Peripheral Echoes: "Old" And "New" Worlds as Reciprocal Literary Mirrorings

In assessing in Western Civilization and World History (2003) the merits of the various temporal and territorial frames that different camps apply in their acts of retrospection, Stearns argues against going all the way back to the ancient Near East and Egypt or to ancient Greece and Rome as foundat...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Comparative literature 2006-09, Vol.58 (4), p.339-359
1. Verfasser:	GILLESPIE, GERALD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Christianity Civilization Cultural identity Culture Hope Humanism Literary Criticism Literary Theory Literature and Literary Studies Medieval literature Middle Ages Modernist art Renaissance Renaissance literature Renaissance period Western civilization World War II World wars
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Zusammenfassung:	In assessing in Western Civilization and World History (2003) the merits of the various temporal and territorial frames that different camps apply in their acts of retrospection, Stearns argues against going all the way back to the ancient Near East and Egypt or to ancient Greece and Rome as foundational, and favors instead regarding the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as the true crucible of the "West."
ISSN:	0010-4124 1945-8517
DOI:	10.1215/-58-4-339