work of art should be grasped in concepts in order to establish its spiritual substantiality (Geistigkeit), and that no object, word or image could accurately represent the content and meaning of a musical work. In the mid-ninete...
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Regionalism and modernity / druk 1
architecture in Western Europe 1914-1940
2013 || Hardcover || Leen Meganck e.a. || Universitaire Pers Leuven