Turning points : essays in the history of cultural expressions / Marshall Brown.

Author/creator Brown, Marshall, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
Descriptionxiv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Why style matters : the lessons of Taine's History of English literature -- The classic is the baroque : on the principle of Wölfflin's art history -- What's in a text? -- Deconstruction and Enlightenment -- Mozart and after : the revolution in musical consciousness -- Kant's misreading of Descartes -- Toward an archaeology of English Romanticism : Coleridge and Sarbiewski -- Romanticism and Enlightenment -- Origins of modernism : musical structures and narrative forms -- Unheard melodies : the force of form.
General noteCollection of previously published material.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-333) and index.
LCCN 96021910
ISBN0804727082 (cloth : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN81 .B695 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold